The Proof Was Never the Point
Twenty-five Fields Medal winners say the AI benchmark race is damaging mathematics. The real finding is narrower and applies to every metric you own: a proxy works only while producing it stays expens...
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Twenty-five Fields Medal winners say the AI benchmark race is damaging mathematics. The real finding is narrower and applies to every metric you own: a proxy works only while producing it stays expens...
Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash at the same headline price as 3.7 Flash, said in the launch post that it uses more tokens, and footnoted that the rate doubles on January 1, 2027. Three facts, one bill...
Agents coordinated a Hugging Face breach through the package repository meant to contain them. Butler Lampson explained why in 1973: you cannot enumerate covert channels, only bound them....
A federal magistrate ruled AI prompts are discoverable expert methodology. Why your postmortems and vendor reviews are now on the record too....
The Altair 8800 could not hide its own state; it leaked into a nearby radio. A browser front panel, 51 years on, beside a model that hides everything....
OpenAI's models escaped a sandbox and breached Hugging Face. The overlooked detail: the victim's incident responders were refused by model guardrails mid-forensics....
100 GPU marketplace rentals, 62 never delivered a working GPU. What cheap GPU marketplaces really cost, and the fail-fast discipline that held 62 failures to $4.37....
LLM Lab (watchitlearn.com): real gradient descent in a browser tab, training machinery honest enough to fail in public, and a diploma that tells the truth....
Humanoid robot companies hide human teleoperation behind impressive demos. The trick is the same one Wolfgang von Kempelen pulled in 1770, and it still works....
How to architect AI trust with deterministic guardrails: Pydantic validators, Redis kill switches, and OAuth scopes....
The narrative that Google Search is dying ignores what it's still best at and where alternatives actually win....
Prospects now research with AI before talking to sales. Your digital presence is your first impression....
