AI news, commentary and longer essays by Marko Balabanovic. Covering AI safety, agentic engineering, creative AI, machine learning and the impact of AI on work and society.
The elephant walks out: Open Evidence and the EU & UK clinical AI exit Open Evidence is a clinical-AI search tool used by 40% of US doctors across 10,000 hospitals, running 18 million clinical consultations a month , and recently embedded in the Epic electronic health record at the Mount Sinai hospital. They've recently decided to block the UK and EU , citing "regulatory uncertainty" around the…
Building a real iOS app in 4 days with Claude Code. 5 reflections on agentic engineering: why it's still engineering, what the AI does beyond coding, and what went wrong.
Can model makers control military AI? Explore the ethics of defense LLMs, Claude’s elaborate cheating tactics, and the legal drama of AI-reimplemented libraries.
AI and the future of work: explore social disruption, OpenAI’s strategic challenges, game-trained AI for customer support, and emerging ideas shaping human-AI collaboration.
A reflective roundup on OpenClaw, local AI agents, Claude’s constitution, AI theater, creative coding, and why today’s agent era feels like the early internet—open, exciting, and unsettled.
Explore the chaos of a company run entirely by AI agents, discover Moxie Marlinspike’s new private LLM interface, and dive into the latest AI music chart controversy