The New AI Models Don’t Talk. They Decide.
Cloudflare, Perplexity and Amazon's Strands all shipped "decision models" on Oct. 1. They return probabilities instead of prose, and all of them…
Catherine Crowe
Contributor, AI Explained
Catherine Crowe covers AI explained for prompt/power: the plain-English guides that break down how the technology works, what the jargon means and what it changes for everyday people. Originally from Canada, she writes from New Zealand.
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Astra, Sol, Argon, Mythos: A Field Guide to AI Model Names
Which tier is the flagship, which is the cheap workhorse and which is locked behind an access program, for OpenAI, Google, Anthropic…
How AI Agents Actually Work: A Plain-English Guide
Strip away the marketing and an AI agent is simple: a model that can take actions, see what happens and decide what's…
6 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About the 2026 AI Boom
The loudest AI takes of 2026 are 'it changes everything' and 'it's all a bubble.' Both are wrong in checkable ways. Six…