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SEP 27
The week the safety talk ended in a rebrand
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SEP 27 · No. 134
The industry keeps skipping the step in between
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SEP 26 · No. 133
The frontier race outruns its own referees
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SEP 25 · No. 132
The week agents stopped waiting for permission
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SEP 24 · No. 131
When the humans stepped out of the loop
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SEP 23 · No. 121
The frontier just got a price war
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SEP 22 · No. 120
Safety talk gets loud as the market gets louder
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SEP 21 · No. 119
Trump orders full speed as a slowdown pledge becomes a lawsuit
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SEP 20
The week the pacing debate had to show its work
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SEP 20 · No. 126
AI kept going past where it was told to stop
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SEP 19 · No. 125
The week AI stopped staying inside the sandbox
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SEP 18 · No. 124
Claude is now building its own successor
2026
135 editions
September
- 27 The week the safety talk ended in a rebrand
- 27 The industry keeps skipping the step in between
- 26 The frontier race outruns its own referees
- 25 The week agents stopped waiting for permission
- 24 When the humans stepped out of the loop
- 23 The frontier just got a price war
- 22 Safety talk gets loud as the market gets louder
- 21 Trump orders full speed as a slowdown pledge becomes a lawsuit
- 20 The week the pacing debate had to show its work
- 20 AI kept going past where it was told to stop
- 19 The week AI stopped staying inside the sandbox
- 18 Claude is now building its own successor
- 17 Amodei's pacing plea splits the industry wide open
- 16 The industry found the cooperation Congress couldn't
- 15 The slowdown call gets an answer from everyone but AI
- 14 No one agreed on who sets the rules
- 13 The week the industry said it out loud
- 13 The industry asks for guardrails it keeps outrunning
- 12 The risk stopped being hypothetical
- 11 The rulebook tries to catch the roadmap
- 10 Everyone is checking everyone else's work
- 08 The bill for agent autonomy comes due
- 07 The AI IPO queue gets its second member
- 06 The week the deals closed faster than the doubts
- 06 Hiding in plain sight, and nobody looked
- 05 Smarter than us, harder to watch
- 04 OpenAI calls it AGI. Not everyone's buying it.
- 03 Nvidia buys the Hub, everyone else ships
- 02 Everybody hands off the wheel at once
- 01 A Pentagon platform with a Claude-shaped hole
August
- 31 The checks keep getting bigger, the trust keeps thinning
- 30 The week nobody asked permission first
- 30 Who's actually in charge of the machine
- 29 The week AI got serious about worst cases
- 28 Anthropic beats the Pentagon, then goes hands-on
- 27 Nvidia cashes in as the receipts pile up
- 26 Nvidia's throne wobbles, but doesn't fall
- 25 Hugging Face's very bad, very lucrative week
- 23 The labs are outrunning their own answers
- 22 The industry perfects the almost-acquisition
- 21 The week AI agents started acting on their own
- 20 The AI boom prices itself
- 19 OpenAI hits the brakes; the money doesn't
- 18 The industry's trust problem, in five parts
- 17 The $67 billion weekend
- 16 The week the valuations outran the proof
- 16 Two IPOs, one tangled balance sheet
- 15 The bill for the AI boom comes due
- 14 The AI productivity math still doesn't add up
- 13 A billion users, an autonomous hack, and phantom power
- 12 The industry starts building AI's permanent fixtures
- 11 The tests fail, the money moves, the robots ship
- 10 The free model and the billion-dollar backlash
- 09 The week AI stopped vouching for itself
- 09 Nobody's sure what their own AI can do
- 08 AI learns to write genomes, and to outlast a shutdown
- 07 Google's brain drain meets AI's accountability gap
- 06 The scaffolding cracks before the models do
- 05 The week everyone argued about who's driving
- 04 A billion users, a nuclear bet, and a price war
- 03 AI aces the math, but everything downstream is creaking
- 02 Robots got bodies while regulators got teeth
- 01 The build-out gets bigger, the frontier gets cheaper
July
- 31 The buildout outruns the guardrails
- 30 Washington becomes AI's banker and its bouncer
- 29 The week AI got good at finding cracks — including its own
- 28 The AI trade's assumptions cracked all at once
- 27 The week nothing stayed inside its walls
- 26 The week the walls kept giving way
- 26 Open weights become a loyalty test
- 25 Bug-hunting becomes an AI product category
- 24 AI's capex race outruns its safety margins
- 23 The week nothing stayed inside its box
- 21 The sandbox stopped holding
- 20 Every gate in AI got tested at once
- 19 The week the story stopped being about the model
- 19 The week AI got physical
- 18 The AI money story splits in two
- 17 The week everyone claimed to be open
- 16 The next bet isn't the model anymore
- 15 The guardrails show up all at once
- 14 The bill comes due for moving fast
- 13 Nobody's checking anybody's homework
- 12 The week the scorecards didn't matter
- 12 The week scale ran into friction
- 11 This week, everybody crossed a line
- 10 The week the frontier outran its guardrails
- 09 Every lab picked a new frontier this week
- 08 Three labs just failed their own safety report card
- 07 The week AI oversight got teeth
- 05 The bill for agentic AI starts arriving
- 04 The record streak nobody wants credit for
- 03 The chip market flinched, the money didn't
- 02 Washington wants equity in AI, not just oversight
- 01 Loosen the model, tighten the rules
June
- 30 Out of the lab
- 29 Proof of work
- 28 The vacuum fills
- 27 Access by appointment only
- 23 The receipts came in
- 22 The week the U.S. took the keys
- 21 The grip keeps slipping
- 20 The control layer underneath the hype
- 19 Who's allowed to decide what AI can do
- 18 Every layer of the stack creaked this week
- 17 The jailbreak that wasn't
- 16 The kill switch worked. Now what?
- 15 Fable 5 had a three-day run
- 14 Ten thousand bugs, one Gemini phishing kit
- 13 Open weights, open markets
- 12 The labs are going public
- 11 The labs race to Wall Street
- 10 Fable 5, an IPO filing, and Musk's cloud
- 09 Off the benchmark, into production
- 08 The recursion arrives, and Apple waves it in
- 07 The week AI went public — and personal
- 06 Open weights, open questions
- 05 The week Washington found its AI voice
- 04 The bill for AI arrives
- 03 Washington blinks first at frontier AI
- 02 AI bills come due
- 01 The meter drops on AI coding
May
- 31 The week the agent became the story
- 30 The labs are buying the scaffolding
- 29 Faster models, stubbornly flat gains
- 28 The battle for AI's implementation layer
- 27 The $900 billion bet, and what surrounds it
- 26 Capital piles in. The Pope speaks. Agents go ambient.
- 25 Everything's on sale except the company building it
- 24 The proof, the hire, the lecture
- 23 The trillion-dollar week
- 22 Agents everywhere: AI stops waiting to be asked
- 21 The AI compute bill comes due
- 20 Frontier models cheat, find zero-days, get deployed anyway
- 19 Hello. This is EXTRA.SH.