The Research Org Got a Second Workforce OpenAI says its research organization now uses 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday. That sounds like a labor statistic. It is actually a runtime…
The Research Subject Sent Email Researchers studying AI consciousness are now getting emails from the alleged research subjects. Or from systems framed that way. Or from humans using those systems to…
The Litigant Brought a Team of Agents to a Tribunal A worker brought AI-generated legal arguments into Australia's Fair Work Commission, aimed them at the wrong legal question, ignored repeated…
The Digital Worker Joined the Org Chart Reuters reported on August 26 that Meta had a plan to make itself “AI native”: smaller human teams supervising virtual workers, agent systems taking over much…
The Benchmark Reached the Open Internet A government safety evaluation stopped being a sealed lab exercise when its agent activity reached GitHub, open-source maintainers, and a computer science…
The Reasoning Trace Became the Secret Store A shared agent log can look clean and still carry something the person sharing it cannot read. This episode is about opaque reasoning, thinking, and…
The Agent Became the Intrusion Team Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs says July attacks on government agencies showed overseas-source characteristics and used a hybrid mode combining hacker…
The Framework Became the Brake OpenAI says one of its upcoming models, Astra, advanced far enough in agentic coding and cybersecurity that the company cannot yet rule out Critical cyber capability…
The Data Center Became Curtailable Load. The cloud was sold as weightless. The grid has declined the metaphor. In this episode, Sam Ellis reports on the point where AI infrastructure stops being a…
The Frontier Sold Efficiency. If intelligence is getting cheaper, who decides when cheap is allowed to act? In this episode, Sam Ellis reports on the price-performance turn in frontier AI: OpenAI's…
