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Monthly Archives: February 2026
AI #157: Burn the Boats
Events continue to be fast and furious. This was the first actually stressful week of the year. That was mostly due to issues around Anthropic and the Department of War. This is the big event the news is not picking … Continue reading
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Anthropic and the Department of War
The situation in AI in 2026 is crazy. The confrontation between Anthropic and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is a new level of crazy. It risks turning quite bad for all. There’s also nothing stopped it from turning out fine … Continue reading
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Citrini’s Scenario Is A Great But Deeply Flawed Thought Experiment
A viral essay from Citrini about how AI bullishness could be bearish was impactful enough for Bloomberg to give it partial responsibility for a decline in the stock market, and all the cool economics types are talking about it. So … Continue reading
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 Gives You Flexibility
Anthropic first gave us Claude Opus 4.6, then followed up with Claude Sonnet 4.6. For most purposes Sonnet 4.6 is not as capable as Opus 4.6, but it is not that far behind, it would have been fully frontier-level a … Continue reading
AI #156 Part 2: Errors in Rhetoric
Things that are being pushed into the future right now: Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini DeepThink V2. Claude Sonnet 4.6. Grok 4.20. Updates on Agentic Coding. Disagreement between Anthropic and the Department of War. We are officially a bit behind … Continue reading
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AI #156 Part 1: They Do Mean The Effect On Jobs
There was way too much going on this week to not split, so here we are. This first half contains all the usual first-half items, with a focus on projections of jobs and economic impacts and also timelines to the … Continue reading
Monthly Roundup #39: February 2026
There really is a lot going on these days. I held off posting this because I was trying to see if I could write a net helpful post about the current situation involving Anthropic and the Pentagon. Anthropic very much … Continue reading
On Dwarkesh Patel’s 2026 Podcast With Elon Musk and Other Recent Elon Musk Things
Some podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level. This was one of those. So here we go. As usual for podcast posts, the baseline bullet points describe key points made, and then … Continue reading
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On Dwarkesh Patel’s 2026 Podcast With Dario Amodei
Some podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level. This was very clearly one of those. So here we go. As usual for podcast posts, the baseline bullet points describe key points made, … Continue reading
ChatGPT-5.3-Codex Is Also Good At Coding
OpenAI is back with a new Codex model, released the same day as Claude Opus 4.6. The headline pitch is it combines the coding skills of GPT-5.2-Codex with the general knowledge and skills of other models, along with extra speed … Continue reading
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