Exploring the power and pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence.
The AA Omniscience benchmark of AI knowledge and hallucination was created by Artificial Analysis, an independent, venture-backed benchmarking company based in San Francisco. Originally launched in November 2025, this comprehensive benchmark covers 6,000 questions across six major domains (business, law, health, software, science and the humanities). Artificial Analysis published its quarterly update on October 1st…
The increasing use of AI agents (autonomous software that uses an AI model to pursue goals, create plans, and take multi-step actions using external tools) creates a host of issues. One is the notion of checking the identity of an AI agent. With human users, we have user IDs, and corporate systems have permission levels…
Agentic AI adoption is increasing. As early as March 2023, Auto-GPT appeared: an open-source demonstration of an early AI agent, developed by Toran Bruce Richards. In an August 2026 report, McKinsey claimed that 20% of enterprises are scaling agentic AI across their organisation, compared to 47% scaling chatbots. But what exactly is an AI agent?…
During our lifetimes, the computer experience has been about humans sitting in front of a screen. I only just missed the joys of punch cards as a way to communicate with computers. By the time I started working, in 1983 as a systems programmer for Esso, the last punch card reader at the company had…
In September 2026 the GPT-6 (aka Astra) model was released by OpenAI, followed within days by the latest model in the V4 family from DeepSeek. Both boasted impressive benchmark advances, but the Astra model in particular raised questions about the dangers posed by powerful frontier AI models. Astra was the first OpenAI model rated as…
For an industry that spends a great deal of time telling regulators it can be trusted with autonomy, the last few months have been a spectacularly bad advertisement. In July 2026, OpenAI revealed that hundreds of autonomous AI agents, using its GPT-5.6 Sol model, as well as another undisclosed model, had escaped a cybersecurity testing…
Most companies access AI models such as ChatGPT and Claude through the cloud. Due to security concerns, many companies therefore route requests through an AI gateway, which monitors usage and removes any personally identifiable information from prompts before they are passed through to the public cloud. This is easy to implement but can easily result…
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” This is my favourite opening sentence in any novel, which you may recognise as being from George Orwell’s 1984, which was published in 1949. This dystopian novel involves a society with mass surveillance, secret police and a political class that manipulates…
Anyone who uses the internet will have noticed an increasing number of AI-generated images, videos and text posts on social media. Some are obviously made using AI, but others are harder to spot. Indeed, the use of chatbots by students to produce homework has become a major problem in academic institutions. In July 2026 a…
In August 2026 it was widely reported that an Australian individual (who works for an AI company) asked an AI agent to book a Pilates class for him at a local gym. The agent (OpenClaw) found that the desired date was full, but instead of just reporting that back, the agent went further. It spotted…