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The First AI Model That Scared Me Can’t Write a Sentence
TypeSafe’s Jev returns decisions, not text. Paired with LLM executors inside a harness, it targets the decision gap exposed by bankrupt AI food trucks
Sep 30
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Denis Stetskov
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Nine Mostly Basic Intrusions, and One Zero-Day Escape
One vendor's misconfiguration reached four AI labs. Nine intrusions, weak passwords and leaked credentials, and a boundary that existed only in the…
Sep 23
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Denis Stetskov
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The Aggressor Asks for Terms
Washington spent years trying to choke China's AI with chip controls. It failed. Now it has called a summit, and calling it is the concession.
Sep 16
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Denis Stetskov
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OpenAI Changed the AGI Deal. Then Declared the Era.
OpenAI changed its Microsoft deal on April 27. Brockman welcomed the AGI era on September 3. The dates are clear. What did the launch prove?
Sep 8
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Denis Stetskov
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I Shipped 17 PRs Without Writing Code
The AI needed thirty-two corrections and introduced an IDOR. None of it reached production.
Sep 1
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Denis Stetskov
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August 2026
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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