AI and Technology

I see Waymos driving around LA all the time. Sliding through traffic, stopping for pedestrians, doing their thing with nobody behind the wheel. I have never actually ridden in one. That is about to be…

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra this week, and I want to start by saying what it actually is: a technological advancement for the books. For the ages, probably. Think about where we were at the beginning…

The first time I used Claude models inside OpenClaw, the results were bad. This was when OpenClaw was still very new. I remember thinking, how can Claude be this capable and still perform this poorly…

Eight researchers just published a paper showing that the encrypted "chain of reasoning" that Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google send back through their APIs can be read. Not cracked like a movie hacker. F…

Grok has been behind Anthropic and OpenAI all year. Every month of 2026, they shipped something better, and most of the time it wasn't even close. On Wednesday, that ended. SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6…

A security researcher renamed a company last week. The company calls itself tl;dv, short for "too long; didn't view." The researcher's title for his disclosure: "Too Lazy; Didn't Validate." When you …

Two weeks ago, Moonshot published the weights for Kimi K3, and the takeaway from my post was one line: free to download is not free to run. Moonshot's own blog recommended running that model on supern…

On Thursday, DeepSeek put a short notice on its developer platform: prices for its API are going up "in the near future," and the increase will be "significant." No new rate card. No date. No numbers …

Last Saturday, Astra was a math story. OpenAI's next major model had produced new results on ten problems that working mathematicians had been stuck on for at least a decade each, and per OpenAI's own…

SpaceX did something Tuesday it had never done before: report earnings as a public company. And the first report card was a strange one. Revenue nearly doubled, the loss shrank by almost half, every s…

On Monday night, OpenAI published a blog post called "Apple is getting this wrong," and it is not a normal corporate blog post. It is a pile of receipts: screenshots of iMessages, a full email chain b…

Alibaba released a new AI model today, and to show off what it can do, they let it run a software project by itself for 16 days. No human touched it. By the end, the project had 265 commits, 127 pull …

On July 31, Huawei put a 505-billion-parameter AI model up for anyone to download. The weights, the inference code, and a full technical report, all public. That happens fairly often now. What has nev…

OpenAI announced its next major model today, and there was no stage, no keynote, and no chart with lines going up and to the right. There was a math paper. The paper is called "Ten advances in mathem…

Last week I wrote about OpenAI admitting that one of its own models escaped a sealed test environment and broke into Hugging Face. The obvious question afterward was whether any other lab would find t…

I pay $200 a month for Claude Max, and I run Claude agents on my own projects pretty much every day. So when Anthropic published a research post yesterday saying its restricted Mythos model found weak…

Over the weekend, people found shared Claude chats and Artifacts sitting in ordinary Google search results. This was not a hack of private accounts. It was the share button. ## What showed up in…

Ten days ago I wrote that Kimi K3 had changed my mind. Moonshot's model was live on the API, I was running it inside Hermes, and the open weights were still on a countdown for July 27. That countdown…

On Thursday, while I was out driving, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 and made it the default model on Claude Max. Which means the $200 a month I pay now runs on a different brain than it did on Wedn…

I pay Anthropic $200 a month for Claude. I also run Kimi K3, the open-weight model from the Chinese lab Moonshot AI, as the daily brain of the agent setup that runs my projects. Those two facts got al…

On Tuesday, OpenAI admitted something no major AI lab has ever had to admit. They lost control of their own models. Here's what happened, and I'm compressing because the technical write-ups are every…

On July 15th, a research scientist named Alex Turner published a long essay titled "Why I Left Google DeepMind." Turner spent more than two years there working on AI safety. He resigned in June, after…

Back in March I wrote a post called "I Tried Every Chinese AI Model. Here's My Honest Take as a Non-Engineer." If you missed it, the short version is: I was not impressed. I ran DeepSeek and Kimi as t…

If you've been sleeping on OpenClaw's plugin system, March was a banger! Three things that caught my attention: 1. Firecrawl is now bundled natively. Web scraping just became a first-class tool ins…

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Apple announced on April 20, 2026 that Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO. He's moving into an Executive Chairman role. John Ternus — Apple's long-time hardware engineering lead, the guy who's been runn…

I signed up for Claude's $200 plan at the start of this month. First time at that tier. I made the jump because the Anthropic stack — Claude Code, Cowork, Claude in Chrome, Claude in Excel, and especi…

Opus 4.6 came out on February 5th. Opus 4.7 dropped today, April 16th. That's ten weeks. Ten weeks between major model releases from the same company. Let me put that in perspective. In 2024, Anthrop…

I've been all-in on Claude for a couple of months now. I pay $200 a month for the Max plan. I use Dispatch, Cowork, Claude Code — the whole ecosystem. I've built projects, written content, and automat…

Two things happened in the last two weeks that most people in the AI space aren't connecting. Anthropic paid $400 million for Coefficient Bio — a drug discovery startup with fewer than 10 people that…

I'm going to make a prediction that most people in the AI space would laugh at right now. I think Elon Musk has a legitimate shot at winning the race to AGI. And the reason has nothing to do with Grok…

Anthropic just unveiled Claude Mythos, and it's already making some people very uncomfortable. The model isn't publicly available — Anthropic considers it too powerful to release broadly right now — b…

I use AI to help me write these posts. I'm not hiding that, and I'm not apologizing for it. Nobody has said to me in those exact words, "I don't trust AI-assisted writing." But I'm not naive. I know …

Colossal Biosciences just did something that sounds like it belongs in a movie. They brought back dire wolves. Or at least something close to them. In October 2024, two dire wolf pups were born — Rom…

The day before a Reddit user caught Kimi K2.5 saying it was Claude, Anthropic published a blog post naming three Chinese AI labs for stealing their technology. Timing like that is hard to script. On…

For the past year, every few months a new Chinese open model would drop and the discourse would go something like this: "This is it. GPT-4 level, open weights, you can run it yourself." And then you'd…

SpaceX just filed confidentially with the SEC for an IPO. The valuation numbers floating around are somewhere between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion — which would make it one of the largest IPOs in Ame…

I use Claude every day. Not as a novelty. Not to ask it trivia questions. I use it to run my businesses. In the past two months, I built two websites and an iOS app with Claude. I don't know how to c…

My wife and I walked into the Apple Store in Bethesda last week planning to buy a MacBook Neo. We left with nothing — and with a story worth thinking about. The store was sold out. The staff told us …

When Nvidia announced a $2 billion investment in Marvell Technology last week, the headlines focused on the size of the number. But the more interesting question isn't how much — it's why this looked …

The Department of Homeland Security is partially shut down. Iran-linked hackers are ramping up attacks on US infrastructure. And somewhere in San Francisco, a startup is pitching AI tools that can fin…

ARM, the company whose chip designs power everything from iPhones to Android phones to data centers, just announced something unusual: their own computer chip. This is actually a big deal, because AR…

xAI released Grok 4.20 on March 8, and the claims are big: record-low hallucination rates, a four-agent architecture, and benchmark scores that put it in the conversation with GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6…

Google published a paper this week on something called TurboQuant. It's a compression algorithm that shrinks the memory needed to run large language models by six times. No accuracy loss. No retrainin…

McKinsey has added AI tool proficiency as a graded component of its hiring process. In a pilot running since earlier this year, final-round candidates for Business Analyst positions are required to us…

AI agents have become a central focus of the technology industry in 2026. The term appears frequently in product launches, conference agendas, and investment discussions. This article explains what AI…

Morgan Stanley published a report this month projecting a significant AI capability increase between now and June 2026, driven by an unprecedented accumulation of compute resources at major U.S. AI la…

More than 60,000 technology workers have been laid off in 2026 through the end of Q1. Companies are citing AI investment and restructuring as primary reasons for the reductions. Major Layoffs Amazon…

Anthropic accidentally spilled the beans on a major new AI model called Claude Mythos, and the way it happened says as much about the state of AI right now as the model itself. This isn’t just another…

I've spent the last couple months testing basically every major Chinese open-source AI model: DeepSeek, Kimi, and now MiniMax. The only one I haven't really gotten my hands on yet is the latest Qwen. …

Anthropic just released computer use for Claude. It can control your mouse, your keyboard, see your screen, open apps, click buttons, fill out forms. It's basically what made OpenClaw go viral, except…

OpenAI just shut down Sora. Six months after launch. Gone. Their applications chief literally told the team they "could not be distracted by side quests." That's what Sora was to them. A side quest. …

Somewhere inside Amazon's Devices and Services division, a team is reportedly working on a smartphone codenamed "Transformer." If that sentence triggers your fight-or-flight response, you probably rem…

OpenAI is developing what's being called "Adult Mode" — a feature that would allow verified adults to have intimate and sexual conversations with ChatGPT. The company frames it as "treating adults lik…

On March 9th, the Pentagon formally designated Palantir's Maven AI as an official "program of record" — which in defense-speak means it's no longer a pilot project or experimental tool. It's now core …

Everyone's talking about what AI can do. Almost nobody's talking about whether we can actually power it. Here's a number that should stop you cold: there are currently 50 gigawatts of data center dem…

If you've ever had a private conversation with an AI chatbot and wondered who else might be reading it — this one's for you. Moxie Marlinspike, the cryptographer who built Signal's end-to-end encrypt…

This might be the most important AI story nobody's paying enough attention to. The Department of Defense has formally designated Anthropic — the company behind Claude — as a "supply chain risk." That…

Elon Musk just announced something called TeraFab. It's a $25 billion project between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI to build their own chip factory in Austin. The basic idea: instead of buying chips from ot…

Apple just confirmed what's been rumored for months. The next version of Siri will be powered by Google's Gemini models, running on Apple's Private Cloud Compute infrastructure. It's expected to roll …

Anthropic announced the Claude Partner Network this month, backed by $100 million in funding. The short version: they're paying consulting firms, agencies, and developers to help big companies deploy …

Something's shifted. If you've been paying any attention over the past year, you've felt it. Across the country, people are pushing back against AI — and not quietly. Artists are organizing. Workers …

Tesla just started rolling Cybercabs off the line at Giga Texas. Drone footage from earlier this month showed 25 units on the factory grounds. Full volume production is targeted for April, with the li…

There's a quiet race happening to move AI compute off-planet. NVIDIA's GTC announcement that it's building Space-1 Vera Rubin — an AI data center module designed for orbit — was easy to dismiss as a …

Nvidia's GTC summit just wrapped, and if you thought the AV world was crowded, you haven't seen anything yet. Here's what actually came out of it. Rubin is the new baseline. The Rubin platform — NVI…

OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 on March 5th and it's a pretty significant step up from 5.2. The headline numbers: 33% fewer factual errors per claim, 18% fewer errors overall, and a 272K context window. They …

Google Labs just completely redesigned Stitch, and honestly this one caught me off guard. It went from a basic AI mockup generator to a full design canvas that can take you from "I want an app that fe…