2026-08-14
AI’s Best ROI Right Now Is Fixing Old Code, Not Writing New Code
Every AI product demo I sit through starts the same way: an empty prompt box, a request in plain English, and a working app a few minutes later. It's a genuinely impressive party trick. It's also, I'd argue, the least interesting thing happening in enterprise AI right now. The more consequential work is happening somewhere far less glamorous: inside fifteen-year-old code bases nobod [...]
2026-08-14
Your KV Cache Doesn’t Have a Bit Problem. It Has a Geometry Problem.
At identical 2-bit precision, one decision about which axis you quantize along swings a benchmark score from 2.88 to 63.53. Keys and values need opposite treatment — and the reason is in the attention equation, not the hardware. Take Llama-2-13B. Group its key-value cache by a quantization group size of 32 into two bits, while leaving everything else in place — same model, same bit budget, sam [...]
2026-08-14
When AI Is Right and the Process Is Wrong
Imagine a common scenario in financial services. A team deploys AI to review contracts: hundreds of pages, repetitive clauses, and routine work that normally takes employees days. The model identifies the risks and references to correct paragraphs. Yet the output doesn't add up. It turns out the problem is in the contracts folder, where files sit side by side named contract_v1.docx, contract_ [...]
2026-08-14
The Shift from AI Capability to AI Control
A series of high-profile incidents involving frontier AI providers has left businesses asking a question that, until recently, many hadn't seriously considered. What happens when the technology you've built your operations around is no longer entirely under your control? First came Anthropic's shutdown, ordered by the US Government with just 90 minutes' notice. Then came Grok B [...]
2026-08-14
Private US companies can now run cyber operations abroad. State-backed hackers are excluded
Donald Trump signed the memorandum on 12 August and the White House published it that night. It runs to five sections. A National Coordination Center creates and manages the programme. Two Program Executive Directors oversee it. The Attorney General designates one, and the Secretary of Homeland Security designates the other. What the White House says […]<br /> This story continues at The N [...]
