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// 24 transmissions

A street at night seen at eye level: a crowd silhouetted against fires burning beyond the end of the road, machines standing among them, rendered as a corrupted broadcast.
  1. // 24Owning the machine againEvery agent you run on someone else's hardware is a decision you have delegated. Here is what changes when the machine is yours.1 min
  2. // 23The clock ran out in BrusselsOn 2 August the Commission stopped asking and started enforcing. The interesting part is not the fines — it is that a regulator can now demand access to a model.2 min
  3. // 22The machines took the majorityCloudflare's June figures put bots at 57.5% of HTML traffic. For the first time the web is majority machine, and most of those machines are reading, not indexing.2 min
  4. // 21Legibility is a featureAn agent that cannot show its work is not autonomous, it is unaccountable. The difference is entirely in the tooling around it.1 min
  5. // 20The loophole has an addressYou cannot ship the chip to Beijing. Nothing stops Beijing from renting time on the chip in Singapore. Washington has noticed, and the fix is harder than the ban.2 min
  6. // 19Nobody wants it next doorSeven in ten Americans oppose a data centre near them. The AI buildout has hit the one constraint capital cannot route around — the people who live where the land is cheap.2 min
  7. // 18The context you didn't chooseMost bad agent output is not a model failure. It is a context failure, and context is the one part of the stack you fully control.1 min
  8. // 17The exploit wrote itselfGoogle's threat intel group published the first credible account of an AI-developed zero-day used in a real attack. The capability was never the question — the cost was.2 min