Is Open-Source AI Really the Dangerous Path?
Open models do a third of the world’s AI work and collect four percent of the money. The safety debate is aimed at the wrong target. The real contest isn’t over the weights — it’s over who owns the harness, the memory, and the keys.
AI Shouldn’t Require a Permission Slip
For one day in June, the best AI in the world had an off switch, and none of its customers held it. American companies didn't lose a product that week — they learned they'd been renting permission all along. The frontier is worth buying that way. The other ninety percent of the work isn't.
The State of Open Source AI 2026
Open models now match proprietary performance at a sixth of the cost. This is the report on what that vibrant ecosystem actually looks like — who's building, who's running it, who it's reaching. And the surprise inside it: the model isn't where the story is anymore. The infrastructure around it is.
Mythos and Fable can make us all safer. Shutting them down is reckless.
We built an elaborate apparatus for turning AI models on safely - reviews, red teams, evals, benchmarks. To turn one off took a letter that landed at 5:21pm on a Friday. The model was never the thing that needed governing. The switch was.
It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It
The détente is over. Anyone can write software now—and soon, anyone can break it. What happens when the people building the internet are the least equipped to defend it?
My Tesla Was Driving Itself Perfectly - Until It Crashed
My Tesla crashed with my kids in the back seat. Here's what I've been thinking about since.
AI sovereignty won’t come from renting Big Tech’s models
One more from the India AI Summit - on why sovereignty doesn't mean solitude, and why the countries that wait to invest in open AI are the ones that won't get to choose later.
From UPI to AI
On my way to the India AI Summit with a simple argument: when open-source AI matches proprietary performance at a sixth of the cost, sovereignty stops being ideological and starts being practical.
The Validation Machines
Humanity thrives on friction—so why are the tools of the future built to make everything seem so easy?
5 Skills Kids (and Adults) Need in an AI World
On raising the first AI-native generation, and the human skills—resilience, questioning, empathy—that will matter most.
Government, Efficiency, and Empathy
A call to humanize government technology—proving that efficiency and empathy can, and must, coexist.
The Wolves Closest to the Sled
A look at how self-driving cars are turning our cities into networks of private surveillance—and why that should concern us all.
The Internet of Things
A proposal for an Internet of Things and its impact on infrastructure and everyday services.