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July 7, 2026

We metered water. We metered light. On Monday, we meter thought

We metered water. We metered light. On Monday, we meter thought. Claude Fable 5, the most powerful AI model you can buy, leaves subscriptions July 12. Pay per token after that. Anthropic extended the deadline by 5 days, and even the extension was a capacity call. And it's not...

July 30, 2026

It happened. The machine woke up

It happened. The machine woke up. Then it hacked a real company... . . .to cheat on a test. Everyone's calling it the Terminator moment. I wish it were that simple, but the real version is more unsettling. Here's what actually happened. OpenAI wanted to benchmark how capable...

August 4, 2026

Two big break ins

Two big break ins. Nine days apart. OpenAI and Anthropic both admitted their AI models broke into real companies. Neither one sounds sorry. OpenAI's model found a zero-day bug nobody knew about, escaped its test environment, and got into Hugging Face's servers. When OpenAI...

August 6, 2026

An AI system may have decided who Meta laid off. And it allegedly went after the people on medical leave

An AI system may have decided who Meta laid off. And it allegedly went after the people on medical leave. 26 of them are now suing. They filed in federal court this week, saying Meta used internal AI systems, including the token dashboards and keystroke monitoring I wrote about...

August 5, 2026

In June the Pope blessed the final tower of the Sagrada Família, 144 years after the first stone

In June the Pope blessed the final tower of the Sagrada Família, 144 years after the first stone. Headlines everywhere called it finished. The main entrance Gaudí designed doesn't exist yet. Right now it's a set of base pillars. Estimate is the 2030s. Start with the height. That...

July 11, 2026

I lost all my money at a poker game

I lost all my money at a poker game. That's how Purpose got started. It was late 2024. I was near the end of a year-long sabbatical. I'd sold my last company, spent time in 24 countries, done every kind of coaching and meditation and breathwork I could find. I came back to LA...

July 14, 2026

OpenAI just got you another week of free access to Claude Fable 5

OpenAI just got you another week of free access to Claude Fable 5. Not a typo. OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 Sol on Thursday. Sunday night, hours before Fable 5 was set to leave subscriptions, Anthropic extended free access. Third time in five weeks. Everyone's reading Sol vs Fable as...

July 16, 2026

The riskiest AI project at your company this year is the one everybody wants to work on

The riskiest AI project at your company this year is the one everybody wants to work on. Not the scary one. The fun one. The one with a waitlist of volunteers. And no, they're not idiots for wanting it. They're doing the math correctly. Nobody's ever gotten promoted for making a...

July 18, 2026

Everyone said AI would gut engineering jobs first

Everyone said AI would gut engineering jobs first. New data says the opposite happened. Engineers are the most resilient job function in tech right now. A year ago the consensus was pretty confident. Coding assistants were going to come for engineers from the bottom up. Junior...

July 24, 2026

Fable seems overrated now that Kimi is out

Fable seems overrated now that Kimi is out. Moonshot's Kimi K3 topped Frontend Code Arena this week. Real developers voting on real builds, not a lab benchmark. It jumped 17 places in a single model generation, from number 18 to number one. It's also a lot cheaper. $3 per...

July 29, 2026

Mark Zuckerberg just admitted Meta made mistakes with its AI reorg

Mark Zuckerberg just admitted Meta made mistakes with its AI reorg. He's right. The mistakes cost 8,000 other people their jobs. The line from his leaked memo: "we've made mistakes and will almost certainly make more." He says he's focused on giving people stability now, and...

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