August 25, 2026

The real danger isn’t that AI says nonsense

The least funny thing would be normalizing the idea that an opaque system can fail and that the only explanation is to click “regenerate.” AI doesn’t need to be perfect to be useful. But the companies offering it do need to be much clearer about when it stops being reliable. And perhaps that’s the real story: not that a machine has

August 24, 2026

AI No Longer Runs on the Chip: It's Inside It

Behind Chat Jimmy is HC1, a chip from startup Taalas designed to run Llama 3.1 with 8 billion parameters based on a radical idea: the model doesn't simply run on the hardware; an essential part of the model is integrated directly into the chip itself. Put less dramatically: they've traded flexibility for

August 24, 2026

If an AI can delete production, the failure isn't only its fault

An agent shouldn't be able to delete critical information simply because it misinterprets a situation. If it can, the problem isn't just that the model made a mistake; permissions, security barriers, backups, confirmations, and the environment's design also failed. In other wor

August 24, 2026

99.9% availability still allows for 43 minutes of downtime

Suppose an application promises to be available 99.9% of the time over the course of a month. That number seems extraordinarily high, but it leaves room for about 43 minutes of unavailability over thirty days. That margin is the error budget: the amount of failure the service can afford before violating