Fitoussi’s stated motive is fear that AI will end human writing. He is an associate member of Frst, a Paris fund that finances AI startups and began life as Otium Ventures under the Catholic ...

The common factor across the chains was a refrigeration-control platform reachable over the network and running software a year past its fix. European law covers part of this. The Cyber Resilience Act ...

The Academie Goncourt struck a novel from its longlist on 25 September, four days after an anonymous account with 92 followers declared it the work of a machine. The evidence was a single commercial ...

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team gave Qwen3.5-9B access to Opus 4.8 as an advisor and measured whether the advice made the small model better at setting up inference on unfamiliar hardware. Success rates ...

A philosophy department chair at Williams College argued in the New York Times last week that writing is separable from thinking, that essays persist because they are easy to grade, and that ...

A magic trick is a trick. It misrepresents reality. What the Cloudflare CEO published as bot traffic increasing, is a trick. He misrepresents reality. The explanation is simple. The claim is false as ...

The right column is the simple math as a story. If annualized revenue means “this month times twelve,” then dividing each month’s hallucination by twelve gives you what they actually made each month.

30 April 2026, 16:33:37 UTC. Canonical’s incident monitoring system marks blog.ubuntu.com as Service Down. Within ten minutes the rest of the company’s public web was down as well: the main site ...

Microsoft has published an “agent governance toolkit” that promises to make AI safer with identity, audit, and policy enforcement. The code does not deliver, however, because the authentication ...

Some historians were sitting around a table asking “who killed more people, Stalin or Elon Musk“. This has been a topic ever since “DOGE” announced their campaign to destroy USAID as Musk’s revenge ...

Update April 21, 2026: Nicholas Carlini wrote me personally to confirm that he found CVE-2026-4747 using Mythos Preview. This means the bug was not among those in his February 5 paper. His ...