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Gender Bias in AI: Why Language Models Speak in a Male Voice
How every language model ended up speaking in the same calm, masculine voice, and why hundreds of millions of women hear that voice today
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The Observer's Position: How Anthropic Is Preparing for a Trillion-Dollar IPO
The selling of expectations has reached a new level: artificial intelligence has learned to inflate its own price with uncommon skill. We break down the anatomy of the year's most talked-about listing and show how trillions of dollars appear inside a closed ecosystem of tech giants
AI Models in Fall 2026: An Honest Comparison Using Independent Benchmarks
There are now so many models, updated at such a pace, that making sense of this zoo inside a maze is getting harder by the day
What Feeds the Dragon: AI Is Buying the Data of Dead Companies
The open web ran out. Now AI is shopping the bankruptcy auctions
Love in the Time of LLMs: A Romance Novelist's Experience With the Anthropic Suit
Recent court cases are testing the legality of training AI on copyrighted work. It's a complicated issue, and so are the ethics
AI Token Cost: What Is a Token — and How Every Model Games the Count
Complaints about opaque AI pricing are flooding social media. Which ones hold up to scrutiny and which are just users' overactive imaginations? How do models slip past their own published rate cards? How do usage limits actually work, and why do companies benefit from keeping the explanations as vague as possible?
Wall Street Hallucinations: How OpenAI's Legal Advisors Brought Invented Precedents Into Court
A $15 billion lawsuit was supposed to take down a crypto cartel built on a network of private prisons, but to beat a real monster, New York's finest armed themselves with AI-generated fiction. Here’s how the self-appointed ethics experts on artificial intelligence walked straight into their own trap — and why this farcical failure exposed a systemic vulnerability at the heart of the justice system.
LLM Context Window: How 10 Million Tokens Fool You
Llama 4 Scout promises to read 15,000 pages, but in practice loses the thread by page 60, a record for the gap between official claims and reality. Meta is selling context window size instead of actual comprehension, and here's what to do if you're the kind of person who feeds long texts into a chat.
Gender Bias in AI: Why Language Models Speak in a Male Voice
How every language model ended up speaking in the same calm, masculine voice, and why hundreds of millions of women hear that voice today
Claude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini for Writing: Which AI Writes Best in 2026?
Long-form prose, essays, translation, poetry — four tasks in which LLMs can break along four different seams. We examine where each model breaks, and why, when choosing between GPT, Gemini and Claude, you should pick all.
AI Wants Your Pension: How Larry Fink and BlackRock Plan to Spend Trillions from Your Pocket
G7 governments are drowning in debt, power grids are buckling, and data centers are consuming electricity on an industrial scale. The world's largest investment firm says the solution is taking the money from people who saved it for retirement — you. We break down how the scheme works, who profits from it, and what happens to your savings when the next bubble bursts
The End of the Link Era
The Raw Story vs. OpenAI case, SearchGPT, and why it's not journalism losing the AI search game — it's journalism's basement
