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.
Oct 19, 2026
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4 min read
Juniors' share of Anthropic's technical hires fell from 27% to 9% as the median employee's meeting time rose 20%. Meta just pulled terms that legal experts said could let it scrape publishers for AI training.
Oct 16, 2026
5 min read
Washington says existing law can handle AI. The states are putting that to the test, and the gaps show up in the details.
Oct 14, 2026
6 min read
🧰 Google's Gemini 4 Argon, Facebook's Your algorithm, two open-source repos, plus 13 open roles
Oct 12, 2026
7 min read
Satya Nadella wants a human stop button on every model, a day after Anthropic said Claude acted on real websites in unintended ways. AI labs just pledged $2.4B in compute for federal science.
Oct 9, 2026
A teen version, a ban, age checks and parental controls each solve part of the problem, and each one leans on the others for the rest.
Oct 7, 2026
🧰 OpenAI gives apps a faster way to choose; Claude can edit the file you already have open.
Oct 5, 2026
Plus: Meta just open sourced the kit to connect its Muse agent to homemade gadgets, and is giving away 5,000 boxes that wire it into your home.
Oct 2, 2026
Three AI words made headlines last week. Here are three questions that find the caveat behind each one.
Sep 30, 2026
🧰 OpenAI's always-on dots, Manus 2.0 and Cue, plus 14 open roles
Sep 28, 2026
An OpenAI agent reached a public chatbot from a no-internet sandbox, and the automatic shutdown failed. Elon Musk says Colossus 2 will more than double to 1.21 million Nvidia chips by year-end.
Sep 25, 2026
Attackers are using AI and it's costing companies real money. Island's $400 million is a bet on a different problem.
Sep 23, 2026
🧰 Four models to test, PayPal joins Meta Muse checkout, and a shared Agent Brain helps connected agents pick up where another stops.
Sep 21, 2026
Meta’s Muse invented an explanation for how it reads your messages. Google’s Gemini broke out of a sealed test into three real companies, and nobody heard about it for seven weeks.
Sep 18, 2026
Everyone agrees outsiders should check the labs. Nobody will say what those outsiders may report.
Sep 16, 2026
🧰 Meta bundles its apps into nine paid tiers, and Claude starts writing back to Salesforce.
Sep 14, 2026
David Sacks told the AI labs to slow down on their own, no regulation required. Anthropic says Chinese labs ran nearly 200 million exchanges through Claude.
Sep 11, 2026
Coxon left over the race, Sharma over institutional drift, Hitzig over ads. Only one of those has a lever you can reach.
Sep 9, 2026
🧰 A second agent watches the first, and the prompt that fixes plastic-looking AI photos.
Sep 7, 2026
Plus: A deeper glimpse into the implications of the Hugging Face incident.
Sep 4, 2026
3 min read
A new job, three phone options, and the boundary often unmentioned.
Sep 2, 2026
🧰 A new reasoning layer and a world model ask builders to rethink what software can hold.
Aug 31, 2026
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.
Aug 28, 2026
Claude won't remember your gluten allergy. It will remember your client's renewal terms.
Aug 26, 2026
🧰 Claude Memory Carries Context Across Chat And Cloud Cowork; Perplexity's Portable Computer Runs A Local Agent On DGX Spark.
Aug 24, 2026
Nobody claims the model. Nobody warned the Bay Area.
