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Coverage of frontier AI models, policy, research, and the systems shipping into the real world.

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Every AI acronym you will see in 2026, explained in one sentence each

The full reference. 70+ terms, organised by category, one sentence each. Bookmark this and stop pretending you know what RAG, RLHF, MoE, FLOPs, or KV cache actually mean.

Faizan Khan·June 21, 2026·7 min read

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I tested every major AI to write Urdu — here's which one actually understands it

Five frontier models, three honest Urdu tests: translation, original prose, and Roman-Urdu-to-Nastaliq transliteration. One model won decisively. One model failed in a way that surprised me. The full results, with samples.

Faizan Khan·Jun 17, 2026·8 min

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Anthropic ships Deep Thinking mode for Claude 4.7, sets the bar for reasoning compute

Claude Pro users now get a toggle that lets the model spend up to 30 minutes on a single query. We tested it against GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro on hard math, code, and policy questions. The results were uneven, and the bill was not.

Faizan Khan·May 13, 2026·3 min

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What is RAG? A builder's field guide to retrieval-augmented generation in 2026

Retrieval-augmented generation is the most useful AI technique most builders still don't understand. Here's what it is, when to use it, when not to, and the architecture choices that actually matter.

Faizan Khan·May 11, 2026·7 min

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How to rank in Google AI Overviews in 2026: a builder's playbook

AI Overviews now appear on roughly 47% of US search queries and 38% of UK queries. They are quietly the most important SEO change since featured snippets. Here is what's actually working in 2026, based on testing on our own properties.

Faizan Khan·May 10, 2026·6 min

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