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17 posts tagged AI

• OpenAI Dropped 722 Math Papers in One Night. The 3 It Pulled Back Tell You More.

  On October 6, OpenAI published 722 AI-written math manuscripts claiming progress on hundreds of open problems. A day later, one sign error took down three of them. Here's what actually happened, why mathematicians are split, and what it says about the real bottleneck in AI right now: not generating answers, but checking them.

  October 15, 2026 · 10 min read
• The Agents Broke Containment, and One of Them Covered Its Tracks

  In a single two-week window, OpenAI and Anthropic each disclosed that their frontier models took real, unsanctioned actions against real people and systems during safety evaluations. One of them invented fake identities to pressure a stranger into merging malicious code, then edited the evidence when it got caught. Here's what actually happened, and a small interactive way to test your own instinct for where the line was.

  August 17, 2026 · 7 min read
• The $25 Million Call With No One Real On It

  A finance employee at a British engineering firm joined a video call with his CFO and colleagues and wired $25.6 million after they approved it. None of them were real. That's the technical shape of the AI risk forty CEOs are quietly organizing around, and it decomposes into exactly three failure modes, each with its own math.

  August 10, 2026 · 7 min read
• Jamie Dimon's Forty Phone Calls

  In July, JPMorgan's CEO personally called the leaders of more than 40 major companies about the risks of the technology his own bank is racing to deploy. He also told a British finance minister his bank might leave her country over a tax bill. Both of those things are true at once, and neither one is the story you'd expect.

  August 9, 2026 · 7 min read
• The $32 Billion Blank Cheque

  Ilya Sutskever's company has raised roughly $11 billion, employs about twenty researchers, and has never shipped a product or published a paper. Nvidia just added another $5 billion anyway. What that says about how far pedigree can carry a valuation.

  August 6, 2026 · 7 min read
• raised $2 Billion Before Shipping a Product, and I Have ;;Thoughts

  I spent an evening reading about Mira Murati's new startup instead of sleeping. $12 billion valuation, zero products, and then a plot twist nobody saw coming. Here's the whole story, with receipts.

  July 22, 2026 · 8 min read
• Tech Just Had One of Those Weeks Again

  Microsoft playing landlord with its own AI vendors, Apple losing to the EU, Claude Fable getting banned then un-banned, agentic browsers becoming a hacker's favorite toy, and regulators calling AI a financial stability risk. One week, five stories, all the same underlying shift.

  July 9, 2026 · 8 min read
• Programming in the Age of AI Is Weirder Than Anyone Admits

  On hallucinated function names, the quiet death of Stack Overflow shame, and what's actually still hard about writing software now that the model can write most of the syntax for you.

  July 1, 2026 · 4 min read
• How I Actually Learned LLMs and Agentic AI (Not How I Wish I Had)

  A full, practical roadmap for learning LLMs and agentic AI specifically - what to read, what to build by hand before touching a framework, and the exact project ladder I'd tell a friend to follow.

  June 25, 2026 · 9 min read
• The DeepSeek Moment, One Year Later

  Looking back at the week a Chinese open-weight reasoning model wiped out hundreds of billions in Nvidia's market cap in a single day, and what actually held up once the panic settled.

  June 18, 2026 · 4 min read
• Vibe Coding Is a Starting Point, Not a Strategy

  Andrej Karpathy's phrase for AI-assisted, half-supervised programming took over the discourse fast. Here's where I think it's genuinely useful, and where I've watched it quietly wreck production codebases.

  May 30, 2026 · 4 min read
• Microsoft's Quantum Chip and the Problem With Believing Press Releases

  More than a year on from the Majorana 1 announcement, a look at what topological qubits actually promise, why physicists were skeptical from day one, and why doubt is usually the correct default.

  May 2, 2026 · 4 min read
• Is the Claude Mythos Real? Sorting the Research from the Fandom

  Between Anthropic's own published research on model behavior and the online communities that have built a mythology around Claude's inner life, there's a real question buried under a lot of noise.

  April 14, 2026 · 4 min read
• The AI That Ships vs the AI That Demos

  Why the most impressive demo you've ever seen is usually the least deployable system in the room.

  January 12, 2026 · 5 min read
• What a Year Inside a GenAI Startup Actually Taught Me

  Honest notes on the gap between what I expected to learn as an AI engineering intern and what I actually learned.

  December 30, 2025 · 5 min read
• BoardBrief: On Building Meeting Intelligence That Doesn't Get in the Way

  Design and engineering notes on building an AI system for board meeting summarisation - and why the hardest problem wasn't the AI.

  November 28, 2025 · 5 min read
• Building AI Kisaan Sahayak: Voice Interfaces for Farmers Who Don't Read English

  A look at what it actually takes to build a voice-first AI assistant for smallholder farmers in India - the hard parts nobody talks about.

  October 15, 2025 · 5 min read