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This is a working paper, not a finished theory. I am trying to understand when a population of bounded agents begins to function as something more like an organization. The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident gave me a concrete case to study. I would welcome criticism of the argument, challenges to the terminology, contrary evidence, relevant research I have missed, better experimental designs, and examples that weaken or strengthen the thesis. Continue Reading →

Yesterday, OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, calling it “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model.” The rollout starts with a limited set of organizations and will expand over the coming days to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as the OpenAI API, Microsoft Azure, and AWS Bedrock. At a media briefing, OpenAI president Greg Brockman closed by saying, “Welcome to the AGI era.” Continue Reading →

Here are the facts: On September 2, 2026, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative artificial intelligence in the city’s public schools for the 2026-27 school year. The moratorium covers children from 2-K through eighth grade and applies to all software that uses student-facing generative AI. City Hall said the policy will affect nearly 600,000 students, which is about two-thirds of the public-school system’s enrollment. New York City operates the largest public-school system in the United States. Continue Reading →

OpenAI announced that healthcare organizations can now connect their Epic electronic health record (EHR) environments to ChatGPT for Healthcare. Clinicians can ask what changed since a patient's last visit, which lab results to review before an appointment, and whether there were medication changes or new specialist recommendations; ChatGPT then assembles the answer from the authorized patient record and points back to the supporting chart information. Continue Reading →

Yesterday, the European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, making it the first AI chatbot to enter the category. Continue Reading →

Cultural Debt is the sum of every unresolved habit, unexamined process, and unspoken assumption an organization carries forward. It is sustained by the inertia of the exceptionally powerful, "that's the way we do it." Add a dash of, "not invented here," then garnish with the growing fear of AI, and you've got a recipe for a huge leadership challenge. Continue Reading →

U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin ruled that the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal. The court found the government's actions violated the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act. Continue Reading →

Apple has set its next launch event for September 9 at 10 a.m. PDT at its Cupertino headquarters. The media invites carry the tagline "Surprise and shine" and a glowing Apple logo. Analysts expect new iPhones and Apple Watches, including Apple's first folding phone and (drumroll please) Siri AI: the LLM-based personal assistant Apple introduced at WWDC in June. Continue Reading →

Australia's record industry will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official charts starting next Monday. Under the Australian Recording Industry Association's new test, a track is eligible only if "humans wrote the song and performed the lead vocal and the primary instruments," among other requirements. AI-generated music is also ineligible for the ARIA Awards. Continue Reading →

Alibaba officially rolled out Wan3.0, its latest AI video generation model, which can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages. Alibaba says the public beta (live since August 6) has already been used in short drama and film production, advertising, tourism promotion, and music videos. Continue Reading →