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title: "What Is Actually New About the AI Revolution?"
date: 2026-09-13
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description: "Since then, the technology has seen decades of progress and setbacks, so-called AI summers and winters. AI didn’t suddenly appear in the world in the 2020s. But powerful, general-purpose AI systems ..."
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# What Is Actually New About the AI Revolution?

Since then, the technology has seen decades of progress and setbacks, so-called AI summers and winters. AI didn’t suddenly appear in the world in the 2020s. But powerful, general-purpose AI systems ...

*Published: 2026-09-13*