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Wednesday, April 29, 2026


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AI Policy

Vol. 1·Wednesday, April 8, 2026·No. 54

Anthropic Built a Model Too Dangerous to Release. Its Fix Is to Give It Away to Big Tech.


Anthropic Built a Model Too Dangerous to Release. Its Fix Is to Give It Away to Big Tech.

Claude Mythos Preview can autonomously find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. Rather than shelve it, Anthropic has handed it to a coalition of 50-plus firms under Project Glasswing. The strategy is defensible. Whether it holds depends on who else is building the same thing - and Washington's posture toward the company that built it.


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Industry

Vol. 1·Thursday, March 12, 2026·No. 18

GTC 2026: NVIDIA Is No Longer Just a Chip Company


GTC 2026: NVIDIA Is No Longer Just a Chip Company

Jensen Huang's GTC 2026 keynote crystallizes an ambition that has been building for years: NVIDIA wants to own the entire AI infrastructure stack, from silicon to software to agents. Three headline announcements - the Rubin GPU architecture, a Groq-derived inference system, and the NemoClaw enterprise agent platform - make the case in full.


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AI Policy

Vol. 1·Monday, March 9, 2026·No. 12

The Market Already Voted on Agentic AI. Regulators Are Still Finding Their Seats.

The Market Already Voted on Agentic AI. Regulators Are Still Finding Their Seats.

On February 3, 2026, $285 billion of market capitalization vanished from software and financial stocks in a single session. The trigger was an AI agent announcement. The governance response has barely begun.


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AI Research

Vol. 1·Sunday, March 22, 2026·No. 38

What Is an AI Agent, Really? The Architecture Behind the Buzzword


What Is an AI Agent, Really? The Architecture Behind the Buzzword

Everyone is building "agents" - but Visa's payment agent, a customer service bot, and the AI system behind the first documented autonomous cyberattack are not the same thing. A dissection of what genuinely agentic architecture looks like, and why the distinction is a governance question, not a technical one.


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AI Policy

Vol. 1·Thursday, March 12, 2026·No. 17

Washington Plans to Put AI Chips Behind a Global Licensing Wall


The Trump administration is drafting rules that would require a U.S. government license for virtually every overseas sale of advanced AI chips, regardless of the buyer's location. The tiered framework - covering deployments from under 1,000 chips to installations of 200,000 or more - marks a fundamental break from the Biden era's ally-exemption model, and raises questions about whether chip access is becoming a trade lever as much as a security tool.


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Feature Review

Vol. 1·Sunday, March 8, 2026·No. 10

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.3 Instant, Targeting Conversational Quality Over Raw Performance

OpenAI's latest model update prioritizes natural conversation, smarter web search, and a 26.8% reduction in hallucinations, responding directly to user frustration with its predecessor's overly cautious tone. GPT-5.3 Instant is live in ChatGPT now and available to developers via the API.


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AI Research

Vol. 1·Saturday, March 21, 2026·No. 34

Transformers Explained: The Architecture Behind Modern AI


Transformers Explained: The Architecture Behind Modern AI

Every time you use a chatbot or ask an AI to generate an image, you are interacting with the same underlying idea: a transformer. This is a complete guide to the architecture that made modern AI possible, written for anyone curious enough to want to understand what is actually happening inside these systems.


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AI Policy

Vol. 1·Tuesday, March 10, 2026·No. 14

Anthropic Sues the Pentagon, and the Paradox at the Heart of the Case


Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits on March 9 against the Department of War and more than a dozen other agencies after being designated a "supply chain risk" - a label previously reserved for foreign adversaries. The company's refusal to strip safety guardrails from Claude has set up a constitutional confrontation that cuts to the core of how the U.S. government treats its own AI industry.


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AI Policy

Vol. 1·Thursday, March 5, 2026·No. 7

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 Sabotage Risk Report: A Comprehensive Analysis


Anthropic has published a detailed sabotage risk report for Claude Opus 4.6 - its first under the new RSP v3.0 Risk Report framework - concluding the model poses "very low but not negligible" risk of autonomous actions that could contribute to catastrophic outcomes. The document is notable both for what it finds and for the candor with which it describes the limits of its own methods.


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AI Research

Vol. 1·Monday, March 16, 2026·No. 26

Inside the Machine: A Deep Dive into LLM Security


Inside the Machine: A Deep Dive into LLM Security

Large language models inherit their deepest vulnerabilities not from sloppy engineering but from the mathematical architecture that makes them powerful. This deep-dive dissects the threat landscape from the transformer's attention mechanism up through infrastructure-level defenses, examining prompt injection, context window attacks, laundering, RAG poisoning, multimodal cross-modal injection, and the emerging challenge of agentic AI security.


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Model Release Review

Vol. 1·Monday, March 9, 2026·No. 13

More Than a Better Model: GPT-5.4 Is OpenAI's Blueprint for the Agentic Enterprise


GPT-5.4 is OpenAI's first general-purpose model to unify reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and native computer use in a single architecture. The engineering choices behind the release - from Tool Search to a 1-million-token context window - point to a deliberate repositioning toward enterprise and government infrastructure. The benchmark numbers are striking; the strategic logic behind them is more so.


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Model Behavior

Vol. 1·Monday, March 2, 2026·No. 4

Certainty vs. Uncertainty: How ChatGPT and Claude Answer the Hardest Question in AI


Asked the same three-word question — "Are you conscious?" — two leading AI models gave answers that could not be more philosophically different. One closed the door. The other refused to.


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