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INDEPENDENT IDEAS. PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE.A FIELD GUIDE TO WHAT COMES NEXT

A NEW PERSPECTIVE

THE NEXT
CHAPTER
OF AI.

The ideas, tools and people
shaping what comes next.

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THE SHORT READ

01

What workplace AI studies actually show

02

Build your first AI agent without code

03

What AI agent platforms disclose about permissions

Top stories

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A broken agent path inspected across context, tools, permissions and evaluation.
AI agents / Analysis

Why AI agents fail, and how to diagnose the failure

Trace a bad answer back through the run before you fix it.

Three abstract assistant forms meeting at a central decision compass.
AI models / Comparison

Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Gemini: choosing an assistant

Three assistants compared on price, context, tools and data terms.

A layered regulatory map showing risk tiers and a path through obligations.
AI & society / Explainer

The EU AI Act explained

Risk tiers, roles and deadlines in Europe's AI law.

This week in AI

Five big ideas to get your bearings. Our launch reading list.

01AI models

Smaller models. More focused possibilities.

02AI agents

From answering questions to taking action.

03AI at work

Better workflows begin with better questions.

04Creative AI

A new set of tools for the imagination.

05AI & society

The human questions behind the technology.

AI explained

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Layers of language fragments flowing through a prediction lens into an ordered sequence.
AI models / Explainer

What is a large language model?

How the system behind AI assistants learns and writes its answers.

A question retrieving relevant sources before a grounded answer is generated.
AI models / Explainer

What is RAG? Retrieval-augmented generation explained

How AI looks things up before answering, and where it breaks.

A more useful working day

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START HERE · AI AT WORK

A little less busywork.
A little more thinking.

Find a useful first task, decide what good looks like, and keep a human in the loop.

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