Horizon Lens — Local AI: choosing a job before choosing hardware
Choose the result before the machine Imagine wanting to organise a collection of family photographs. You could buy a computer advertised for AI, install a...
Horizon Lens — What makes a useful home robot?
Begin with an unfinished chore Imagine a small robot carrying a basket of clean towels from the utility room to a bedroom. It sounds simple until you picture...
Horizon Lens — How to read an AI benchmark without being fooled
Find the question hiding inside the score A headline says an AI system is twice as good. Before deciding whether that matters, ask: twice as good at what? A...
Horizon Lens — Where does your AI data actually go?
Follow the information, not the label Imagine using an AI assistant to turn meeting notes into a list of actions. You open an app on your laptop, select a...
Horizon Lens Evergreen — An AI agent you can rely on
Start with a job you can check Imagine asking an AI agent to prepare a weekly project report. It reads notes, identifies unfinished work and produces a tidy...
Horizon Lens — 17 September 2026
Snap’s new assistant reaches beyond its glasses Snap has introduced Specs Intelligence, an assistant intended to anticipate useful information from connected...
Horizon Lens — 16 September 2026
An advert can now become a conversation OpenAI announced on 16 September that it is testing Sponsored Agents with selected advertisers in the United States....
Horizon Lens — 15 September 2026
An agent that succeeds once may still fail the same task tomorrow IBM researchers have published a useful distinction for anyone running an automated...
Horizon Lens — 14 September 2026
A tractor repair demo shows both the promise and limits of guided maintenance A hands-on report published by Ars Technica, originally from WIRED, puts John...
Horizon Lens — 13 September 2026
A robot dog brings the gap between a demo and daily use into view A 12 September Ars Technica hands-on account offers a useful counterweight to polished...
Horizon Lens — 12 September 2026
Coding agents need to show what they tested An 11 September OpenAI case study describes Cognition using GPT-6 Astra to help Devin test the software it...
Horizon Lens — 11 September 2026
Slack puts small AI-built tools inside the conversation Slack is bringing AI-generated dashboards, reports and other interactive tools into chat. The Verge...
Horizon Lens — 10 September 2026
A shared browser attack exposes the gap before updates arrive Ars Technica reports that at least four hacking groups have used BlueMoon, an exploit kit...
Horizon Lens — 9 September 2026
A genome atlas helps researchers decide what to test next Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a resource containing predictions for nine billion...
Horizon Lens — 8 September 2026
AI moves onto the building site—with practical questions attached A fresh TechCrunch interview with former Opendoor chief Eric Wu examines an AI business...
Horizon Lens — 7 September 2026
OpenAI reports faster research—and harder oversight In two posts published on 6 September, OpenAI offered a striking combination: evidence of growing...
Horizon Lens — 6 September 2026
AI agents get closer to a home on your own computer Running an AI agent on your own hardware is becoming easier to organise. In its 3 September announcement,...
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Measuring benchmark optimisation in speech recognition Hugging Face published a report on benchmark optimisation in speech recognition, offering a current...
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Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy...
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Measuring benchmark optimisation in speech recognition Hugging Face published a report on benchmark optimisation in speech recognition, offering a current...