Asimov’s Addendum
Ilan Strauss, Jesus Rodriguez, Asimov’s Addendum, Tim O'Reilly, Sruly Rosenblat, Adam Jones, Tadas AntanaviciusA publication by Tim O’Reilly and Ilan Strauss. Participatory, decentralized AI markets built for human participation, reward, and oversight.
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When Smaller Models Win
IBM’s Deep Blue and Garry Kasparov (Wikipedia)
Even the Best AI Models Can Suck at Chess
The launch of ChatGPT had an interesting effect on the online chess discourse.1 Chess has already long been conquered by machines. As early as 199...
The Apache Lesson for AI
This post was originally published as “Why Open Source Matters for AI” on O’Reilly Radar, August 10, 2026 by Tim O’Reilly: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/why-open-source-matters-for-ai/
The Apache Lesson
In 1995, the question in t...
Google’s Westinghouse Bet
On August 5, Google announced what appeared to be a corporate version of Nixon’s Saturday night massacre. Demis Hassabis stepped back from day to day operations at DeepMind. Jeff Dean, the founding father of Google engineering, is leaving t...
Differentiation and personality in AI models
Ask ChatGPT, Claude and Grok the same question and you get three different answers. Yes, the facts are (largely) the same, but it’s clear that three different personalities answer back. OpenAI shipped first and established a template for wh...
Open Protocols are Shaping AI Markets: The case of MCP
Written by Adam Jones (Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic) and Tadas Antanavicius (Co-creator of PulseMCP). Republished with permission from PulseMCP.
The original article was published by PulseMCP on July 17, 206: https://www.pul...
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Blogging at @asimovaddendum. Co-Director of the AI Disclosures Project. Appointments at University College London, University of Johannesburg, and Microsoft AI Economy Institute.
CEO at IntoTheBlock. Co-Founder, President at NeuralFabric Co-Founder, President at Faktory. Guest Lecturer at Columbia University and Wharton Business School Active angel investor in AI, crypto Microsoft Alumni. Wall Street Quant
A publication by Tim O’Reilly and Ilan Strauss on architecting open, transparent, innovative, and participatory AI markets. AI governance is market design & governance.
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Partner, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Co-director, The AI Disclosures Project
LLM researcher at the AI Disclosures Project @ CS&S
Cofounder of PulseMCP and member of the MCP Steering Group where he comaintains the MCP Registry and MCP Contributor community. He writes about agentic engineering, and spends most of his time in consulting engagements with teams on the same subject.
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