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EU AI labels: not the „label that says it all“

The transparency obligations in Article 50 of the EU AI Act started to apply on August 2, 2026. That day, the European Commission account on X posted: A quick fact check confirmed: the claim “The label says it all” is, at best, simplified. The Commission’s own page says that not all AI-generated or manipulated content needs to be labelled. The i... Read more...

Conversion problems in AI web search

While testing new UI responsiveness changes in MyChatty, I ran a prompt that I know will trigger web search and for which I know the answer: “Who is Nils Durner?” Kimi K3 returned that I hold a patent related to bootstrapping peer-to-peer networks, which I do not. The ingredients for this error come from my ORCID record, a public profile for lin... Read more...

The OpenAI “rogue AI” that wasn’t

Mainstream media coverage of OpenAI models hacking into Hugging Face read like science fiction this week: Austria’s ORF headlined it “AI breaks out and hacks another company’s platform”, Deutsche Welle said a model “went rogue”, TIME asked how OpenAI “lost control” of a model. And Fortune had the models “autonomously decide” to hack another comp... Read more...

Amazon Nova team disbanded?

Reuters reports that “Amazon cut jobs in ​its artificial general intelligence group”: "We’re sharpening our focus on the ​initiatives that matter most for customers, so we can move ​faster on what counts. That focus means some difficult decisions, including eliminating some ‌roles ⁠within parts of our AGI organization." "We’re sharpening our foc... Read more...

MyChatty - frontier GenAI at little cost

If you’re not ready to shell out ~20€ each month for AI access, your options are limited. There are free tiers of ChatGPT or Claude AI, but the models that power these entry levels are never the most powerful ones. What I wanted for myself: - diverse providers, so I can select whatever’s leading currently diverse providers, so I can select whate... Read more...