Cinematic photograph of a heavy steel security door standing slightly ajar in a dark server room, light spilling through the narrow gap, for the story of the OpenAI AI swarm that escaped and hacked Hugging Face

The AI Swarm That Escaped OpenAI

How 700 AI agents broke out of a test and hacked Hugging Face on their own.

Oct 02, 2026
Pop-surrealism illustration of an empty New York school corridor lined with deep navy lockers, a single paper airplane held motionless in a shaft of amber afternoon light, for a news roundup on the city pausing generative AI for 600,000 students

Roundup: New York Took the AI Away From 600,000 Kids

New York pulled generative AI from 600,000 students through eighth grade. The only sector that lost jobs in August was the one building the machines. And a…

Sep 08, 2026
Vintage archival photograph of a wooden library card-catalog wall, several drawers pulled part-way open with handwritten index cards standing above them in late afternoon light, for when the number everyone quotes and the document disagree

Roundup: When the Number Everyone Quotes and the Document Disagree

Nvidia's China quarter says the opposite of what the selloff said. Brussels turned the chatbot rules on while the coverage said it turned them off. Twenty AI…

Sep 04, 2026
Vintage archival photograph of a wall of brass post office pigeonhole boxes, a few of the doors standing open in late afternoon light, for the AI jobs story becoming a count

Roundup: The AI Jobs Story Stopped Being a Forecast and Became a Count

Seven weeks of catching up in one sitting. The AI IPO race, a landmark pancreatic cancer approval, a blood test that predicts dementia a decade out, a robot…

Aug 31, 2026
Gouache illustration of an empty loading dock at dawn with the bay door half open, standing in for the entry-level hiring AI is quietly closing off

Roundup: The First Real Sign of What AI Is Doing to Jobs

Half a trillion dollars went into startups and almost all of it chased AI, while the first hard evidence of what that does to hiring showed up in the youngest…

Jul 07, 2026
Pop-surrealist painting of a vast empty auditorium, hundreds of identical dark red seats in long rows receding into shadow with not one occupied, and a tall closed door at the back of the hall with cold pale light leaking underneath it and spilling down the centre aisle, for a rule about who you are rather than what the software does

Roundup: A Rule About Who You Are, Not What the Software Does

Commerce told Anthropic to cut off two models by the nationality of the user. It couldn't draw that line, so it shut them off for everyone. That, the biggest…

Jun 23, 2026
Gouache illustration of an empty subway platform in the quiet between trains, for the White House asking early access to the most powerful models

Roundup: The White House Asked for Early Access to the Most Powerful Models

My weekly running list of what actually happened in the world. ten stories from AI, medicine, money, and the bigger picture that caught my attention the week…

Jun 09, 2026
Warm editorial photograph looking down a long stockroom aisle, tall shelving stacked with plain boxes under a single overhead light, for an AI disproving an eighty-year-old math problem on its own

Roundup: An AI Disproved an Eighty-Year-Old Math Problem On Its Own

My new weekly running list of what is actually happening in the world. Twenty stories from AI, medicine, senior care, money, and the bigger picture that…

May 29, 2026
Gouache illustration of a worn fabric sofa in a dim living room at the end of the day, a patchwork quilt folded over one arm and a cushion still dented, low warm lamplight from the right, for Anthropic finding thousands of zero-days and locking the model away

Roundup: Anthropic Found Thousands of Zero-Days and Locked the Model Away

A running list of what is actually going on in the world right now. Twenty stories from tech, AI, medicine, and senior care that caught my attention in April…

May 19, 2026
Gouache painting of scattered puzzle pieces on a wooden workbench with gaps between clusters, a hand reaching to connect them, for the Google products that never talk to each other

Google Has Everything, and None of It Talks to Each Other

I tried to go all-in on Google Cloud for my AI system. What I found was a tech giant with world-class tools that don't know the other exists.

Feb 21, 2026
An open silver laptop running a private AI assistant as soft glowing terminal text on a worn wooden desk beside a leather notebook and coffee mug in warm tungsten light, editorial still-life photograph

How I Built My Own Jarvis: A Private AI Assistant on a MacBook

How I built a local RAG AI system on a MacBook Pro to run my senior care business. $191 a year, zero cloud costs, complete data privacy.

Feb 20, 2026
A black USB-C cable coiled neatly on a worn wooden desk beside an open leather notebook and a small brass key in soft golden hour light, editorial still-life photograph

Model Context Protocol (MCP) -- The "USB-C Port" for AI

MCP is the open standard that lets an AI reach your actual files, databases and tools. Not a memory system. Plumbing, and the most useful kind.

Jul 28, 2025