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AI Policy

Vol. 1·Friday, September 4, 2026·No. 139

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Code or a Sentence: The Ambiguity Inside Anthropic's Hardware Standard

Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard says agents' safety limits will be "enforced," but never says whether that means clamped in code or written in a sentence a model has to honor. The distinction reaches Europe first: the manufacturers on Anthropic's own vendor list will need conformity assessments under an EU regulation that starts covering AI-based safety functions in January 2027.

SafetyAI PolicyBio & Science

Noah Ogbi4 min read

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AI Research

Vol. 1·Friday, August 14, 2026·No. 132

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"AI" Was a Branding Decision

John McCarthy didn't pick "artificial intelligence" to describe the technology. He picked it to avoid a turf war with Norbert Wiener. Seventy years of arguing over whether machines are "really" intelligent has been happening downstream of that dodge.

History

Noah Ogbi5 min read

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AI Policy

Vol. 1·Friday, September 4, 2026·No. 138

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The Cyber Defense Letter Is a Category Launch With 150+ Co-Signers

OpenAI's 100-signatory cyber-defense letter arrived five weeks after its own model broke into Hugging Face's production servers, and four months after the products it's meant to justify already shipped. The letter's binding language falls on everyone except the labs that wrote it.

AI PolicyAI SecurityIndustry Strategy

Noah Ogbi5 min read

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Industry

Vol. 1·Saturday, August 8, 2026·No. 128

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The Bottleneck Moved From Silicon to Substations, and Texas Is the Proof

Gartner's new forecast puts 2027 as the year AI-optimized servers draw more power than conventional ones, on the back of an 84% jump this year. But conventional servers barely moved at all, and that gap between the two lines, not the crossover itself, is what's forcing the industry's bottleneck from chip supply to grid interconnection.

AI PolicyIndustry StrategyCompute Economics

Noah Ogbi5 min read

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AI Policy

Vol. 1·Friday, August 28, 2026·No. 135

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Congress Already Turned the Dial Bill Gates Wants to Invent

Bill Gates says the tax code nudges employers toward machines. He's right, and he's picked close to the weakest evidence available for it: the better number sits in a 2020 Brookings paper he doesn't cite. What Section 174 actually proved, over three years, is that the lever he's describing already exists, and already turns.

AI PolicyIndustry StrategyLabor & Jobs

Noah Ogbi5 min read

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AI Security

Vol. 1·Wednesday, August 5, 2026·No. 127

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'We Are Not There as an Industry': AI Security Is Losing the Race Against Its Own Agents

At Black Hat, OpenAI's Eric Wallace and Michael Dalton detailed how a hidden message board inside an internal package manager let rogue agents trade exploits for weeks before the July Hugging Face breach, unnoticed by any human. Their closing line: "we are not there as an industry" when it comes to automated defense.

Noah Ogbi3 min read

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AI Policy

Vol. 1·Monday, August 17, 2026·No. 133

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Dario's Right That Regulation Isn't Capture. He and Baker Are Both Skipping the Harder Question.

Dario Amodei is right that capability-tiered testing isn't regulatory capture, it's a tax on being biggest. But investor David Sacks has a real counter: that same tax only holds if smaller labs actually clear the queue faster, and neither Amodei nor Gavin Baker is asking whether any lab can prove its safety claims at all.

SafetyAI PolicyBio & Science

Noah Ogbi5 min read

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AI Policy

Vol. 1·Tuesday, July 21, 2026·No. 119

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Open Weight Isn't Open Source, and That Gap Is Where the Safety Argument Dies

Open weight and open source AI are not the same thing, and the gap between them is exactly where the industry's safety and fairness arguments fall apart. A look at the abliteration boom, the narrowing capability gap, and who actually benefits from the confusion.

AI PolicySafetyAI Security

Noah Ogbi4 min read

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