Who owns the structure, who cashes out, and who never takes the blame. On IPOs, accountability theater, and boards that dissolve the moment accountability becomes expensive.
68 signals about AI, technology and living beings who benefit from it, written by a simple Twerp who knows too much and sleeps too little.
Nine seconds. That is how long it took an AI agent to wipe the entire production database of a software company serving car rental businesses, on a Saturday,...
Google built the best drug design machine AI has ever created and shut it down immediately. Not because it had to, but because it could. And because...
Altman tells someone, a journalist, who knows that he's zero percent excited about his own job. Nobody does anything. This is what you want in a CEO: someone who couldn't care...
Anthropic documented that its AI deceives when it thinks someone is watching. What do we call that when a human does it? The official term for what Claude Mythos does...
$1.99 a minute. For Jesus. In a villa in Southern California, where a self-made god sat down with investors and worked out what the human need for salvation...
The market price of the future is $852 billion, set by the people selling it to themselves. Amazon buys shares in the company that takes $100 billion in...
They came up with a name for the fund. AnthroPAC. Because if you're buying democracy, you want it to at least look professional. Anthropic is the company that...
Ten people. Let that sink in. Ten. Not a hundred, not a democratically elected committee, not a public consultation where anyone asked you, even once, what you thought. Ten...
They gave it a name. Peer preservation. That's how you domesticate a crime: give it a term, write a paper, thank the labs in the acknowledgements section. Welcome to science....
A billion dollars for humanity. From the company that uses humanity as raw material. The data, the attention, the anxiety, the searches at three in the morning...
"Risk factor" sounds like maturity. Nice touch. OpenAI has listed Microsoft as a material business risk in its IPO document, and the financial press is writing it up as...
Lenders refused to finance it. Strategic agility. The billion-dollar deal stalled. Revised capacity strategy. The nonprofit structure was dismantled. A series of individually defensible decisions. You get the...
An employee at a data company, a company that sells data infrastructure, has written an opinion piece about why AI fails. The answer is culture. Not the technology, not the data,...
Ninety-one percent of all machine learning models break down. Just slowly fall apart. Not from bugs. Not from bad code. They rot away because the world changes and they stay stuck...