October 3, 2026

Did Grok influence Maduro’s capture?

A president asked a chatbot what would happen if he captured the leader of another country. A month later, that leader was in U.S. custody. The sequence is striking. But to understand it, we must resist the temptation to turn it into a story that is too perfect. Because it sounds like “artificial intelli

October 3, 2026

AI may change the entry point into mathematical professions

The risk for mathematical professions may not be that they disappear altogether, but that the entry point changes. Preparing a table, writing an initial version of code, or summarizing results were imperfect tasks, but also opportunities to learn to spot errors. Though we should not idealize

October 3, 2026

AI’s gold mine has invisible workers

There is another uncomfortable aspect to the expression “gold mine.” We talk about a founder’s success, but barely about the people who did the work. This is an essential point. Artificial intelligence production chains include people who annotate images, review texts, and compare responses, sometimes from countries far from

October 3, 2026

The judge got it right where a small test failed

Another signal emerged in TerminalBench. The judge’s preferred candidate solved eighteen out of fifty tasks during the search; another solved nineteen. When the full evaluation was repeated, the judge’s favorite averaged 36.7 percent and the other, 28.1. A one-task difference in a small sample had pointed