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Tuesday 22 September 2026

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Wes Tanaka

Technology Editor

Wes Tanaka is technology editor at AI Affairs, based in San Francisco. He covers model releases, research results, evaluations and the engineering underneath them, and writes the longer pieces on what the technology is doing to work and to daily life. He came to journalism after six years as a machine learning engineer, which is mostly useful for knowing which benchmark numbers mean something. He writes for readers who are not in the industry, on the assumption that most people are not.