The AI Architect
Matija VidmarI read the AI papers, leaks and guidance so you don't have to. Twenty years an engineer: what actually changed, what it means at work, and the prompts I build from it.
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America Builds the Best AI. China Decided to Use It. Only One Wrote Down a Target
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China set a state target for AI adoption, 70% by 2027 and 90% by 2030: it measures how widely AI is used, not how smart the models are.
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A Morgan Stanley survey found 80% of Chinese respondents use AI weekly for personal purp...
Everyone Wants an AI Kill Switch. Nobody Can Tell You When to Press It
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On September 16, the US Senate blocked a bill that would have required an AI kill switch and left it in the hands of the same companies that own the models.
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In three recent cases, OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic did not ca...
AI Was Going to Cure Cancer. 63% of Americans Now Think It Will Kill Them Instead
Two polls, two days apart. One says most Americans fear extinction. The other says five concrete examples move trust fourteen points. Nobody is showing them the five examples
AI Architect Weekly — September 14-20, 2026
I Gave an AI Root Access to a Server Under Attack. Its Worst Mistakes Came From Rules I Never Gave It
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On a server under attack, some WordPress sites had been breached: fake admin accounts kept reappearing in the database, in one case about ninety seconds after being deleted.
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I gave Claude root access over SSH, not because I...
The AI Wrote the Proof in 88 Hours. 771 Mathematicians Won't Read It for Free
Ten thousand agents, 88 hours, 130 billion tokens, and a proof a machine can verify line by line. The part no machine does is deciding it is worth reading, and that part is still unpaid
AI Architect Weekly — September 7-13, 2026
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Engineer for twenty years, now AI consultant. On The AI Architect I read the papers, leaks and guidance behind the AI headlines, and work out what actually changes for people who use this stuff at work.
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