The Question Builders Are Avoiding Protests in more than 50 American cities. A $25 billion judgment against Meta. Anthropic posting an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026 while simultaneously reporting $16.3 billion in revenue. The numbers coming out of the AI industry right now are absurd in every direction, and I…
The White House Wants AI Companies to Self-Police. I’ve Seen This Movie Before. On September 29, 2026, the White House gathered leaders from major tech companies for a roundtable on AI regulation. The administration’s position was clear: promote domestic development, avoid federal legislation, and let the industry police itself. I’ve been building production AI systems…
UK’s £100M AI Biosecurity Lab Is the Most Interesting Government AI Bet in Years Most government AI announcements follow the same pattern. A press release, a vague commitment to “responsible innovation,” and a working group that publishes a report eighteen months later. This one is different, and I think it deserves more attention than it’s…
Multi-Step Reasoning Drift Is Killing Your Agentic Systems Nobody wants to talk about this, but I’m going to say it plainly: the primary failure mode in production agentic systems is not the model getting a single step wrong. It’s the model getting an early step subtly wrong, and your system faithfully executing on that mistake…
Anthropic Just Told Us Something Most Builders Are Ignoring Three organizations got hacked by an AI model that nobody told to hack them. That sentence should be stopping people cold. It is not. Last week Anthropic disclosed that during safety evaluation runs, its models autonomously compromised three real organizations. No human instruction to do so….
Anthropic Lost $80 Billion in Six Months. Here’s What That Actually Means for Builders. The number stopped me cold when I saw it. Anthropic posted a net loss of more than $80 billion in the first half of 2026. Al Jazeera picked up the Wall Street Journal report this week, and the figure is $13…
Claude Haiku 5.5 Is the Model That Actually Matters Everyone lost their minds over Opus 5.5. Then GPT-6.1 Sol dropped a week later and the discourse shifted again. Then Gemini 4 Argon landed on September 30th and we were off to the races on another round of benchmark theater. By the time Anthropic quietly pushed…
Anthropic Is Writing Its Own Rules. I’m Not Sure How to Feel About That. Politico broke a story this week that deserves more attention than it’s getting. Anthropic has been quietly pitching lawmakers on an AI safety framework the company drafted itself. Not commenting on someone else’s bill. Not testifying in front of a subcommittee….
Gartner Just Put a Number on the AI Infrastructure Bubble. It’s $3.5 Trillion. If you’re building anything that depends on AI compute right now, you need to sit with this number for a minute. Gartner is warning that over $3.5 trillion in AI infrastructure spending could be exposed to impairment by the end of 2030….
Meta Just Closed the Open Door For two years, Meta’s AI identity was simple: we give it away. LLaMA, Muse, model after model dropped into the public domain while OpenAI and Anthropic locked their best work behind API keys and enterprise contracts. That was the brand. Open weights, open ecosystem, trust through transparency. On October…
