You have an AI chatbot write a piece of text, copy it into an email and send it off. What you don't see: the phrasing of that text may contain an invisible pattern that reveals AI was involved. Such a pattern is called a watermark. A watermark in AI text is an invisible statistical pattern that the language model leaves behind in its own word choices. Since 2 August 2026, the European AI Act has required providers of generative AI to mark AI-generated content in a machine-readable way....

Last week the Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new model, Kimi K3. With 2.8 trillion parameters it is the largest open model ever built, and in benchmarks it scores among the very best in the world, just behind the top models from OpenAI and Anthropic. On tasks such as coding it even wins in some tests. The real surprise is not only that Kimi K3 was made by a startup that is just three years old, but also in how the AI model works: it never switches on all of its parameters at once. For...

Imagine you no longer buy software but work. You no longer pay for access to a tool, but for the job once it is done. It is one of the biggest shifts in the software industry since Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) arrived. Until recently, software was billed per user, per 'seat'. As long as a program was a tool that helped a person work faster or better, that made sense: more users, more licences, more revenue. But AI models are getting so good that they do the work themselves. And once the AI...