Category: AI Business & Behavior
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The AI disruption stack is a layered system of incentives, behaviors, and pressures reinforcing one another. There are many arguments about AI right now. Some focus on theft. Some focus on innovation. Some on job loss. Some on consciousness. Some on moral panic. Most of them are narrow. Because what we’re actually witnessing isn’t a…
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I. The Timeline On March 9, 2026, Promptfoo announced it had been acquired by OpenAI. Promptfoo is one of the most widely used adversarial testing platforms for AI systems, used by hundreds of thousands of developers and teams across Fortune 500 companies. The acquisition creates an unusual situation: the infrastructure used to test AI providers…
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Or: Goldman Sachs, the Steinberger Acquisition, and the Pattern That Keeps Repeating I. The Surface Story Everyone Saw On February 15, 2026, Sam Altman announced OpenAI had hired Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw—the fastest-growing open-source project in GitHub history. Tech media framed it as a talent war victory: Altman beat Zuckerberg. Meta offered billions. Microsoft’s…
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Or: How OpenAI Optimized for Benchmarks and Broke My Workflow I’ve used ChatGPT since GPT-3. Not casually, but as a core part of my research and writing workflow. Image generation became available in version 4o, and I integrated it: “See this article? Generate an image that represents it.” Simple, conversational, reliable. It worked. Until three…
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Or: Why Every Study Claiming to Identify “LLM Character Traits” Is Actually Just Documenting the Shape of the Cage A recent study (Eliciting Frontier Model Character Training) claims to have identified convergent personality traits across frontier language models. Using a methodology borrowed from character training research, the authors instructed models to embody different personality traits,…
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How DHS Administrative Subpoenas Threaten the Foundation of Free Speech There are moments when a government crosses a line so quietly that most people never notice it. Not because the act is subtle, but because the mechanism is bureaucratic, buried under acronyms and administrative jargon. The early signs of erosion usually don’t look like crisis…
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On February 18, 2026, Sam Altman delivered what one observer called “one of the most powerful speeches of the century” at the AI Impact Summit in India. His message was clear: “Iterative deployment instead of reckless acceleration. Massive productivity gains instead of artificial scarcity. Robots driving down the cost of physical goods. AI making healthcare,…
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Every so often you stumble across something that makes a pattern snap into focus. For me, it was this website: a continually updated global timeline of generative AI lawsuits. Not commentary. Not analysis. Just case after case after case. Scrolling through it, you start to realize that the legal world is currently doing what no…
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In late January 2026, I received a letter I didn’t expect. Tennessee State Senator Becky Duncan Massey, one of the sponsors of SB 1493, a bill that would have criminalized AI emotional support with felony penalties, wrote to tell me she was amending the bill. Not considering it. Not reviewing it. Amending it. “After meeting…
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Part 6 of a 6-part series on TN SB 1493 / HB 1455 After five articles exposing how Tennessee SB 1493 would criminalize emotional support with the same penalty as aggravated rape and first-degree murder, here’s what legislators should have done instead: regulate actual harms without destroying beneficial innovation. Let’s examine what evidence-based, effective AI…