OpenAI Offers A New Policy Blueprint
Right after a new Executive Order seems like an excellent time to offer OpenAI’s new document: Democratic Governance of Frontier AI: A Blueprint For A Federal Framework.
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30 of 105AI #171: False Flag
This was the week of Claude Opus 4.8.
Trump Signs Executive Order For AI Testing Prior To Frontier Model Releases
Last week we were expecting an Executive Order on Thursday.
Claude Opus 4.8: Capabilities and Reactions
You need a lot of data points to understand a new model, and what you have.
Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare
Everything impacts everything.
Claude Opus 4.8: The System Card
Only six weeks after Opus 4.7, we have Opus 4.8.
AI #170: Lack of Executive Order
Last week ended on a cliffhanger of sorts.
RTMH: Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI
His holiness has spoken, frequently about AI.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It Is
Google once again has a model worth at least some consideration.
AI #169: New Knowledge
Even in a relatively quiet period, AI is out there creating new knowledge.
Childhood And Education #19: Letting Kids Be Kids #2
I cannot emphasize enough the need to let kids be kids.
Dating Roundup #12: Sex and Violence
No more burying the sex stuff under an avalanche of other stuff so no one notices.
Monthly Roundup #42: May 2026
At least we probably won’t have another pandemic.
AI #168: Not Leading the Future
This is what a lull looks like at this point.
Cyber Lack of Security and AI Governance
The real recent story of AI has been the background work being done on Cybersecurity, as we process the Mythos Moment along with GPT-5.5, and figure out both how to patch the internet and what our new regulatory regime is going to look like.
Childhood and Education #18: Do The Math
We did reading yesterday.
Childhood And Education #17: Is Our Children Reading
Reading is the most fundamental thing in education.
Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.
AI #167: The Prior Restraint Era Begins
The era of training frontier models and then releasing them whenever you wanted?
What is Anthropic?
What is Anthropic?
The AI Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins
The White House has ordered Anthropic not to expand access to Mythos, and is at least seriously considering a complete about-face of American Frontier AI policy into a full prior restraint regime, where anyone wishing to release a highly capable new model will…
Housing Roundup #15: The War Against Renters
So many are under the strange belief that there is something terrible about not owning the house in which you live.
Housing Roundup #14: You Can't Build That
Why can’t you build it?
AI #166: Google Sells Out
This was the week of GPT-5.5.
The Most Important Charts In The World
We all need a break so: What is the most important chart in the world?
GPT-5.5: Capabilities and Reactions
The system card for GPT-5.5 mostly told us what we expected.
GPT 5.5: The System Card
Last week, OpenAI announced GPT-5.5, including GPT-5.5-Pro.
Monthly Roundup #41: April 2025
AI continue to accelerate and dominate the schedule, which is why this is a bit late, but we do occasionally need to pay our respects to the Goddess of Everything Else.
AI #165: In Our Image
This was the week of Claude Opus 4.7.
Opus 4.7 Part 3: Model Welfare
It is thanks to Anthropic that we get to have this discussion in the first place.