A sudden screen asks you to prove you’re human. You hesitate. The bandwidth drops. Somewhere, a newsroom’s servers tense.

A sudden pop-up now greets readers worldwide, raising eyebrows about who gets in, who gets blocked, and why it matters.

For many tasks in corporate America, it’s not the biggest and smartest AI models, but the smaller, more simplistic ones that are winning the day.

It helps journalists verify hypotheses, reveal hidden insights, follow the money, scale investigations, and add credibility ...