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Casey Newton’s hands-on take on OpenAI’s Dots agents at DevDay: capable coworking inside ChatGPT, paid-only positioning versus Meta Muse, and the trust/safety tradeoffs of always-on agents.
9 min · 2,024 words
It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs
Cal Newport argues frontier AI labs have grown brazen in public messaging about agent harms and extinction risk, and that Congress should investigate rather than let private companies set the narrative.
2 min · 564 words
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
A satirical Civilian piece on frontier labs competing to look the most existentially dangerous—skewering safety theater and marketing-as-doom.
3 min · 674 words
Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
Selling snake oil to the United States Congress is an ancient American craft, and the frontier artificial intelligence industry is currently attempting the most audacious hustle in modern corporate history.
7 min · 1,701 words
A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
Twenty-five Fields Medallists, including Terence Tao, argue AI labs' rush to solve math benchmarks is misaligned with mathematics' real goal: understanding, attribution, and human transmission.
4 min · 1,018 words