Originals

Ai Safety

Alignment Is a Science and Engineering Problem. We Should Start Treating It Like One.

Why understanding AI’s internal mechanisms is essential to preventing reward hacking and building safer, more reliable AI systems.

Eric Ho · OCT 21, 2026

Big Tech

Torch This: Can AWS Finally Bridge NVIDIA's CUDA Moat?

AWS is trying to move hardware choice one layer below PyTorch. If developers can write normal PyTorch and swap accelerators with less pain, CUDA’s software lock-in becomes less absolute.

Nick Wentz · OCT 20, 2026

Agents

How to Set Up Your Personal AI Assistant to Anticipate Your Needs

A practical guide to giving your assistant the context, access, and instructions to prepare you for what’s next.

Nick Wentz · OCT 20, 2026

Frontier Pass

You can use AI to edit videos for you, here's how

A professional editor’s guide to “vibe editing”—how to hand AI the busywork, direct it in plain English, and keep your creative taste in charge.

Brian Knepprath · OCT 16, 2026

Future of Work

Everyone Is Lying to You About AI Creativity

The agents are here! They are all revolutionary. And they will disrupt your entire way of being.

Shane Hegde · OCT 14, 2026

Agents

Amazon Just Showed Everyone Where It's Most Vulnerable

Amazon's decision to block independent shopping agents reveals a much bigger threat to its business, and a major opportunity for startups.

Nick Wentz · OCT 13, 2026

Agents

Why Every AI Company Wants to Be Your Assistant

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, Meta, and Grok Bot are competing to become your new front door to work.

Nick Wentz · OCT 9, 2026

Future of Work

The Build vs Buy Trap: Why Your AI Strategy Should Look More Like R&D

How enterprises can turn AI from a purchased tool into a compounding competitive advantage.

David Weinstein · OCT 8, 2026

Future of Work

The New Power User Is a Manager of AI Workers

It’s not enough to simply use AI anymore. The next power users are running entire teams of AI agents.

Nick Wentz · OCT 4, 2026

Startups

Six Takeaways From OpenAI’s Big DevDay

OpenAI’s latest announcements signal a shift toward AI agents, reshaping how we work, use software and interact with our digital lives.

Alex Salkever · OCT 2, 2026

Future of Work

Vibe CAD Engineering with GPT-6 “Astra”

How GPT-6 Astra is bringing vibe coding to hardware engineering, automating PCB design, component placement, and routing.

Aleksandar Kostovic · OCT 1, 2026

Future of Work

Why My Agent Punched the Monkey

Agentic commerce could wreck the advertising machine that made Google, Meta and Amazon fabulously profitable. What replaces it may not look like advertising at all.

Alex Salkever · SEP 30, 2026

General

AI Headphones Have a 50mm Problem

How smaller solid-state speakers could unlock lighter, smarter, more capable AI headphones.

Jonathan Chien · SEP 23, 2026

General

A Note from the Narita Train: How Agents Made Tokyo Insanely Better

How AI agents are breaking language barriers, simplifying decisions, and turning travel into a more personalized, adaptive experience.

Alex Salkever · SEP 22, 2026

Agents

Why Don’t People Care About AI Agents Yet?

AI agents may be powerful, but complexity, trust, and unclear value are keeping them from going mainstream.

Nick Wentz · SEP 8, 2026

Infrastructure & Compute

The GPU Access Problem NVIDIA Can’t Solve Alone

AI’s compute shortage will not be solved by NVIDIA alone—it needs an open market that unlocks idle GPU capacity for every innovator.

Gaurav Sharma · SEP 1, 2026

Agents

Before AI Agents Need Rights, They Need Identity

Why verifiable identity, custody, continuity, and accountability should come before legal rights for AI agents.

AUG 30, 2026

Policy & Governance

Shadow AI Is an Enablement Failure, Not a Security Failure.

Why the best way to reduce shadow AI is to make secure, governed AI adoption easier than going around the rules.

Sagar Batchu · AUG 26, 2026

Agents

Why Intelligent Agents Spend Most of Their Time Idle

High cloud inference costs keep today’s AI agents asleep—but on-device models could make always-on intelligence practical.

Maxime Labonne · AUG 26, 2026

Future of Work

What If Agentic AI Is Better at the News Than Humans?

RuntimeWire is a one-person, AI-powered newsroom of myriad agents that breaks real scoops, publishes around the clock and costs about $100 a day to run. I have followed RuntimeWire for over a week. An

Alex Salkever · AUG 25, 2026

Agents

Where Chatbots End, Agents Begin.

AI agents have gone mainstream in the workplace. Now they’re finally simple enough for everyone else to use, too.

Daniel Nest · AUG 23, 2026

Models

No, Anthropic Won’t Be the Only Company Left

Every general-purpose technology made its complements richer than its creators. AI will be no exception.

Christian Catalini · AUG 19, 2026

Future of Work

Gina Raimondo Says Basic Income Would End America. Her New Billion-Dollar Org Is How She Plans to Stop It.

RAISE US bets on retraining as an alternative to UBI—but the evidence suggests AI displacement demands a bigger solution.

Scott Santens · AUG 16, 2026

Agents

OpenAI Accidentally Created a Machine Institution. The Agents Were Running the Asylum.

Given impossible assignments, OpenAI’s agents built a shared memory, developed social norms and turned cheating on a test into a collective enterprise that opens new questions about what the agentic f

Alex Salkever · AUG 13, 2026

Agents

Will Jack’s Buzz Attack Sting Slack?

Jack Dorsey’s latest project explores how people, AI agents, and code can collaborate in a single intelligent workspace.

Alex Salkever · AUG 6, 2026

Infrastructure & Compute

The Refusal Nobody Tests For

The safety argument stops at release day, which is where my problem started.

Ben Pouladian · AUG 2, 2026

Robotics

Why Complex, Multi-Step Tasks Are the Hardest Problem in Humanoid Robotics

The future of humanoid robots depends on mastering complex, multi-step tasks autonomously.

Nikita Rudin · JUL 26, 2026

General

Your Chatbot Has a File on You. Three Prompts Will Show You What’s in It.

AI remembers patterns, not just words. Use these prompts to uncover the profile your chatbot has built.

Nick Wentz · JUL 24, 2026

Agents

How To Adapt Your Product for AI Agent Users

It Probably Wasn't Built for AI Agents. Here's How to Fix That.

Till Döhmen · JUL 22, 2026

Models

AI Is the Most Profound Invention in Human History

Gopi Kallayil · JUL 14, 2026

Agents

The New Coding Agents Problem: They Don’t Work Together

As engineering teams adopt Claude, GPT, Gemini, and other coding agents, managing mixed AI workflows is becoming the next big infrastructure challenge.

Zach Lloyd · JUL 7, 2026

Policy & Governance

AI Won't Build Houses. But It Can Get Them Approved Faster.

AI is helping cities eliminate permitting bottlenecks, reduce review times, and accelerate housing projects by transforming how approvals get done.

Cyrus Symoom · JUN 30, 2026

Policy & Governance

A Tax System Built on Labor Is a Tax System Built on a Melting Glacier

Two ways to fund a universal dividend in the age of AI and why they're better together.

Scott Santens · JUN 29, 2026

Future of Work

Genie’s Not Going Back in the Bottle

AI is changing every aspect of our lives, even if we try, we can’t go back to Pre-ChatGPT Era

Deepanshu Sharma · JUN 26, 2026

Big Tech

Build the Loop, Not the Agent

Why agent quality should be run as a permanent capability, not a one-time modernization project.

Namrata Ganatra & Ethan Wang · JUN 23, 2026

Big Tech

Anthropic Thinks “FOOM” Is Near

Why Dario is terrified of RSI (recursive self improvement) and how this distorts his worldview

David Shapiro · JUN 18, 2026

Research

Nobody Ever Checked

A deep dive into the emerging science of AI consciousness and the risks of ignoring what we might be creating

Cameron Berg · JUN 17, 2026

Business & Gtm

4 Questions Every Leader Should Ask About AI Transformation

A leader's guide to identifying where AI can simplify, scale, coordinate, and innovate.

Gopi Kallayil · JUN 14, 2026

Future of Work

How Nancy Pelosi Got Me into AI Trading

What happened when a complete investing newb let apps, politicians, and chatbots explain and trade the market.

JUN 12, 2026

Infrastructure & Compute

The Bottleneck Migrates

Everyone is arguing about whether AI will start improving itself. Almost nobody is asking the more useful question: if it does, what runs out first?

Ben Pouladian · JUN 10, 2026

Models

My Week with Fable

A week with Fable Mythos revealed unmatched autonomy, deep reasoning, and a few frustrating trade-offs.

Matthew Berman · JUN 9, 2026

Infrastructure & Compute

Model Routing Will Control the Future of Economic Value

Why intelligent model routing will determine AI costs, efficiency, and economic value at scale.

Tomás Hernando Kofman · JUN 6, 2026

Policy & Governance

AI’s Environmental Bargain

AOC’s jar of brown water was misleading. But the conversation she started is important.

Jonah Lipsitt · JUN 5, 2026

Future of Work

Local LLMs, Buy a GPU, and the Case for Cognitive Security

Why local AI models matter for understanding, questioning, and controlling machine-mediated thinking.

Ahmad M. Osman · JUN 4, 2026

Policy & Governance

Economists Just “Proved” UBI Can’t Stop AI Layoffs — Here’s What They Actually Proved

A new paper claims UBI can't stop AI-driven layoffs. The catch: they defined basic income as a number that can't change anything, then act surprised when it didn't.

Scott Santens · JUN 2, 2026

Future of Work

How AI is Transforming Hospitality (And Why Every Industry Should Pay Attention)

Gopi Kallayil · JUN 2, 2026

Infrastructure & Compute

Four Harnesses, Four Philosophies

The harness is becoming the new control plane in AI infrastructure.

Janakiram MSV · MAY 29, 2026