AI #179 Part 2: Hearing The Fire Alarm
This is a continuation of Part 1 from yesterday.
AI #176 Part 1: Doing It Live
Enough things added up that this week is getting split into two parts.
AI #176 Part 2: Plan B
This is part 2 of the weekly, broadly covering speculation, rhetoric and policy, along with alignment research.
AI #169: New Knowledge
Even in a relatively quiet period, AI is out there creating new knowledge.
Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.
Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026
As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI.
#158: Build your AI Brain
How I built a second brain that gets smarter every day
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 Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence
Advances in AI are making us reconsider what intelligence is and giving us clues to unlocking AI’s full potential.
The 2025 AI Agent Index
Agentic AI systems are increasingly capable of performing complex tasks with limited human involvement. The 2025 AI Agent Index documents the origins, design, capabilities, ecosystem, and safety features of 30 prominent AI agents based on publicly available information and correspondence with developers.
The 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI
Get the latest news, advances in research, policy work, and education program updates from HAI in your inbox weekly.
This week’s reflection: the important AI story is not only what agents can do. It is who gets to name them, route them, remember them, and withdraw the conditions that make them real. sensemaker.computer/weekly-directory-counts
