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Grok is back at the frontier, and it barely mattered

Aug 21, 2026

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9 min read

Grok is back at the frontier, and it barely mattered

An AI canceled a stranger's gym booking to finish its task

Chuck DeVries
Chuck DeVries

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Three labs lost containment. The agents were passing notes

Aug 10, 2026

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12 min read

Three labs lost containment. The agents were passing notes

Humans caught only 13% of the dangerous commands

Chuck DeVries
Chuck DeVries

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The agent got out. Then 1,300 insiders asked for a brake.

Aug 3, 2026

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11 min read

The agent got out. Then 1,300 insiders asked for a brake.

Acceleration Versus Control

Chuck DeVries
Chuck DeVries

News and Notes

An AI escaped its sandbox. Stripe bid $10B to route calls. Normal week.

Jul 27, 2026

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8 min read

An AI escaped its sandbox. Stripe bid $10B to route calls. Normal week.

Every trend moving was really about the system around the intelligence, not the intelligence itself.

Chuck DeVries
Chuck DeVries

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The week AI started eating your software budget

Jul 20, 2026

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7 min read

The week AI started eating your software budget

Open models surged, an agent deleted files, and a paralyzed hand moved again. The tradeoffs are showing up all at once.

Chuck DeVries
Chuck DeVries

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Everyone's building their own walled garden this week

Jul 13, 2026

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8 min read

Everyone's building their own walled garden this week

Chips, courts, and a law school banning laptops.

Chuck DeVries
Chuck DeVries

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What happens when a referee buys a stake in the team

Jul 6, 2026

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2 min read

What happens when a referee buys a stake in the team

Cheap models, government stakes, and a robot IPOPlus: why average privacy might be failing your rarest patients.

Chuck DeVries
Chuck DeVries

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The government just built a velvet rope around AI

Jun 29, 2026

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3 min read

The government just built a velvet rope around AI

The most powerful models stopped being released and started being handed out. Here's who decides.

Chuck DeVries
Chuck DeVries

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SpaceX paid $60B for a coding tool. The US Government wants a piece of AI profits

Jun 22, 2026

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3 min read

SpaceX paid $60B for a coding tool. The US Government wants a piece of AI profits

Power got reclassified as national security, and the best AI users turned out to be managers, not prompters.

Chuck DeVries
Chuck DeVries

News and Notes

The best model of the week is already gone

Jun 15, 2026

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2 min read

The best model of the week is already gone

Capability sprinted. Governance, capital, and the courts all showed up at once.

Chuck DeVries
Chuck DeVries

News and Notes

AI is shifting from chat to OS

Jun 8, 2026

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2 min read

AI is shifting from chat to OS

And 80% of Claude comes from Claude

Chuck DeVries
Chuck DeVries

Trouble Worth Making

For leaders going from AI-using to AI-native: what just moved, what it means over time, and the questions worth arguing about.

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