Artificial Intelligence
Articles under the Artificial Intelligence category.
Training Data Finally Becomes an Asset Class, For Real
A burst of licensing deals and new provenance tools just turned training data into a market with price, quality grades, and custody rules. Here is what changes for model quality, evaluations, procurement, and the startups now in pole position.
The Million-Token Turn: How Products Rethink Memory and State
This week, million-token context windows moved from lab demos into everyday pricing tiers. That shift changes how we design software. Less brittle search, more persistent work memory, clearer tool traces, and new guardrails built for recall at scale.
This Week, Phones and PCs Make AI Local by Default
A wave of new devices and OS updates just pushed multimodal AI onto the edge by default. Small 8–20B models now run on NPUs, enabling private RAG, live speech-to-speech, and ambient agents with lower latency and new battery rules.
EU AI Act Sets a New Floor for GenAI Transparency This Week
Europe’s new rules for general‑purpose AI switch on now, turning model cards, data summaries, energy disclosures, risk evals, and provenance into shipping requirements. Here is how builders can turn compliance into speed and distribution.