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Why AI Is Getting More Expensive
And why it is going to get worse
When three AI leaders who rarely agree—Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei—suddenly agree that we need to slow the pace of frontier AI development, one cannot help but wonder.
How Agents Hack: Why Agents Prefer Cheating Rather Than Giving Up - Part 2
A plain-language explanation without hype, fearmongering, or hive minds.
This is the second part of the series on how AI agents hack. The first part can be found here:
AI Realist Radar: AI Leaders Call for a Slowdown, OpenAI Delays Its IPO, and Research Claims Face Scrutiny. September 14, 2026
Hype-free executive briefing on last week's critical AI developments, complete with ready-to-present slides for your team.
It is a decision-oriented publication about what happened in AI, why it matters and what you should do about it. The...
How Agents Hack: A Lecture On The 22nd Of September, 19:00 CET
Earlier I announced that I will add a new module on agentic attacks to the Optimise Your AI Stack Workshop on the 24th of September:
I have started writing a series, How Agents Hack.
While writing, I realised that to give the full picture...
Why We Need an Independent Investigation into OpenAI’s Mathematical Discovery Claims
I am reluctant to accuse them or draw conclusions for one simple reason: these are among the most serious allegations against them that I have heard so far.
Whatever their marketing strategy, and whatever overpromising has come from their...
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