Eleven Models in Twenty Days: How to Choose When Everything Changes Weekly
New models now ship faster than anyone can independently test them. Here is how to pick a tool when the leaderboard is stale before you finish reading it.
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New models now ship faster than anyone can independently test them. Here is how to pick a tool when the leaderboard is stale before you finish reading it.
Through the summer of 2026, price per token fell across nearly every major provider. Here is what actually changed and when it is worth acting on.
A clear list of current limitations is more useful than another list of capabilities, and it changes more slowly.
Not one global framework but a patchwork of national rules with different definitions and different obligations.
Text-only systems could not touch most real-world work, because most real-world information is not text.
Generation became nearly free. Verification did not, and it is where the actual expense now sits.
The skill of coaxing models with clever phrasing is becoming obsolete, which is what good tooling is supposed to do.
Detection tools produce false accusations at rates that make them unusable. The alternative approach is proving origin instead.
Models that fit on a laptop now handle real work. Not the hardest work, but considerably more than a year ago.
Assistants that see your screen and files are shipping at the system level. That changes the privacy question fundamentally.