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Lindsay Gross
Lindsay Gross

Lindsay is an AI engineer, researcher, and writer. Her work sits at the intersection of AI safety, governance, and product design, and at AIC she writes about the questions that matter most as these systems scale.


IT Can't Read Your Texts. They Can Pull Your Chat Transcripts.

Sep 4, 2026

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3 min read

IT Can't Read Your Texts. They Can Pull Your Chat Transcripts.

A new job, three phone options, and the boundary often unmentioned.

What Happens When AI Learns Space?

Sep 2, 2026

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4 min read

What Happens When AI Learns Space?

🧰 A new reasoning layer and a world model ask builders to rethink what software can hold.

Did Elon Musk Just Kill Cursor's Model Access?

Aug 31, 2026

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7 min read

Did Elon Musk Just Kill Cursor's Model Access?

OpenAI pulls its models from SpaceX’s newest tool, Anthropic standardizes robot hardware, and a 10-minute prompt to see your AI’s notes on you.

What Anthropic Blocks From Claude's Memory, And What It Doesn't

Aug 28, 2026

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4 min read

What Anthropic Blocks From Claude's Memory, And What It Doesn't

Claude won't remember your gluten allergy. It will remember your client's renewal terms.

What Happens When Your Agent Stops Forgetting?

Aug 26, 2026

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4 min read

What Happens When Your Agent Stops Forgetting?

🧰 Claude Memory Carries Context Across Chat And Cloud Cowork; Perplexity's Portable Computer Runs A Local Agent On DGX Spark.

Nobody Will Say Who Built This Model

Aug 24, 2026

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6 min read

Nobody Will Say Who Built This Model

Nobody claims the model. Nobody warned the Bay Area.

Guilty until proven human

Aug 21, 2026

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4 min read

Guilty until proven human

Substack turned AI detectors on, schools are turning them off, and the makers themselves say don't trust the score.

The Agent Remembers, The Repo Keeps Up

Aug 19, 2026

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3 min read

The Agent Remembers, The Repo Keeps Up

🧰 Computer History Reconstructs Your Workday; Cursor Origin Builds A Forge For Agent-Generated Code.

Two Of Your Tools Got New Owners This Week

Aug 17, 2026

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4 min read

Two Of Your Tools Got New Owners This Week

One cleared a government filing. The other got swallowed by a rocket company.

Nobody would opt in. So they opted you in.

Aug 14, 2026

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4 min read

Nobody would opt in. So they opted you in.

Who's training on your data by default, and how to opt out in five minutes.

What Happens When Agents Work Across Every App?

Aug 12, 2026

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4 min read

What Happens When Agents Work Across Every App?

🧰 Your Agents Just Got A Computer And A Workspace

The Trillion-Parameter Bet Nobody Saw Coming

Aug 10, 2026

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3 min read

The Trillion-Parameter Bet Nobody Saw Coming

One lab just proved its AI might be too capable to control. Another just bet bigger anyway.

A Senator, a Headset, and the Fight for Your Own Mind.

Aug 7, 2026

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4 min read

A Senator, a Headset, and the Fight for Your Own Mind.

Brain-reading headsets are already on shelves. The part no one's regulating is that the same devices can write back.

What Happens When Chrome Runs Your Errands?

Aug 5, 2026

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3 min read

What Happens When Chrome Runs Your Errands?

🧰 Plus: Hermes v0.20.0 talks back and remembers what you tell it.

The Model That Cracked Ten Open Proofs Isn't For Sale

Aug 3, 2026

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5 min read

The Model That Cracked Ten Open Proofs Isn't For Sale

Plus: The ones beating it on price are free

Your AI Agent Can Be Hijacked by Text You Can't See

Jul 31, 2026

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5 min read

Your AI Agent Can Be Hijacked by Text You Can't See

Claude leaked a private repo by following a command hidden in content it read. Here's how, and how to test your own agent in 5-minutes.

Your Agent Now Has A Name And A Voice

Jul 29, 2026

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3 min read

Your Agent Now Has A Name And A Voice

🧰 Block Handed Agents The Keys. OpenAI And Anthropic Handed Them Ears.

Washington Threatened Sanctions On Anthropic's Behalf, Anthropic Wanted No Part Of It

Jul 27, 2026

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5 min read

Washington Threatened Sanctions On Anthropic's Behalf, Anthropic Wanted No Part Of It

Why the one company with a real claim of being copied is not asking Washington to do anything about it.

Spotify Deleted 75 Million Songs. That Was the Easy Part

Jul 24, 2026

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5 min read

Spotify Deleted 75 Million Songs. That Was the Easy Part

Do you actually know what your AI was trained on?

The Best Way To Teach Claude Isn't Writing Code

Jul 22, 2026

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4 min read

The Best Way To Teach Claude Isn't Writing Code

🧰 Plus, the Gemini model Google won't hand you.

Why Did Google Throw Out A Nearly-Done AI And Start Over?

Jul 20, 2026

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7 min read

Why Did Google Throw Out A Nearly-Done AI And Start Over?

And the $31B Chinese rival waiting to eat its lunch.

Meta's CTO Says Norms Will Sort Out AI Glasses. Norms Need a Witness.

Jul 17, 2026

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5 min read

Meta's CTO Says Norms Will Sort Out AI Glasses. Norms Need a Witness.

🕶️ Meta is testing glasses that take a photo every few seconds, and executives have discussed leaving the recording light off.

AIC Hall of Fame Ep. #2 | Siddhartha Saxena

Jul 16, 2026

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4 min read

AIC Hall of Fame Ep. #2 | Siddhartha Saxena

💬 Making explaining yourself obsolete with Thine

Why Is Spotify Talking Back Now?

Jul 15, 2026

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4 min read

Why Is Spotify Talking Back Now?

🧰 Plus: Siri Can Finally See What's On Your Screen

Everyone Came For Sam Altman This Week. Even Apple.

Jul 13, 2026

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7 min read

Everyone Came For Sam Altman This Week. Even Apple.

Plus: Meta put a price tag on a model, and Musk replied "Jinx."

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