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What If AI Builds the Robot Instead of Controlling It?
Last year I wrote about robotics moving from bespoke machines toward reusable foundation models, essentially an attempt to build a general-purpose robot brain. More recently, I argued that models are…
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Anthropic’s IPO: The Business Is Real. The Hard Part Comes Next
If you had asked me a year ago which frontier AI lab would go public first, I would have said OpenAI. Instead, Anthropic has filed for one of the most…
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China’s Export Strength Is Only Half the Story
Most media coverage of China focuses on its export and manufacturing prowess. Yet when I talk with visitors and friends just back from the country, what they most want to…
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The Model Factory Matters More Than the Model
A couple of months ago, I wrote about the growing post-training stack that lets teams turn general-purpose models into something better suited to their own work. I recently spoke with…
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Local AI Is a Routing Problem, Not a Privacy Feature
I’ve had a longstanding interest in local AI for a simple reason. I would rather not send proprietary code, unpublished plans, or knowledge about how a business operates to an…
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Eight Security Assumptions AI Agents Quietly Break
If you check Ethics.Dev regularly, you may have noticed how often AI agents and cybersecurity have been colliding lately. Some of the stories sound straight out of movies: agents escaping…
