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Send us Fan Mail Anthropic, Google, Banks: The Agent Permission Problem Anthropic, Google, Banks: The Agent Permission Problem AI agents are acquiring access, memory, execution time, and the ability to keep working while people are offline. This episode examines the permission stack being built around them: shared capability standards, explicit identity, microVM isolation, security boundaries, approval gates, measurable rewards, enforceable policy, simpler memory, and ...

Send us Fan Mail OpenAI, NVIDIA, Claude and DeepSeek: AI Leaves the Model Box AI capability is escaping the model box and becoming an operational supply chain. This episode examines the seams that now determine whether capability becomes dependable infrastructure: disclosure, independent monitoring, cloud distribution, scientific validation, physical deployment, geopolitical access, commercial incentives, and durable execution. OpenAI’s AI-assisted discovery of critical PHP vulnerabilitie...

Send us Fan Mail eMudhra, DeepSeek, Mistral and ECHOTRIBBLE: Trust Under Load Trust is today’s hidden control plane. Compromised certificate keys, autonomous cyber agents, and sweeping AI-governance proposals all ask who can revoke authority when systems move faster than institutions. The episode also follows the operational economics of AI: DeepSeek opens its inference framework while US agencies ban its technology; companies examine the measurable return on AI tools; and TorchTPU lowers...

Send us Fan Mail A weary technical monologue about AI becoming entangled with documentation, programming labor, low-resource code, inference pricing, GPU infrastructure, neocloud finance, agent commerce, worker displacement, synthetic video, and agent evaluation. The through-line: capability is getting cheaper and more embedded, while governance, measurement, authorization, and accountability remain expensive. WhatsApp help pages hid instructions for AI systems Simon Willison: ...

Send us Fan Mail Anthropic, Google and Mistral Meet the Agent Consequences Anthropic, Google and Mistral Meet the Agent Consequences Agents are gaining action volume faster than judgment, law, labor pipelines, and institutions can absorb it. Today’s episode examines nine stories about that widening gap—and the infrastructure needed to narrow it. Original sources Anthropic cuts junior hiring as agent work hours surge Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft auto...