AI Insights & Research
Practical, hype-free analysis of the AI patterns and platforms that matter to growing businesses. 10 articles across 5 topics: AI Agents, AI Architecture, Data & BI, Cloud, Governance & Risk. Latest: The Fly Brain Test: What 166,700 Neurons Teach About Small AI and AI Hype.
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· AI Architecture · 11 min read
A fly dodges your newspaper with 166,700 neurons, now fully mapped. We rebuilt its escape reflex in the page, tried to break it, and turned the results into a five-question AI claim check.
· AI Architecture · 12 min read
Desert Ant's AI models run on a phone, laptop or browser tab from 2 MB, free to 100,000 devices. Six SMB jobs they fit, costs against cloud APIs, the limits, and a live demo.
· Governance & Risk · 13 min read
71% of UK staff have used unapproved AI at work and 96% of executives think they can see it. What the ICO, NCSC and EU AI Act expect, and a four-week audit that works.
· Data & BI · 13 min read
AWS bought the company behind DuckDB for the 90% of queries that fit in a terabyte. Why agents and DuckDB fit together, where the limits are, and a live engine you can query in the page.
· AI Agents · 12 min read
DHH's Arch-based Linux has $10m of backing and 100,000 downloads a week. The three design decisions that set it apart, and what its security fixes teach about auto-approving agents.
· Cloud · 11 min read
Google Cloud grew 82% last quarter and renamed half its products in April. The four stages of a real engagement, the UK cost traps, and seven questions to ask before you sign.
· AI Architecture · 10 min read
Most AI budgets pay frontier prices for tasks a small model handles as well. The pricing maths behind model routing, and a small model you can run in your browser.
· AI Agents · 9 min read
Block's open-source workspace gives AI agents their own identity and permissions. How Buzz compares to Slack, OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, and how to pilot it without betting the business.
· AI Architecture · 8 min read
Google's Open Knowledge Format asks whether your AI needs a vector database or a well-kept wiki. Where OKF beats RAG, where RAG still wins, and the hybrid we recommend.
· AI Agents · 6 min read
How enterprises combine the AutoResearch paradigm with the open-source OpenClaw agent framework to run model training without a researcher in the loop.
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