The US Government Tried to Restrict an AI Model. Cybersecurity Veterans Are Pushing Back
A week later, 76 veterans from the cybersecurity industry published an open letter demanding the government reverse the order. The signatories read like a who’s who of internet defensive infrastructure: Alex Stamos, former head of security at…
Cloudflare Just Made AI Companies Choose: Pay Up or Get Blocked
OpenAI's Daybreak update brings GPT-5.5-Cyber, Codex Security automation, and Patch the Planet — the security tools that might actually matter for SOC teams.
Latitude Wants to Be Datadog for AI Agents — and It’s Open Source
If you’ve shipped an AI agent to production, you know the moment I’m talking about: it’s live, and you have no idea what it’s actually doing. Traditional monitoring was built for deterministic code. Logs, traces, metrics.…
Listen Labs Raised 69M Making AI Voice Data Collection Actually Ethical
Listen Labs raised 69 million dollars after a viral billboard hiring stunt that got their name in front of every tech journalist in the industry. But behind the stunt was a real company with a real differentiator: they’ve built an approach to AI…
OpenAI Is Quietly Building an Empire at Every Layer of the Stack
Three moves. No press conferences. No grand announcements. And yet, taken together, they paint a picture of a company that is systematically dismantling its own identity as a pure-play AI software company. In the past six months, OpenAI has hired a key…
What Anthropic’s Cowork Actually Tells Us About the AI Agent Race
There is a version of this story that is just a product review. Anthropic has released Cowork, a desktop agent that lives inside your files, works on tasks in the background without you having to hover over it, and notifies you when it needs input or…
Goose Is a Free AI Coding Agent — and It’s Worth a Look Before Paying
Goose is free. Claude Code is 200 dollars a month. That comparison is making the rounds in developer communities, and it is not wrong, but the phrase “does the same thing” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Goose is a real coding agent.…
Claude Opus 4.8: I Spent a Week With It So You Don’t Have To
Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 on May 28. I spent six days running it on a real Rust project. Here's what broke, what didn't, and the Qwen distillation question nobody's answering.
GPT-5.6 Is Here — Same Price as GPT-5.5, Twice the Brain
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is here — same price as GPT-5.5, smarter on coding and biology tasks, with a staged rollout due to cybersecurity concerns.
Microsoft’s New Coding AI Is Fast — But There’s a Catch
I demo’d a new AI coding tool at work last week. The dev team was impressed for about twenty minutes. Then we hit the wall. Microsoft dropped MAI-Code-1-Flash into GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise last week. General availability, wide…
Your AI Can Now Control Your Desktop. That’s Either Exciting or Terrifying.
I watched an AI use Chrome on a real computer last Tuesday. Open a tab, scroll, click the right button, and close it. Took about eight seconds. I don’t know why I found it unsettling — I’ve been using AI assistants for two years now — but…
The U.S. Government Is Now Deciding Who Gets to Use the Most Powerful AI
The U.S. government is now requiring approval before companies can give users access to the most powerful version of ChatGPT. This is a meaningful shift in how the government approaches frontier AI — and it’s worth understanding what’s…