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AI benchmark scores go up when you spend more. That changes what they measure.

25 May 2026

AI benchmark scores go up when you spend more. That changes what they measure.

When a vendor says their AI agent “scores 92% on GAIA,” what they have measured includes two things, not one. The first is how good the system is, and the second is how much money was spent running it…

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If You Use Gemini, Here Is What Changes After I/O 2026

23 May 2026

If You Use Gemini, Here Is What Changes After I/O 2026

Google held its annual I/O conference on May 19 and 20, with a long list of announcements covering models, agents, shopping, and hardware. If you already use Gemini, the practical question is what thi…

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The Psychology of AI Burnout: How Intermittent Reward Turns Work Into a Loop

19 May 2026

The Psychology of AI Burnout: How Intermittent Reward Turns Work Into a Loop

The other day I was finishing an n8n workflow for a client when I remembered an algorithm I need for a research paper. Eighteen months ago that would have been a two-month full-time project, and I wou…

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The AI Coding Repo That Went Viral Because It Adds Friction

16 May 2026

The AI Coding Repo That Went Viral Because It Adds Friction

The first time someone tries /grill-me, the agent does not start writing code. It starts asking questions.

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Princeton Just Ended 133 Years of Honor-Code Exams: How Universities Are Fighting AI Cheating

14 May 2026

Princeton Just Ended 133 Years of Honor-Code Exams: How Universities Are Fighting AI Cheating

On May 11, 2026, the faculty of Princeton University voted almost unanimously to put proctors in every exam room. Until that vote, professors had been forbidden from supervising exams since 1893. Stud…

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Cloudflare Just Fired 1,100 People in Its Best Quarter Ever

12 May 2026

Cloudflare Just Fired 1,100 People in Its Best Quarter Ever

Cloudflare did not fire 1,100 people because the business was collapsing. It fired them in the best quarter of its history.

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Anthropic just updated Managed Agents. Here is what that actually means for your business.

8 May 2026

Anthropic just updated Managed Agents. Here is what that actually means for your business.

Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents in April, and added four new features to it on May 6: dreaming, outcomes, multiagent orchestration, and webhooks. If those names mean nothing to you yet, that …

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The U.S. Government Tests Frontier AI models with the Safety Guards Turned Off

7 May 2026

The U.S. Government Tests Frontier AI models with the Safety Guards Turned Off

During one pre-release red-team session, David Relman sat in his home office testing a chatbot. An AI company had hired him to evaluate the model before public release, which is standard practice now:…

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Not All Firms Will Feel AI the Same Way

2 May 2026

Not All Firms Will Feel AI the Same Way

Most discussion of AI and work treats “the firm” as a single thing that AI either disrupts or doesn’t, on a timeline we then argue about. That picture flattens out a lot of what makes the question int…

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