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I don't normally do politics content, but Bethany Andres-Beck's team reached out to me. After a brief screening conversation, I thought it would be an interesting opportunity to talk about AI, regulation, and politics. Bethany has worked as a software eng

Being an expert in one field doesn't make you an expert in all fields. Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness, provided a $20 billion demonstration this week. His claim to fame was being part of OpenAI's Superalignment team before being

I do a lot of high-stakes work using AI. Whether it's coding that affects thousands of real users, technical CAD/layout where mistakes incur tens or hundreds of thousands in cost and lost time, or investment decisions with millions of dollars at stake, I

A politics podcast. A doctor and researcher's interview transcript. A published article in a major newspaper. Mainstream media, and most people, used to be blissfully unaware of AI. In April, a mere three months ago, , a columnist at the Washington Post,

Numbers are generally as of July 1st, 2026.Tomorrow, the United States turns 250. I wasn't planning on writing a birthday piece, but the mood suddenly struck me, especially as I reflected on what makes America unique.Three weeks ago, a company founded in

Anthropic recently had to pull Mythos/Fable due to an edict from the US government. While Mythos was a step up from Opus, I've been actively moving smaller in terms of my agentic models-and matching the quality of output of some of the largest frontier mo

Why is model inference getting cheaper? How did I drop a soon-to-be $2,000+/month bill for AI agents to next to nothing? And why are local models on commodity hardware potentially "good enough" for most people?There are two macro trends here that feed dir

What happens if world models work? In a way, all of our assumptions break. Everything that LLMs can do because they have the digital footprints of literally billions of people from the internet… we could have in the real world too. We could shortcut the d

In the Halo series, one of the plot points is that the AI eventually becomes "rampant." (Yes, I mean the shooter game-believe it or not, it not only has a plot, it has a pretty good one if you include the books.)Humanity's AI in the game, by most any defi

, a columnist at The Washington Post, shared her AI workflow on X.Basically, it's a research assistant and copyeditor. While she doesn't have a human research assistant, her job at The Washington Post obviously provides a human editor and copyeditor. It d