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For curious people who want to understand AI without having to live and breathe it. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I explain what changed, why it matters and what is actually worth trying.

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The robot team that found another question

Wednesday · Understand it The robot team that found another question Hello, This week, a robot story that is really about judgement: when a machine spots a new lead, what should it be allowed to change? Two things worth knowing Eye screening: the result while the patient is still there. In a Tanzanian trial, more people with referable diabetic eye disease attended a specialist clinic after an AI-supported screening pathway than after standard screening. The AI pathway also gave people an...

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Wednesday · Understand it The book that couldn't be opened Hello, How do you read a book if opening it could destroy it? At Herculaneum, ancient scrolls survived the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, but became too fragile to unroll safely. The writing was still inside. Getting at it was the problem. On 25 June 2026, the Vesuvius Challenge team announced that it had read the surviving portion of one scroll without physically opening it. What emerged was philosophical writing about ethics. The...

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Wednesday · Understand it Start with the muddle Hello, You open an AI chat, look at the empty box and realise you don't quite know what to ask. Perhaps you're preparing for a meeting. Perhaps you need to explain what your business does, or you've got a list of jobs that keeps getting longer. You know something needs doing. You haven't worked out what would help. Start there. Write the untidy version, including what you're stuck on. Then ask the tool to help you work out the task before it...

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