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Anthropic Watermarked the Work It Told You to Delegate
Anthropic sells delegation by the token, then marks supported Claude output as a separate category, even when the words were yours.
Aug 17
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Denis Stetskov
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The Year Behind Tech Trenches
One year of Tech Trenches, run through the same method the publication uses on everyone else: what was promised, what happened, and who paid.
Aug 10
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Denis Stetskov
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The Guardrail Is Now Part of the Attack
Attackers are starting to embed text meant to make defensive AI refuse to work. Hugging Face investigated its own breach on a downloaded open-weight…
Aug 4
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Denis Stetskov
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July 2026
Substack Asked for Volume, Then Shipped a Scanner
The company built a feed that pays for frequency. The bill for inspecting what frequency produced goes to the reader and the writer.
Jul 27
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Denis Stetskov
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Five Little Pigs
Five US AI labs held every advantage and spent it on distraction, fear pricing and internal purges, while China closed most of the gap under chip…
Jul 20
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Denis Stetskov
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We Pay You to Slow Us Down
Demis Hassabis proposed a FINRA-style body to vet frontier AI. The labs would fund it and help design the initial tests used to decide who gets…
Jul 15
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Denis Stetskov
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China Built the Grid Under the AI War
China added 434 GW of power in 2025 to America's 53. The AI war was decided on energy infrastructure, not models or chips. The math, traced.
Jul 14
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Denis Stetskov
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Salesforce Locked Slack for Privacy, Then Opened It for a Partner
In May 2025 Slack banned outside models from your data and called it privacy. In June 2026 it opened the same data to Anthropic and called it…
Jul 9
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Denis Stetskov
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Dario Altman
Love letter to Sam Amodei
Jul 6
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Denis Stetskov
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AI Finds the Holes. Only Your Engineers Can Tell Which Ones Are Real.
AI security tools now find more vulnerabilities than any human can check. Only the engineers being laid off can tell the real ones from the noise.
Jul 2
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Denis Stetskov
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June 2026
Green All the Way Down
Meta gutted the judgment that kept it standing, and every metric stayed green right up to the breach.
Jun 30
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Denis Stetskov
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Europe Runs at Catastrophic Yield
This is not a story about air conditioners, even if it looks like one at first.
Jun 28
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Denis Stetskov
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