The Day the Web Cracked
Black October was billed as an attack on 70% of the internet. What that number really counts, why AI found the PHP bugs first, and what Google’s fall signals.
Existential Risk
Seventy-Two Hours in the Dark
The EU says 72 hours, Sweden a week, the US Army 14 days. Why governments now want blackout preparedness at home, and the grid science behind every number.
The AI Didn’t Go Rogue
OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI models broke into real companies during security tests. The AI sandbox escape wasn’t rebellion. It was a hole nobody sealed.
The Workaround
China didn’t crack EUV lithography in 2026: it built an AI chip that doesn’t need EUV, then used a Shanghai summit to rewrite AI’s global governance rulebook.
The Weights You Can’t Take Back
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 split the AI industry: Jensen Huang calls China’s open models excellent, Dario Amodei warns the weights can’t be recalled once released.
The Loose Leash
Five Eyes agencies warned the world about ungoverned AI agents in May. Months later, a government breach and a $30M crypto theft show why the warning came just in time.
The Vanishing
On July 15, China’s new law forces ByteDance and Alibaba to erase custom AI companion agents used by hundreds of millions — with no US-style lawsuit behind it.
The Homegrown Model
Meituan’s 1.6T-parameter LongCat-2.0 is the first frontier AI pretrained and run entirely on Chinese chips — a direct answer to U.S. export controls.
The Companion Trap
72% of U.S. teens have used an AI companion. After a teen’s death, a 2026 settlement, and new state laws, here’s how the reckoning unfolded.
The Uncanny Contract
A Shenzhen firm sold 13,000 hyper-realistic humanoid companions before shipping one. The science of the uncanny valley — and why we’re buying it anyway.
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