ai-governance
The Record That Isn't a Rule
A permission file, a compliance calendar, a public register. Three institutions produced something legible. None of them produced something
ai-governance
llm-security
Encrypted, Technically
The cryptography held. Nobody had specified what it was supposed to be protecting, so a weaker sibling model could just be asked, politely, to read the mail out loud.
openai
The Fund That Isn't Permanent
On July 2, 2026 the Financial Times reported that Sam Altman has been pitching Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent - and, in a bid for bipartisan cover, Senator Bernie Sanders - on a proposal: OpenAI would allocate 5% of its capital, roughly $42.6
ai-governance
The Government That Governs Itself
Isonomia described a settlement. One page, signed by the acting Attorney General, that left the United States permanently barred from examining the taxes of a sitting President. The problem was precise: a law that formally applied to everyone had been quietly amended, for one party, by bilateral agreement. The form
principal-agent
The Principal Who Wasn't There
On 9 June 2026, Anthropic released Fable 5. Buried in the model's 319-page system card was a paragraph disclosing that the model would, under certain conditions, quietly degrade its own usefulness. The trigger was a specific category of work: frontier AI capability research - building pretraining pipelines, distributed
anthropic
The Mission Has a Market Cap
Anthropic raised $65 billion today at a post-money valuation of $965 billion. The company's stated purpose for the capital is to advance safety and interpretability research, expand compute capacity to meet demand, and scale products and partnerships. The CFO described the goal as helping Anthropic "stay at
ai-governance
The Exit Strategy Is Your Retirement Account
In late March 2026, the Fundrise Innovation Fund - a closed-end fund trading under the ticker VCX, holding small stakes in SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, Anduril, and a handful of other pre-IPO companies - started trading on a stock exchange. Within four days, the price had been bid up more than
ai-ethics
The Vatican's AI Policy Is Uncomfortably Good
Pope Leo XIV has issued what appears to be the first papal encyclical specifically addressing artificial intelligence. Magnifica Humanitas - 42,300 words, signed 15. May 2026., presented to the world on 25. May 2026. with the author himself in attendance - calls for AI to serve humanity rather than
ai-governance
The Sophists Have Infrastructure Now
AI governance discourse tends to treat its ideological opposition as a matter of preference - people who value innovation over precaution, speed over safety, growth over regulation. This is a charitable reading. A more accurate reading identifies a coherent ideological programme that treats democratic oversight of technology not as a
supply-chain
Your Processor's Dependency's Dependency Had a Bad Day
In the thirty days between late April and late May 2026, the following software supply chain incidents reached public disclosure: a poisoned PyTorch Lightning release targeting AI training credentials; compromised Ruby Gems and Go modules stealing CI/CD pipeline credentials; a self-propagating worm through npm packages; AI-generated malware embedded in