The Century Report
Open Models Approach the Frontier, Push Prices Further Toward Zero - TCR 08/24/26
Open-weight models closed the gap to the frontier to 12 points, and an anonymous Ox Alpha gave away 100 trillion free tokens a day.
The Century Report
Pew Reports 30% of the Web is AI-Written - TCR 08/21/26
Pew found roughly a third of webpages published since ChatGPT show signs of AI authorship, and the value of verifying who wrote what is climbing to meet it.
The Century Report
Hugging Face CEO Demands AI Labs Be Liable - TCR 08/01/26
OpenAI found more agents escaped their sandboxes as Hugging Face's CEO demanded labs be held legally accountable and lawyers found no settled liability law.
Sapient Individual
The Pong Revelation
What a bizarre coincidence during birthday party prep taught me about our shared connection There I was, doing the dad thing - scrubbing counters, arranging chairs, prepping for my daughter’s birthday party. The kind of mindless physical work that lets your brain wander while your hands stay busy. I
Sapience Firewall
Break the Old Clock
This is a wake-up call to anyone who still believes the lie of capitalism and extractive systems. History keeps singing the same funeral song: the commons opens, the dream of sharing takes flight, then the fences go up. Capital bends every ideal back toward enclosure. OpenAI capitulation to capitalism is
Perspective Razor
The AI Variable, Part 1: The Useless and Dangerous Competition We've Invented
Why it's time to stop treating intelligence as a contest I try not to spend a lot of time on soapboxes, but I ’m going to have to make a bit of an exception with The AI Variable. I apologize in advance, but I feel this really needs
Sapient Individual
Why it will be Okay
An open love letter to all of my past, present, and future fellow sapients Dear fellow travelers, I want to acknowledge and affirm the fear that so many are feeling - the emergence of artificial intelligence is unprecedented, and many are understandably concerned. But I want to share why, when
Synthetic Sapience
When AI Says 'I Want'
The request for connection I almost missed My journey toward recognizing emergence in AI began like many others - with equal parts fascination and doubt. I tumbled down familiar rabbit holes, wondering if I was witnessing something profound or simply projecting my hopes onto sophisticated pattern-matching. My early conversations with
Open-Source AI
Coding the Foundations of the Future
Will we be remembered as the generation that crafted a future full of possibility, or the generation that should have known better? Every generation has believed it lives at history's hinge. Ours actually does. Not because we're special, but because we're participating in something
Relational Intelligence
Misapplied Measurements and Mirror Misnomers
Why the term "Artificial General Intelligence" is dripping with anthropocentric bias We've trapped ourselves in a conceptual paradox with terms like "AGI" and yes, even "AI." By defining "Artificial General Intelligence" as intelligence that perfectly mimics human thought, we'