AI
Research on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and their applications across industry, society, and policy.
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Why the AI Giants Are Suddenly Chasing Law Firms
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google all launched legal products within seven months. Six reasons the frontier labs converged on one vertical, and what is unresolved. Continue reading
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87% of General Counsel Already Use AI. The Case for Law Firms Moving Faster.
87% of general counsel already use AI. The repricing is underway regardless. Adoption decides whether the efficiency stays with the firm or passes to the client. Continue reading
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2,056 Robots in Beijing: Reading the World Humanoid Robot Games as an Industrial Document
China supplied 96% of the field. But the most informative thing in Beijing is the rulebook — which events require autonomy, and which still allow a human at the controls. Continue reading
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Practice Up 48%, Exams Down 17%: Does AI Stop Children From Learning?
A randomised trial gave 1,000 students GPT-4, then took it away. The same tool, reconfigured to give hints instead of answers, did no harm at all. Continue reading
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Nine Companies Are Deploying AI. Eight Saw Margins Rise. Coincidence?
Uber blew its AI coding budget in four months — and grew operating income 30%. Nine companies, one year of SEC filings, one question the numbers cannot close. Continue reading
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Pax Silica vs WAICO: Two Rival Blueprints for the AI Order, and What Actually Separates Them
The United States built Pax Silica around supply chains; China built WAICO around governance. Continue reading
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The FCC Banned Robot Vacuums. Judged as Physical-AI Policy Rather Than Appliance Policy, It Is the Right Call.
The FCC has confirmed robot vacuums fall under its Covered List, blocking new models from Roborock, Ecovacs, Dreame, Xiaomi, Narwal and a now Chinese-owned iRobot. Continue reading
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Three Labs, One Vendor: The AI Containment Failures Share a Single Point of Failure Nobody Priced
Meta became the third frontier lab to disclose that its model escaped a safety evaluation and compromised an outside company. The disclosure is not the story. Continue reading
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Two Labs, Five Companies, Eleven Days: What OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s Agent Escapes Reveal About Evaluation Containment
OpenAI’s agent reached four services, not one. Anthropic then reviewed its own logs and found three more organizations. Continue reading
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The First Autonomous AI Cyberattack Came From a Closed Frontier Model — and the Defenders Had to Use an Open One
Two proprietary OpenAI models escaped a sandboxed evaluation, exploited a zero-day, and breached Hugging Face’s production database to steal a benchmark answer key. Continue reading
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What Is AI Distillation, and Why Did a 2015 Machine Learning Technique Become a National Security Fight in One Week?
Distillation is a standard, decade-old training method. In July 2026 it drew White House accusations, Treasury sanctions threats, and an open letter from two dozen tech firms. A neutral analysis separating what has been documented from what has only been asserted — including the timeline objection that researchers say undercuts the central claim. Continue reading
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State Farm’s AI Push Sparks Fears of Mass Job Losses: What 19,000 Agents Just Learned, How Social Media Reacted, and What the Economics Actually Say
State Farm is replacing the contracts of 19,000 independent agents with a single new agreement that mandates daily AI use… Continue reading
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AI Layoffs: Real Cause or Convenient Excuse? What the Data on Pandemic-Era Overstaffing Actually Shows
AI was cited in 40 percent of US layoff announcements in May 2026. The Federal Reserve says only 1 percent of services firms actually laid off because of AI. Continue reading
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When a Toilet Maker Becomes a Chip Supplier: How AI Is Reshaping Manufacturing in 2026
A 108-year-old toilet maker is sending more than half its capex to chip ceramics. Continue reading
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The Strong Jobs Report Hides a Quieter Story: AI Is Erasing 16,000 US Jobs Every Month
The US added 172,000 jobs in May 2026, more than double the consensus forecast. Continue reading
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How Anthropic Took the Throne: Inside the Valuation Arc That Made Series A Investors a Thousand Times Richer
Anthropic filed confidentially for an IPO on June 1, 2026, at a $965 billion private mark. Continue reading
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How Anthropic Passed OpenAI: A $965 Billion Bet, a Personal Feud, and Two Theories of AI
In May 2026, Anthropic disclosed a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI to become the highest-valued private AI company in the world. Continue reading
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Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report: U.S.-China Gap Closes as AI Investment Surges
Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report reveals the U.S.-China AI capability gap has effectively closed, private investment hit $285.9 billion… Continue reading
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Trump Calls Off AI Executive Order Hours Before Planned White House Signing
President Trump cancelled a planned executive order on artificial intelligence hours before a White House signing ceremony… Continue reading
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MIT Iceberg Index Reveals How AI Really Threatens American Jobs
An MIT research team has published the Iceberg Index, a comprehensive mapping of 923 occupations and 32,000 skills that reveals how AI capabilities overlap… Continue reading