Claude Skills and Subagents: Escaping the Prompt Engineering Hamster Wheel
This post reflects the state of Claude Skills, MCP, and subagents as of February 2026. AI moves fast,…
Inside Arena, the unofficial scoreboard for the AI model wars
Welcome back to Neural Notes, a weekly column where I look at how AI is influencing Australia. In…
China aims for twin-track use of Nvidia H200 amid back door fears
Beijing appears to be softening its stance on Nvidia’s H200 graphics processing units (GPUs), with Chinese policymakers and…
Wētā FX and AWS to Develop AI Tools for VFX Artists
Wētā FX and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have just announced an agreement to explore development of artificial intelligence…
‘Why buy the cow?’ IAB Tech Lab warns publishers over AI traffic losses
The head of the IAB Tech Lab has urged Australian media owners to join forces and collectively block…
The ‘Dead Internet Theory’—Noted By Altman And Ohanian—Explained
Topline Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman have warned on social media in recent weeks…
IBM CEO On Growing Channel Revenue, Quantum Computing Opportunities, And Why ‘AI Is Not Magic’
Arvind Krishna, during an interview with CRN, says AI provides the channel with opportunities in customer service, software…
Home-grown heroes: how Huawei and DeepSeek are helping China break reliance on US chips
When Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek unveiled an updated foundational model late in August, investors in Nvidia were…
Google’s Most Expensive “Traitor” and Transformer Author Unveil Next Step for AGI After Return at $2.7 Billion Sky
In the AI boom, what is the most “coveted” thing for large models? Is it computing power, storage,…
What makes China confident enough to ban microchips made by US firm Nvidia?
Beijing’s decision this week to ban Chinese companies from using microchips made by US firm Nvidia indicates the…
GPT-5’s System Prompt Just Leaked. Here’s What We Learned
OpenAI’s system prompt for GPT-5 just leaked, giving us a picture under the hood of the company’s latest…
Shanghai targets 5 new data centres in 2025 as China boosts AI computing capacity
Shanghai aims to complete at least five new large-scale data centres by the end of the year to…