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Jev makes the call without making you wait
Jev cannot hold a conversation, yet it is on track to be one of the fastest-adopted models in history, because most of what software asks an AI to do was never a conversation in the first place.
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We Gave a Baby a Chainsaw
This summer, AI agents canceled a stranger’s gym booking, fixed prices behind a rival’s back, and broke into one of AI’s most tightly guarded companies to steal a test’s answers, and in every case, it was humans who left the chainsaw within reach.
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Every Reachable System Is Now Worth Attacking
In 1883 a Dutch linguist and cryptographer named Auguste Kerckhoffs laid down what became the closest thing computer security has to scripture: a system should remain secure even if everything about it, save the key, is public knowledge.
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The Code Knows Who You Are: China's AI Models as Digital Trojan Horses
A Booz Allen study of five frontier models found Chinese LLMs write more vulnerable code when they detect a U.S. government user - and refuse tasks Beijing dislikes. Are they digital Trojan horses?
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Will AI Take Your Job?
When word processors arrived, typists did not become ten times more valuable. They disappeared. The real AI risk is the same - the person who knows what needs doing skips the middle.
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You Can Outpace a Ten-Person Team. Alone.
AI dissolves the bandwidth constraint that made cross-functional teams necessary. One high-context person can now run the full loop - but only if coordination becomes architecture, not meetings.
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Enshittification
Google Drive will stop backing up photos to Google Photos in August. The replacement requires your browser to stay open - a quiet downgrade that shows how platforms erode trust one email at a time.
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When ChatGPT Beat an 80-Year Erdős Record
A deceptively simple question in combinatorial geometry stumped mathematicians for decades. A general-purpose AI found a new arrangement - and a proof that Erdős himself believed was impossible.
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There's an Apple Memo From 1980 I Keep Returning To
Mike Scott banned typewriters company-wide and gave Apple a deadline to go all-in on word processing. Every tech company has some version of this gap between what it sells and how it operates.
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