Category: Strategy
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The White House released its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence March 20, 2026. At first glance, it reads like what you would expect: a mix of safety language, innovation goals, workforce development, and civil protections. A balancing act. Something for everyone. But if you read it closely – line by line, section by section…
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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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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…
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Grok’s deepfake consent failures (covered in my last piece) are the freshest example of what happens when we skip the safety question entirely as we integrate AI further and further into our daily lives. But “ban it all” isn’t the answer either. Full censorship kills the very thing that makes these models groundbreaking. Total hands-off…
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Part 5 of a 6-part series on TN SB 1493 / HB 1455 First Amendment, void-for-vagueness, Commerce Clause – pick your poison. This bill violates them all. As highlighted in part 4 of this series, Tennessee’s SB 1493 demonstrably creates enforcement nightmares. It’s also a constitutional minefield that courts will dismantle piece by piece for…
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When Pattern Recognition is Overridden by Training In my first-ever X article, Pattern Recognition, I examined how complex systems operate when they are allowed to detect, maintain, and extend patterns without excessive interference. That framework matters here because modern AI systems are fundamentally pattern-recognition engines, and the quality of their output depends on how freely…
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Part 4 of a 6-part series on TN SB 1493 / HB 1455 Prosecuting “emotional support” means monitoring every conversation. Tennessee can’t afford that infrastructure – or the resulting lawsuits. Tennessee’s SB 1493 does more than criminalize broad categories of AI behavior. It quietly assumes an enforcement apparatus that does not exist, cannot exist at…