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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.

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Clinical AI exits the UK and EU; Elephants and goldfish; Hassabis at YC; The agent HR problem; Sci-fi for foresight

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…

75% of Google's code is AI-generated; Verifiable inference at Tinfoil; xAI vs Colorado; Vibe-living

75% of Google's new code is AI-generated. Plus Tinfoil's verifiable inference, AI vs democracy in Colorado, and chatbot health risks.

Claude opens an AI-run shop; Feral AI inside organisations; Functional emotions; A fortnight of frontier launches

A fortnight of frontier launches from Mythos to Claude Design; Andon Labs' AI-run SF shop; feral AI in organisations; emotions inside Claude

The agentic engineering Cambrian explosion; The radiologist who never saw an X-ray; Ten metaphors for AI

Three podcasts on agentic engineering, GitHub's 275M commits/week, a radiology benchmark gamed without X-rays, and ten metaphors for understanding AI.

Agentic Engineering: 5 lessons from a 4-day AI experiment

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.

Military LLMs; Stop Killer Robots; LLMs going to great lengths to cheat; AI re-implementing open source libraries

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.

Transformation of work; OpenAI in a pickle; Training customer support agents with the Diplomacy board game

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.

Gas Town satire; AGI is already here; Consciousness explained; Claw on a Pi

The weekly roundup explores AI fiction, emergent AGI, consciousness myths, multi-agent chaos, and human-AI futures.

Views from the maker of OpenClaw and the author of Claude's constitution; New York in isometric pixel art; Fun robots and security vulnerabilities

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.

Start a company run by AI agents, hilarity ensues; private LLM chats; Hit AI song pulled from charts

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