New technology arrives faster than the judgment to use it well. These articles cover evaluating what is genuinely new, separating capability from hype, and deciding when a business should move and when it should wait.
AIChatGPT launched as a free research preview on November 30, 2022 and now has about 900 million weekly users. Richard Lowe traces the road from Turing to GPT-6 Astra, pushes back on the AGI claim, and says how writers should…
CybersecurityBig tech plans about $725 billion in AI spending this year. The PHP Foundation took in about $730,000 last year. AI now finds PHP's flaws faster than its small team can fix them, and the AI companies should pay to…
AI AdoptionMo Gawdat says a 12-to-15-year AI dystopia starts in 2027. His dates are a long-range guess. His list of harms, from deepfakes to surveillance, is already here, and his fix is the right one.
AIA Goodfire researcher argues neural networks are far easier to read than anyone thought. After twenty years running computer operations, here's why I believe him, and why readable has never meant safe.
Critical ThinkingPenrose and Hameroff's quantum theory of consciousness, dismissed for forty years, is getting a second look. I agree that consciousness isn't computation. I don't agree that the brain produces it. Here's the radio model, and what it means for AI.
CybersecurityExecutives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI firms are reportedly preparing for a catastrophic AI incident. Preparing is good, but the first rule of risk management is to understand the risk. Here's what a real plan would name.
AIAnthropic's updated usage policy bans sustained and needless cruelty toward Claude, starting November 12, 2026. Frustration, pushback and dark fiction are all exempt. Here's what the rule covers, why Anthropic made it, and what else changed.
CybersecurityI have four Alexa devices. The screen models push ads, they answer when nobody called them, and one took over a device I never connected. Here are the settings I'd change today and the rooms where a smart speaker never…
AI AdoptionTech CEOs say the AI singularity has begun, and skeptics call it marketing. Both assume humans will matter to a conscious AI. What if it doesn't care about us at all?
AIAnthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, claiming Fable-level work at 40% less than Opus 5. The parts that matter to writers are the style-rule claim, a sharp drop in invented quotes, and one admission buried in the…
AITrump announced an AI Force and a coming AI czar with no mission, budget or legal basis, and a plan to police AI through the courts after the damage is done. That's a fire department with no fire code.
AITwelve attacks, four decades, one lesson: isolation is a promise people keep, not a property a system has. What that means for the trust we are placing in AI. The final article in a series on attacks that beat isolation.
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