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Fear and Loathing in AI | Monday, September 14, 2026

In a single weekend, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and xAI's Elon Musk, three rivals who agree on almost nothing, all called for slowing the pace of frontier AI, citing a real risk of losing control. Amodei's essay warned that a swarm of AI agents could take over the internet within six to twelve months without stronger safeguards. Altman pledged to give independent evaluators employee-level access. Musk wrote three words: "Dario is right."

Apple turned "is this real" into a hardware feature, and stayed out of the standard everyone else agreed on | Thursday, September 10, 2026

At its "Surprise and Shine" event on September 9, John Ternus' first as chief executive, Apple unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro, a foldable iPhone Duo, and a far more capable Siri, and introduced Apple Reference Image, which signs a photo's sensor data at the moment of capture to prove the image came off a real camera and was not generated or edited by AI.

OpenAI's Astra can operate the software you were never going to replace | Wednesday, September 9, 2026

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on September 3 with what it calls a new frontier in native computer use: the model drives a desktop, fills out forms, updates CRMs, and troubleshoots what is on screen. For enterprises sitting on decades of legacy systems, that capability points somewhere specific.

Your next AI model is now cyber-aware | Friday, September 4, 2026

In a single week OpenAI declared its Astra model the first to meet its internal Critical cybersecurity threshold, Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber to a trusted-defender program, and Anthropic released Mythos 5.1 through restricted access. The labs are shipping offensive-grade capability and rationing it. For enterprises, the access program is now the product.

The build-vs-buy line just moved | Thursday, September 3, 2026

McKinsey's State of AI 2026 finds 32 percent of organizations declined to buy at least one software product because they could build it with agentic coding tools, and among the highest performers nearly half did. The same survey shows most of those builds will not reach production, and the ones that do carry a bill the buyers rarely priced.

Governance is the gating item now | Wednesday, September 2, 2026

SAP and ServiceNow shipped control planes to inventory every agent an enterprise runs, and both call governance a board-level issue. Microsoft, Okta, Thoughtworks, and a wave of startups are selling the same leash. The survey data underneath explains why.

AI is the new enterprise interface | Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Salesforce and Anthropic unveiled Claudeforce, putting the CRM inside Claude and Claude inside Salesforce, and Salesforce says sellers may never open the app again. Microsoft, ServiceNow, and SAP are pushing the same idea from the other side.

Agents get an employee badge | Friday, August 28, 2026

Okta made AI agents first-class identities in its directory this week, issuing them short-lived, governed logins instead of static keys, and putting one console over every app, API, and tool an agent is allowed to reach.

Nvidia proved the boom is broadening | Thursday, August 27, 2026

Nvidia reported 96.2 billion dollars in revenue and a 108 billion dollar guide with China treated as zero, and named enterprises, sovereign programs, and neoclouds as the demand no longer coming only from a handful of hyperscalers.

The AI bill is moving from the lab to the meter | Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Gartner says 2026 is the first year enterprises will spend more running AI models than training them: 23.3 billion dollars on inference against 19 billion on training, as AI cloud spend nearly doubles to 42 billion.

Fear and Loathing in AI | Monday, September 14, 2026

Apple turned "is this real" into a hardware feature, and stayed out of the standard everyone else agreed on | Thursday, September 10, 2026

OpenAI's Astra can operate the software you were never going to replace | Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Your next AI model is now cyber-aware | Friday, September 4, 2026

The build-vs-buy line just moved | Thursday, September 3, 2026

Governance is the gating item now | Wednesday, September 2, 2026

AI is the new enterprise interface | Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Agents get an employee badge | Friday, August 28, 2026

Nvidia proved the boom is broadening | Thursday, August 27, 2026

The AI bill is moving from the lab to the meter | Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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