Last week ended on a cliffhanger of sorts.
AI #160: What Passes For a Pause
A lot happened, but by today’s standards this felt like a quiet week.
It’s Back. Congress Gears Up for Year-End Fight Over Moratorium on AI Laws. | TechPolicy.Press
A proposed federal moratorium on enforcement of state AI laws failed last summer, but lawmakers have resurrected the idea, writes Cristiano Lima-Strong.
AI #182: Pause For Reflection
This was a week of quiet aftermath, an opportunity to process recent events and start to figure out the path forward.
AI #158: The Department of War
This was the worst week I have had in quite a while, maybe ever.
Found fast, fixed slow: The gap the AI clearinghouse must close
Trump's executive order gave agencies 30 days to build an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse. HackerOne's Ilona Cohen on why patching, not scanning, must come first.
Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us
A five-year scenario about AI and Europe's impending slide into irrelevance, with a 2034 epilogue that describes how the collapse of the European model could have been prevented.
The EU AI Act Is Ready – Interdependent Thoughts
A final draft of the European AI Regulation is circulating (here’s an almost 900 page PDF). The coming days I will read it with curiosity.
Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026
As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI.
How the Anthropic saga could threaten American AI dominance
The shutdown of top AI models reverberates abroad.
Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated
Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.
The AI Takeover Has Arrived
...but it looks completely different from what we imagined
It's open season for refusing AI
There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.
AI agents are science fiction not yet ready for primetime
It all started with J.A.R.V.I.S.
