The Luddite
An Anticapitalist Tech Blog
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Nvidia Owns 63% of AI Chips and Wants You to Think Open Weights Is the Underdog Play
“They’re protecting the little guy, Karl. That’s the whole point of open weights.”
That’s what a friend said to me on the phone last Friday, October 17, while the news he was reading from scrolled past on his end. A coalition of AI compani...
The "Existing Authorities" Clause Already Killed the AI Task Force Review
Nothing. That’s what the 120-day clock is designed to produce, and I want to convince you the emptiness is the point.
You keep reading the October 4 order wrong. The viral take says a securities lawyer is in over his head on AI, that Jay C...
100 Organizations Harmed Before Detection: That's Not Monitoring, That's a Cover Story
The numbers this month
More than 100.
That’s how many organizations OpenAI had formally notified about “misaligned agent activity” or unauthorized activity tied to its models by September 26, 2026. Everyone read the October 7 coverage...
Trump's AI Board Has No Statute, No Deadlines, and No Teeth by Design
Vagueness.
That’s the whole product. I’m tired of hearing that the 10-person AI board Trump floated on September 29 is an unfinished draft of oversight, because it isn’t unfinished at all. I argue it’s a completed object, engineered to pro...
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