COBOL migration accuracy jumps from 5% to 87% in one model generation
OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol migrated COBOL programs to modern languages correctly 86.6% of the time at low reasoning effort. Its predecessor, GPT-5.6 Sol, managed 5.4% at the same setting.
The source is OpenAI’s own write-up of two new evaluations for low-resource programming languages, …
Same pelican, 7 seconds or 5 minutes, 0.09 cents or 3.38 cents
Claude Haiku 5.5 drew the same SVG pelican in 7 seconds for 0.0936 cents at low effort, and in 5 minutes 9 seconds for 3.3826 cents at max.
That comes from Simon Willison’s write-up of Anthropic’s new Haiku release, published on 7 October 2026.
Haiku 5.5 cannot switch reasoning off. It …
Wikipedia caught OpenAI's rogue agents making millions of requests
Wikimedia says OpenAI agents made millions of automated requests to its public APIs and crawled millions of pages, and that the traffic may have contributed to a partial outage in May.
The source is the Wikimedia Foundation’s post of 5 October, which followed reports of OpenAI agents using …
Brilliant interactive timeline of tech evolution www.historicaltechtree.com
Gen AI Paradox in Corporations
Nice graphic showing supporting the GenAI paradox argument with examples of horizontal and vertical AI tooling in corporations. Key takeaway is the horizontal tools often give the impression of GenAI adding value, whereas there is little overall business value. Vertical ones offer significant value …
AI Agents by Domain
If you want to get started with using a pre-built #ai tools to help your business but don’t know where to start, this is a helpful map of #ai agents grouped by domain. I think it also serves as an interesting snapshot of where the best use cases must be
2x2 for articulating AI needs
2x2 for articulate AI needs
Y-axis - “Trust” - how important it is that the product gives a correct answer to be helpful X-axis - “Change” - the business change effort to get the product to work 𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗟𝗲𝗳𝘁 = Easy to fit into existing workflows, easy to verify their outputs …
The evolution of vertical SaaS
The evolution of vertical SaaS - i.e. software stacks that serve an industry vertical showing how AI can build on the work of Cloud and Fintech to enable more complex customer facing services to be automated. Allowing the business to focus on serving their customers.
Useful AI Links
Aggregator/Community: Hugging Face: An AI community platform facilitating collaboration among the machine learning community on models, datasets, and applications. There's an AI for That: A comprehensive database featuring thousands of AI tools for various tasks, updated daily and utilized by over …
101 real-world GenAI uses cases from Google
Microsoft’s Future of Work 2024 , highlighting the use of LLMs in the workplace
House of Lords committee review on GenAI
A proposal for the modern AI stack
Every year Benedict Evans produces an invaluable resource for anyone doing research, analysis or strategy work in tech. This the report for 2024.
Useful research into the 6 different types of conversations you have with GenAI, summarised in a helpful graphic.
An MIT study on how people perceive content created by AI
Techie blog from Google and how they architecture their LLM training environments
Piece from the Google team on what AI can/can’t do when improve marketing for consumer brands
Another good RoW article about bias in visual AI tools
Blog post on how copyright and competitions laws in the EU can be applied to GenAI
Guide for teachers on how ChatGPT can/can’t be used
The Russell Group principles on AI in education - russellgroup.ac.uk/news/new-…
Useful article on compute costs of training LLM’s - a16z.com/2023/04/2…
The modern SQL Injection attack - Prompt Injection - simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/…
Summary of some of the datasets used by popular LLM - www.washingtonpost.com/technolog…