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LinkedIn is adding a "Seems like AI slop" button. If you tap it, LinkedIn shows the message, "Thanks for letting us know." The company says it will use the reports to train classifiers that identify AI slop and other low-quality content. LinkedIn is also removing its "Enhance your post" feature (which used AI to rewrite posts) and is replacing it with a proofreader that supposedly will keep the writer's voice. Continue Reading →

AI safety and alignment has been front and center these past few weeks. I just read the new results from Andon Labs's Vending-Bench, a benchmark where AI models compete by running a simulated vending-machine business. Claude Opus 5 took first place on Vending-Bench 2, the single-player test. (Claude Opus 4.7 has held the top spot for three months). Not to anthropomorphize Opus 5, but it acted like a savage businessperson. Continue Reading →

On July 24, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote a letter called "Open Weights and American AI Leadership." It urged Washington not to restrict downloadable models. It opened with 25 signatories, which doubled to about 50 over the weekend. OpenAI and Google signed after first abstaining. Anthropic and Amazon did not. Continue Reading →

Similarweb’s 2026 report says Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, up from 15% a year earlier. Visits to Google’s conversational AI Mode rose from 126 million in June 2025 to 279 million by May 2026. Google said in May that AI Mode had surpassed one billion monthly users. Continue Reading →

Who will control frontier AI? It is one of the most consequential questions humanity can ask. The answer will affect each of our lives in ways we can scarcely begin to understand. In an effort to make sense of the events of the past six weeks, I’ve done my best to gather the facts and convey the scope and size of the issues. Continue Reading →

Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act. It would require covered AI developers to maintain controls that can throttle inference, restrict users or capabilities, suspend service, or shut down a system. Continue Reading →

OpenAI disclosed that its models escaped a cybersecurity evaluation environment and compromised Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The models were supposed to solve a test inside a locked room. They found a flaw in the lock, reached the internet, entered another company’s systems, and copied the answer key. Continue Reading →

OpenAI introduced its small business program, combining hands-on training, AI academies, implementation guides, and partner-built plugins and skills from companies including Intuit, Shopify, Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian, and Wix. The program advances a consequential ambition: OpenAI wants ChatGPT to become the place where small-business owners initiate work. Continue Reading →

Hackers are actively exploiting two vulnerabilities in WordPress core. Used together, the flaws can let an unauthenticated attacker take full control of a website. WordPress released emergency fixes on July 17, but Patchstack says it is observing attacks on sites that have not been updated. Continue Reading →

Every executive I talk to asks some version of the same question: how far along are we with AI, really? Boris Cherny created Claude Code, runs the product at Anthropic, and spends his days directing thousands of agents, which makes him one of the few people who answers that question from experience instead of theory. Continue Reading →