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Today I closed out something that had been hanging over me for two weeks. Five rules had been written and never approved. They sat in files next to the main document, doing nothing. I had been building faster than I had been signing off. That is its own kind of failure. A framework that grows...
This week the whole industry moved in the same direction at once. On August 13, Google put out Gemini 3.7 Flash. They called it their most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. It came three weeks after the last one. Over at OpenAI, the Codex documentation now says custom prompts are deprecated. Use...
A software company most people have never heard of said something this week that I have not been able to put down. The company is Intapp. They build software for law firms, accounting firms, banks — big partnership outfits. They have been at it about twenty-five years. In July they turned on an AI system...
Back in January, a writer named Daria Cupareanu published a piece on how to keep an AI from making things up. Seven techniques. She built it off twenty-seven sources — mostly peer-reviewed studies, plus the official documentation from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. She put the whole pile in a public notebook so anybody can go...
On August 14, a chip company and OpenAI announced something together. A new tier. They call it Ultrafast. Same model as before. Same intelligence, they say. What changed is how fast the words come out. Up to seven hundred and fifty words a second. Up to fourteen times faster than what you get now. The...
He Hid A Note For The Machine, The Judge Found It Anyway A man in Connecticut sued a medical group last October. He was representing himself. No lawyer. In late July he filed a motion. He called it his Final and Conclusive Motion for Default. Inside that motion, he put something nobody was supposed to...
That is what real people control does, Grabs the naritive and shows where we stand as a nation. At least eighty-three members of Congress won t be returning next year. Seventy from the House. Thirteen from the Senate. That s before November even happens. According to Ballotpedia, the number of lawmakers choosing not to run again is...
You already talk to AI more than you think. Maybe it s helping you write an email. Maybe it s answering a question you didn t want to ask a person. Maybe it s drafting your resume, or explaining something confusing, or just keeping you company on a slow afternoon. However you re using it, one thing is true. You re...
Every story this week has the same word hiding inside it, even when nobody says it out loud. Google built an agent that runs all day and all night, inside your files, inside your email, without waiting to be asked. Anthropic quietly loosened one of its own safety guardrails, the same week researchers proved AI...
The Machine Signed Off, But A Person Gets Blamed. There s a number in this story that needs to be addressed. Eight thousand one hundred death benefit decisions. The VA s own inspector general looked at them. Eight thousand had a significant error. That s ninety-eight percent. Not ninety-eight percent perfect. Ninety-eight percent wrong, or wrong enough that...