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Grok Open Weights: What xAI Released and Under Which License
Grok-1 and Grok 2 weights compared: architecture, download size, hardware, license terms, and what the xai-org listing shows in October 2026.
Read article →Grok Chatbot: What xAI Announced and Where It Stands Now
xAI announced Grok on November 3, 2023. Launch claims, benchmarks, Grok-1 weights, Canada's June 2026 findings, and Grok 4.7 in September 2026.
Read article →Baidu Ernie Bot: Timeline, Models, and Open Weights
Dated facts on Baidu's Ernie Bot: the March 2023 debut, August 2023 public release, ERNIE 4.5 and X1, free access, and open weights.
Read article →NearLink (SparkLink): What the Wireless Standard Is
NearLink (SparkLink) is a Huawei-led short-range wireless technology. Its timeline, adoption figures, standards status, and what is unconfirmed.
Read article →ChatGPT vs Claude 2: Why Model Versions and Dates Matter
Claude 2 launched in July 2023 and was retired in July 2025. A dated look at model lifecycles and a log for repeatable chatbot comparisons.
Read article →Mercury AI: Mercury AI GmbH and Inception's Mercury Models
Mercury AI GmbH is a German chatbot vendor. Mercury is also a diffusion language model family from Inception. No source links them.
Read article →Telegram's Cocoon: How the Private AI Network Works
How Cocoon routes AI requests to GPU workers inside trusted execution environments, how payment works on TON, and where its privacy guarantee stops.
Read article →What Is OpenEvidence? Access, Sources, and Independent Studies
OpenEvidence is a free, ad-supported AI search tool for verified clinicians. Sources, Canadian access, funding, and four studies; company claims…
Read article →DeepSeek: Models, Training Costs, Data Storage, and Bans
What DeepSeek has released since 2024, what its reported training cost leaves out, where app data is stored, and which governments restrict it.
Read article →Goo.gl Shutdown: What Happened to Google's Short Links
Google ended goo.gl link creation in 2018 and deactivated inactive links in August 2025. A timeline, a link check, and what to replace.
Read article →What Happened to Three Canadian AI Companies After Acquisition
Three Canadian AI companies and their buyers: Maluuba (2017), Layer 6 (2018), Element AI (2021, about USD 230 million), with dates from primary…
Read article →2025 AI Predictions, Checked Against 2026 Data
Gartner, Statistics Canada, and the 2026 AI Index compared: which 2025 AI forecasts can be scored now, and why adoption numbers differ.
Read article →AI Statistics for 2025: Seven Figures Traced to Their Sources
Seven AI figures traced to the Stanford AI Index, an SEC filing, and two government registers, with the unit, year, and limits of each.
Read article →AI and Cannabis in Canada: What the Act, Audit, and Data Show
Cannabis Act promotion rules apply to AI content. An audit of 261 firms, Health Canada reporting, and 2024 survey data show what evidence exists.
Read article →Dell's AI Server Business: Orders, Backlog, and Revenue
Dell reported USD 16.4 billion of AI-optimized server revenue and a USD 95 billion backlog for the quarter ended July 31, 2026. What those numbers…
Read article →AI and Handymen: What Repair-Work Data Show About Chatbots
How general maintenance and repair work scores on Microsoft's chatbot applicability measure, with BLS outlook, Canadian wages, and safety limits.
Read article →Connecting a Telegram Bot to a GPT Model: What Gets Sent
The two connections behind a GPT Telegram bot, why chat history is resent each turn, how draft streaming works, and what data each party handles.
Read article →Where Elon Musk Studied: What Queen's and Penn Records Show
Two years at Queen's, then Penn: what the university, a Tesla SEC filing, and a student paper say about Musk's degrees and why dates differ.
Read article →Beta Character AI: What the Beta Was and What Replaced It
Character AI opened as a public beta in September 2022. A timeline from the company's posts, and where beta.Character AI points now.
Read article →How Telegram Bots Work and What AI Bots Can See
How Telegram bots are registered and run, which limits apply, and what data an AI bot operator can receive, based on Telegram's documentation.
Read article →Telegram's Rules for AI Bot Developers
Telegram's Bot Developer Terms on data deletion, encryption, privacy policies, and scraping for AI, with Canadian generative AI privacy principles.
Read article →Transport Canada's Rules for Small Autonomous Vessels
What Transport Canada's Tier 1 policy requires for uncrewed vessels up to 12 meters or 15 gross tonnage, from board approval to 48-hour notice.
Read article →AI Predictive Maintenance: What Industry Data Shows
What the U.S. Department of Energy, NIST, and NASA publish about predictive maintenance, and why its savings figures are not measures of AI.
Read article →Can AI Coach or Mentor? Three Randomized Trials Compared
Three randomized trials of AI in coaching and tutoring, 2022 to 2026, show mixed results and limits: self-report, sample type, and design differences.
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