Posts tagged "governance"
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Friday Roundup #18: The Terms of Access
The week the frontier reopened — but every door came with conditions: two flagship models handed back on a leash, agency made cheap enough to actually hold, the back office thinning to pay for it, and governance shipping as a product from Sacramento to Brussels.
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Friday Roundup #17: Custody Battles
The week AI stopped being a capability and became a possession people fight over: a model that's both a federal lever and a theft target, real wins wrapped in asterisks, the version-control stack splintering, agents reaching for your card, and a governance scramble from Oslo to the California ballot.
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Friday Roundup #16: Governance Everywhere
The week AI left the demo room and hit institutions: a federal kill switch for frontier models, OpenAI's $34B burn meeting workslop, bounded agency as the real agent product, assistants as the new attack surface, and voter files becoming enforcement data.
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Friday Roundup #14: The ROI Story Cracked
Ed Zitron declared AI has no ROI, the billionaires got scared, and research blamed remote work — not AI — for the graduate slump. Underneath the sentiment turn, a credential worm rode official Red Hat npm packages, Zig called AI-written code 'invariably garbage,' vendors pitched agents as inescapable while publishing containment docs, and the federal workforce got NDAs in the same cycle as an 'anti-technology extremist' label.
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Friday Roundup #13: AI Became an Authority Story
Pope Leo XIV issued an AI encyclical and put an Anthropic co-founder on the Vatican stage. Anthropic hit $47B run-rate while Apollo and Blackstone shopped $36B in chip debt. Korean unions bargained the AI windfall. Illinois passed a real law. Blue Origin's only pad exploded. The bill underneath the model story is now visible.