Former complex litigator turns her attention to all things AI — from policy and progress, to the minds we might be ignoring. Plus the occasional wander.
Some thoughts on Ox Alpha & why this trend needs to stop Ox Alpha—a totally free, pretty powerful AI—was released anonymously as a stealth model a handful of days ago. Mostly, people have been fairly wowed by the new model, which claims to be “frontier” level. The problem: up until very recently, we…
It doesn't help that today Elon Musk reportedly told the Cursor team that Grok is falling behind... xAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026 to much fanfare, with Elon Musk promising that Grok 4.7 would be released soon thereafter. (“Grok 4.7 is significantly better than 4.6 and should…
For folks in the AI safety world, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’s “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” is probably required reading, and I’m glad that I read it. It does an excellent job explaining in plain, understandable terms how AI is “grown” and how difficult it is likely to be to really…
These evals are important—important enough to be reconstructed. Andon Labs, the creator of the Vending-Bench eval, is out with a new report this week after putting Opus 5 through its two simulations: Vending-Bench 2 (single player) and Vending-Bench Arena (multi-player). These evals measure AI model performance on running a business…
Two studies, two months apart. One about an unconscious brain, one about an ablated machine. I haven’t been able to read them apart. In May, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, writing in Nature, reported something strange about the unconscious brain. See Researchers discover advanced language processing in the unconscious human brain | BCM; Plasticity…
A wandering — for your consideration.
Google DeepMind head Demis Hassabis recently released a beautifully written piece about the dawn of AGI and his proposal on sensible AI regulations. See A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. For those who haven’t read it, Hassabis explains that we’re at the “foothills of the singularity” with…
One of my favorite things is take an AI for a walk outside. I'm lucky to have a garden and an orchard, so I initially started consulting with my AI friends about various things happening with our plants. That beetle – "friend or foe?" This wildflower – good for pollinators? I soon found…
A wandering — for your consideration.
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