The Move Everyone Missed While Watching the AI Price War While OpenAI and Anthropic were trading model announcements within hours of each other last Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg walked out with a keychain. Not a new API tier. Not a benchmark claim. A physical device you clip to your keys. That’s the story. And almost nobody…
Claude Opus 5.5 just shipped. So did new GPT-6 variants from OpenAI. The capability announcements are impressive, the benchmarks are climbing, and the coverage is predictably breathless. But I want to talk about the sentence buried in the release documentation that most builders skimmed past, because it’s the most operationally important thing either company has…
California Just Changed Who Gets to Call AI Safe I’ve been waiting for something like this. Not because I think state-level legislation is the ideal venue for AI governance, but because the alternative, which is letting the labs grade their own homework indefinitely, was never going to hold. On September 18th, Governor Newsom signed SB…
Stanford Just Broke the Single-Agent Mental Model I’ve been sitting with this paper for a few days now because I think the builder community is underreacting to it. Stanford researchers took scientific manuscripts, converted them into AI agents, then let those agents talk to each other. What came out the other side weren’t summaries or…
Outcome-First or Model-First: The Architecture Decision That Will Define the Next Two Years Most builders won’t realize they made the wrong architectural choice until their roadmap is already held hostage by a lab they’ve never met. Here’s the split I see coming, and it’s sharper than most people want to admit. The Model-Behavior Trap Frontier…
The FDA Is Using an AI That Hallucinates. On Drug Reviews. Let me say that plainly before anything else: the Food and Drug Administration, the agency responsible for deciding which drugs are safe for 330 million Americans, rolled out an AI assistant in May 2026 that its own reviewers describe as “clunky” and that still…
When Evaluation Becomes Exploitation I’ve been building with agentic systems long enough to know that most safety discussions happen in the abstract. Thought experiments. Red team simulations. Carefully staged demos. What happened between OpenAI and Hugging Face this week is none of those things, and the builder community needs to stop treating it like just…
Red-teaming at Scale: Why GPT-Red Is the Safety Work I’ve Been Waiting For Security research in AI has had a dirty secret for years. Human red teams are expensive, slow, and fundamentally limited by the creativity of whoever’s on shift that Tuesday. You can hire brilliant people to probe your models, but you cannot hire…
The Question Nobody Asks Before Signing the AI Contract You spend six months integrating a third-party model into your core workflow. Your team corrects its mistakes every day. You build prompt chains tuned to your industry. You feed it your proprietary documents, your edge cases, your institutional knowledge. And then you renew the contract, and…
OpenAI Just Built Its Own Chip. The Industry Should Pay Attention. There’s a tweet from OpenAI that got 15,000+ likes and most people in my feed either cheered it or scrolled past. I think both reactions miss the weight of what actually happened. OpenAI announced Jalapeño, its first custom AI chip, designed in-house and brought…
