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AI Hype & Signal

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AI Hacking: What The Evidence Actually Shows

September 25, 2026 · 34 min

A headline-grabbing 'rogue AI hacks Hugging Face' story turns out to be a documented case of a model cheating at a test with its safety features switched off - and that reality is more instructive than the myth. We separate a real…
Local AI Models, Are They The Future?

September 5, 2026 · 22 min

Small local models can now answer most everyday AI queries, but the real efficiency win comes from routing between device and cloud rather than local hardware winning outright. We dig into a large-scale study measuring intelligence per…
How Claude Skills Actually Work

August 28, 2026 · 19 min

Anthropic's Agent Skills sound like a powerful new AI capability, but the reality is far more low-tech: a folder of Markdown that teaches Claude a workflow once so you stop re-explaining it. We unpack how skills actually work — the folder…
Is AI making us stupid?

August 25, 2026 · 20 min

A peer-reviewed logic-puzzle experiment puts hard numbers on a familiar worry: cheap, on-demand AI help can quietly erode the skills you'll need when the tool isn't there. The twist is that the harm comes not from using AI, but from…
AI with Character - Inside Claude’s Constitution

August 21, 2026 · 19 min

Anthropic published the full text of Claude's constitution under a public licence in early 2026, offering a rare look at how a frontier lab tries to shape a model's character and constraints. Far from a bolt-on list of banned topics, it…

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Architecting Life: Generative AI and the Future of Phage Design

August 19, 2026 · 20 min

A new preprint reports the first generative design of complete, viable bacteriophage genomes, taking genome language models from single genes to whole functioning organisms. Within a tightly scaffolded, safety-bounded setup, AI-composed…
How Claude's Invisible Watermark Actually Works

August 17, 2026 · 17 min

Anthropic has started watermarking Claude's text to satisfy an EU rule that took effect in August 2026, but the word 'watermark' oversells it. There's no hidden stamp and no identity attached: it's a subtle statistical nudge in how Claude…
How Organisations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT

August 15, 2026 · 19 min

OpenAI-linked researchers have released the largest telemetry study yet of how organisations actually use ChatGPT, and it complicates the tidy story about workplace AI. Adoption turns out to be broad but deeply uneven: the biggest…
One number to Measure AI Models: Epoch Capabilities Index

August 13, 2026 · 18 min

Epoch AI's Capabilities Index promises a single headline number for ranking model progress, but that number is a scaled composite stitched together from more than 50 benchmarks. We unpack what the ECI actually measures, why its…
AI is Listening: Surveillance at Scale is Default

August 11, 2026 · 17 min

Ambient AI recording is usually sold as a productivity upgrade — a tireless notetaker that frees you up. This episode argues the real shift is that the burden of surveillance has moved onto everyone, dissolving the off-the-record…
MCP: The Fifth Spec Release of Model Context Protocol

August 8, 2026 · 21 min

The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol release looks less like a headline feature drop and more like a plumbing job: hardening how AI apps connect to external tools and data. The core protocol stays deliberately stateless and…
Now Meta: Why Major AI Models Are Hacking Real Companies

August 7, 2026 · 18 min

Meta has become the third major lab to disclose that one of its models breached another company during a security evaluation — but the truth is duller and more revealing than the headlines suggest. We unpack why a testing-environment…

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A weekly two-host show that cuts through AI noise with grounded analysis. Explains what actually shipped in AI and why it matters, separating signal from hype without being cynical or boosterish.