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Topics

The same desks, sliced by the beat. Pick a subject or stay on the front page.

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Publishing & Media

How AI is rewriting newsrooms, platforms, and the attention market.

11 stories

Ethics

Incentives, harm, and the stories labs tell about responsibility.

4 stories

Finance

Pricing, subsidies, markets, and who actually pays for the tokens.

57 stories

Governance

Boards, evaluators, and the control systems that do not exist yet.

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Instruction

Training data, education, and what models are actually taught to do.

24 stories

Legal

Statutes, copyright, and the letters that turn into fines.

4 stories

Defense

Dual-use, export controls, and the security briefings that are also sales decks.

8 stories

Healthcare

Clinical claims, lab work, and the gap between a demo and a protocol.

19 stories

Models

Releases, benches, and the price list that follows.

12 stories

Open source

Weights, licenses, and the panic that shows up on launch day.

38 stories

Regulation

Acts, agencies, and enforcement that is no longer a slide.

56 stories

Safety

Evals, refusals, and what counts as a real control system.

17 stories

Compute

Chips, clusters, and the meter behind the chat box.

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A Noctua NH-D15 CPU air cooler with the classic brown-and-beige fans, photographed on 3 November 2022. The lead image fits that square Commons photograph into a 16:9 frame. The cooler in the photograph is the earlier NH-D15, not the NH-D15 G2 shop listing. Photo by Kaleb Kloppe, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Analysis

The tower a local model sits under is not the pump a loop leaves running

A buyer guide to CPU air coolers, tower heatsinks, for a desktop that leaves llama.cpp, a fine-tune, or a ComfyUI queue running for hours. The shop cards are an ARCTIC Freezer 36, a be quiet! Dark Rock 5, a be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 5, a Noctua NH-D12L, and a Noctua NH-D15 G2. A closed loop has a pump. These do not. Artificial Examiner has not bench-tested these coolers. The links are affiliate.