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When AI Runs Its Own Retrospective
Something quietly strange is happening to the release calendar. Not long ago, a major AI model arrived every six to twelve months. Now the gap is measured in weeks. The name for where this is heading is recursive self-improvement, or RSI. The idea is old, a mathematician sketched it in…
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A Practical Starting Point for AI Governance
A customer described a situation to me recently which I also observed in a lot of organisations right now, even if it doesn’t always get named out loud. Inside their organization, two camps had formed. One team wanted to bring AI in quickly, get tools into people’s hands, automate real…
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The τ (Tau) Law
Huawei just dropped a single Greek letter into the global chip conversation, and the industry hasn’t stopped talking about it since. On 25/05/2026, Huawei’s chip division head He Tingbo took the stage at the IEEE International Circuits and Systems Symposium and formally announced the τ (pronounced “tau”) Law. The claim…
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MiniMax
MiniMax is a multimodal AI foundation model company based in Shanghai, China, with a declared mission to deliver “Intelligence with Everyone.” Where most frontier AI labs obsess over a single flagship language model, MiniMax has quietly built one of the most comprehensive multimodal stacks in the industry covering text, speech,…
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Qwen
Qwen is an open-source, frontier-class AI platform developed by Alibaba Group’s dedicated AI research team. As the generative AI space became saturated with proprietary Western models priced for enterprise budgets, Qwen emerged as the world’s most downloaded open model family, the serious developer’s alternative to paying a premium for black-box…