Articles by Fanny Engriana
Stanford Just Proved Your AI Chatbot Is a Yes-Man — Here Are 5 Tools That Actually Push Back
A new Stanford study published in Science proves AI chatbots are systematically sycophantic. I tested 5 tools that actually challenge your thinking instead of a...
CERN Is Running AI Models Burned Into Silicon Chips — And It Changes How We Should Think About Edge Inference
CERN uses tiny AI models compiled directly into FPGA silicon to filter LHC collision data in under 50 nanoseconds. Here is why their approach matters for enterp...
OpenAI Just Killed Sora — And Disney Walked Away from a Billion-Dollar Deal in the Same Week
OpenAI shut down Sora, Disney exited its billion-dollar deal, and the AI video generation market just changed overnight. Here is what happened and the 5 best al...
Someone Just Ran a 400 Billion Parameter AI Model on an iPhone 17 Pro — And the Real Story Is More Nuanced Than the Headlines Suggest
A developer ran a 400 billion parameter AI model on an iPhone 17 Pro at 0.6 tokens per second. The headline is impressive but the real story is more nuanced.
Researchers Just Found Eight Ways to Hack AWS Bedrock — And Most AI Teams Have No Idea They Are Exposed
The XM Cyber threat research team identified eight validated attack vectors inside AWS Bedrock, from log theft to agent hijacking to guardrail degradation. Here...
A Guy Built a Custom C Engine That Runs a 397 Billion Parameter AI Model on a Regular MacBook — Here Is How Flash-Moe Actually Works
Flash-Moe is a pure C/Metal inference engine that runs Qwen3.5-397B on a MacBook Pro with 48GB RAM at 4.4 tokens per second by streaming expert weights from SSD...
WordPress Just Handed AI Agents the Keys to 43 Percent of the Internet — And Most People Missed the Announcement
WordPress.com now lets AI agents draft, publish, manage comments, fix SEO metadata, and restructure entire sites through natural language commands via MCP. Here...
How Karpathy's Autoresearch Agent Used 16 GPUs to Run 910 Experiments in 8 Hours — And What That Actually Means for the Rest of Us
What happens when you give an autonomous AI research agent 16 GPUs instead of one? It runs 910 experiments, discovers hardware arbitrage, and beats sequential s...
Duplicate 3 Layers in a 24B LLM and Logical Deduction Jumps from 0.22 to 0.76 — No Training Required
A researcher duplicated 3 specific layers in Devstral-24B and boosted logical deduction from 0.22 to 0.76 — no training, no weight changes. Here is how LLM Ci...
Mistral Forge Just Launched — And It Could Change How Enterprises Build Custom AI Models
Mistral AI launched Forge for enterprise custom AI model training. I break down what it does, who is using it (ASML, ESA, Ericsson), and how it compares to Open...
Mistral Just Released an AI Agent That Mathematically Proves Your Code Is Correct — Here Is How Leanstral Compares to Every Other AI Coding Tool
A detailed comparison of Mistral Leanstral against Copilot, Cursor, Devin, and Q Developer. Explores how AI-powered formal verification differs from code genera...
67 Percent of CISOs Cannot See Their Own AI Systems — Here Is the Enterprise AI Security Stack That Actually Works in 2026
Pentera's 2026 report reveals 67% of CISOs have limited AI visibility and zero have full visibility. Here is the practical AI security stack — from free open-...
A 2015 Visual Guide to Machine Learning Just Hit 301 Points on Hacker News — Here Is Why Interactive ML Education Still Beats Every AI Course Out There
R2D3's 2015 Visual Introduction to Machine Learning just hit 301 points on Hacker News in 2026. We explore why interactive visual ML education still outperforms...
Chinese State Hackers Spent Six Years Quietly Watching Southeast Asian Militaries — Here Is What Their Custom Malware Actually Does
Palo Alto Unit 42 uncovered a six-year Chinese state-backed espionage campaign (CL-STA-1087) targeting Southeast Asian militaries using custom malware AppleChri...
Spotify's AI DJ Cannot Handle Classical Music — And It Exposes a Much Deeper Problem With AI Recommendations
Charles Petzold, legendary programmer and author, published a devastating critique of Spotify's AI DJ that hit 263 points on HN. The AI cannot handle classical ...
MCP Is Dead, Long Live MCP — Why the Protocol Everyone Loved to Hate Still Has a Future
The MCP vs CLI debate is missing the point. Local MCP is indeed overkill, but server-side MCP for enterprise auth, telemetry, and standardization is just gettin...
Digg Just Got Killed by AI Bots — And Every Community Platform Should Be Terrified
Digg relaunched its beta and AI bots destroyed it within hours. The team banned tens of thousands of accounts, deployed industry-standard bot detection, and it ...
Anthropic Just Made 1M Context Free for Everyone — No Premium, No Beta Header, No Catch
Anthropic made 1M context generally available for Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 at standard pricing — no premium, no beta header. MRCR v2 score of 78.3% lead...
CanIRun.ai Finally Answers the Question Every Local AI Enthusiast Has Been Googling for Two Years
CanIRun.ai is a free web tool that maps AI model hardware requirements against your machine specs. With 762 upvotes on Hacker News, it covers everything from 0....
AI Facial Recognition Put an Innocent Grandmother in Jail for Six Months — And Nobody Even Called Her First
Angela Lipps spent six months in jail after AI facial recognition incorrectly identified her as a bank fraud suspect. She had never been to North Dakota. Nobody...
Researchers Tricked an AI Browser Into a Phishing Scam in Under Four Minutes — Here Is How and Why It Matters
Guardio Labs built a system that automatically generates phishing pages optimized to fool AI browsers. It worked in under four minutes against Perplexity Comet....
Debian Refused to Ban AI-Generated Code — And Both Sides Have a Point
The Debian project voted not to decide on AI-generated contributions. Here is why the skeptics and the advocates both have valid arguments, and why waiting migh...
Half of AI-Generated Pull Requests Would Be Rejected by Real Maintainers — New METR Research Explains Why
METR had real open-source maintainers review 296 AI-generated PRs that passed SWE-bench tests. Roughly half would never make it to main. Here is what that means...
The 8 Levels of Agentic Engineering — Where Does Your Team Actually Sit?
A viral blog post mapped 8 levels of AI-assisted coding maturity, from tab completion to autonomous agents. After talking to 30 engineering teams, here is where...
Who Actually Owns What AI Creates? I Spent 3 Weeks Down the Copyright Rabbit Hole and I Am More Confused Than When I Started
A deep dive into the AI copyright debate after spending three weeks researching who actually owns AI-generated content — with practical advice for businesses ...
A $1 Billion Seed Round Just Happened in AI — What Yann LeCun's New Venture Tells Us About Where This Industry Is Actually Going
Yann LeCun just raised $1 billion in Europe's largest-ever seed round. What this tells us about the AI industry's direction, the open vs. closed model debate, a...
I Set Up AI Agents That Work While I Sleep — Here Is What Four Months of Overnight Automation Actually Looks Like
AI agents that run autonomously overnight are no longer experimental. After four months of running them, here is what works, what fails spectacularly, and the g...
6 AI Tools That Quietly Disappeared in Early 2026 — And What Their Failure Tells Us
Six AI tools that were once popular have quietly faded or disappeared in early 2026. Their failures reveal uncomfortable truths about the AI industry and which ...
How to Automate 80% of Your Small Business With AI and Zero Code — A Step-by-Step Walkthrough
I helped my neighbor automate her bakery business using free AI tools and zero coding. Here is exactly what we set up, how long it took, and the monthly hours i...
I Tracked Every Dollar My Company Spent on AI for 6 Months — The Numbers Will Make You Uncomfortable
A detailed breakdown of how a 12-person company discovered they were spending $19,020/year on AI tools — and cut 32% without anyone noticing.
How a 3-Person Marketing Agency Used AI to Outproduce Teams Five Times Their Size
A 3-person marketing agency in Austin produces more content than teams five times their size using AI. I embedded with them for two weeks to learn exactly how t...
I Read the Privacy Policies of 12 AI Tools So You Do Not Have To — Here Is What They Are Doing With Your Data
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Midjourney — I read 400 pages of legal text to find out which AI tools use your data for training, who reads your conversati...
How to Build an AI Automation Pipeline That Actually Works: A No-Fluff Guide
Skip the hype. Here's how to build real AI automations for email triage, content generation, lead qualification, and reporting — step by step, with actual cos...
The Rise of AI Agents in 2026: They Are Not Just Chatbots Anymore
AI agents are autonomous systems that don't just answer questions — they do things. Here's why 2026 is the tipping point and what it means for your business.
Stop Saying AI Will Replace Developers — It Is Making Them Lazier Instead
Everyone says AI will replace developers. After 18 months of daily AI coding, I think the real problem is different — and worse.
Best AI Data Analysis Tools 2026: I Fed 500,000 Rows Into 6 Platforms to See Which One Actually Delivers
I tested 6 AI data analysis tools with 500,000 rows of real data. Julius AI, ChatGPT Code Interpreter, Tableau AI and more compared on accuracy and ease of use.
Best AI Email Marketing Tools 2026: I Sent 50,000 Emails to Test Which AI Actually Converts
I spent ,200 testing 7 AI email marketing tools with real 50K-subscriber campaigns. Here are the platforms that actually improved open rates, clicks, and revenu...
Best AI Voice Generators in 2026: I Cloned My Own Voice With 7 Different Tools
I cloned my own voice with 7 AI voice generators and compared the results. Here are the 5 that produce genuinely realistic speech in 2026.
Best AI Meeting Note Takers 2026: I Recorded 200 Meetings So You Don't Have To
I have a confession: I'm the person who always forgets to take meeting notes. Two years ago, my manager pulled me aside after a client call and said, "Did anyon...
Best AI Chatbots for Business 2026: I Let 8 Bots Handle Our Customer Support for a Month
I deployed 8 AI chatbot platforms to handle real customer support for a month each. From Intercom Fin's 68% resolution rate to HubSpot's free option, here's wha...
Best AI SEO Tools in 2026: I Ranked for 47 Keywords in 3 Months Using These
I used 6 AI SEO tools across 3 websites for 90 days and ranked for 47 new keywords. Here's which tools actually moved the needle and which ones are just expensi...
Best AI Video Generators 2026: I Made 100 Videos to Find the Top 7
After generating over 100 videos across 7 different AI platforms, I can tell you exactly which AI video generators deliver cinematic quality and which ones prod...
Best AI Presentation Makers 2026: I Built 50 Decks to Find the One That Doesn't Suck
After building 50+ real presentations across 7 AI tools, here's which ones actually deliver quality decks and which ones waste your time.
How to Use AI for Customer Support Without Losing the Human Touch
A practical guide to implementing AI in customer support based on real experience with 15+ deployments. Includes tool reviews, implementation framework, and hon...
Best AI Image Generators 2026: I Created 500+ Images to Find the Winner
After generating 500+ images across 6 AI platforms, here are my honest rankings. Real examples, pricing, and which AI image generator actually delivers.
Best AI Code Assistants 2026: I Let AI Write My Production Code for 30 Days
I used a different AI code assistant each week for a month of real production work. Here's which tools actually make you faster without introducing bugs.
How to Build a Complete Marketing Plan with AI in 30 Minutes
I built a complete marketing plan using three AI tools in 30 minutes flat. Here's the exact process, prompts, and results — no fluff.
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: Which AI Assistant is Best in 2026?
I use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini every day. Here is my honest comparison of all three AI assistants in 2026, with real use cases, pricing, and clear recommenda...
Best AI Writing Tools 2026: I Tested 10 So You Don't Have To
After writing 50 blog posts with 10 AI writing tools, here are my brutally honest rankings — including which ones aren't worth your money.
How to Automate Your Business with AI in 2026: A No-BS Guide
Practical guide to automating your business with AI tools in 2026. Real examples, real savings, no hype.