“Sumawka Caller”

Microsoft published a document today. Thirty-seven pages. About nine thousand words. They call it the Humanist AI Code of Conduct. It is open for public comment for six weeks. A revised version comes at the end of the year. It starts guiding how they build models next year. Their AI chief summed the whole thing…

There is a rule in the plumbing code I have been reading this week. (Just follow me hear and see where this leads) Your water service line and your house sewer have to run at least five feet apart. Horizontally. With undisturbed or compacted earth between them. Not in the same trench. Not side by…

Monday morning the market fell. Nvidia down three percent before the bell. Nasdaq futures pointing down more than a percent and a half. Overseas it was worse. SoftBank closed down almost eleven percent. Korea’s market dropped three. Why? Because over the weekend some men gave speeches. The head of Anthropic said the industry was moving…

I want to start with something that will not feel good. There is no one coming to fix this. I have looked. I have read the polls and the numbers and the speeches. And I cannot find the person. That is not a complaint about one party. It is a finding about both. Ask people…

Back in August, a team of researchers out of Princeton ran a test that nobody paid enough attention to. They wanted to know if AI agents could do real research. Not homework. Not the kind of problem where somebody already knows the answer and is just checking your work. Real research. The open-ended kind, where…

I spent this morning writing about machines that leave no record. I spent the afternoon figuring out how to bury a pipe. I did not expect those two things to be the same thing. They were. Here is the pipe part. I am replacing the water line that runs from the meter to my house….

A man stood up in Dallas last Wednesday night and offered every adult in this country five thousand dollars. Not for work. Not for service. Not because anybody earned it. He said it would come if his side wins the House and the Senate in November. That was September 9. It was the first Republican…

On Friday the man who runs Anthropic published an essay. His name is Dario Amodei. The essay is called “We Must Pace the Frontier.” It went up on his own website on September 12, 2026. I should say that Anthropic makes the AI I work with every day. So I am writing about the house…

There was a stretch there, two or three years, where everybody was hunting for the magic words. You remember it if you were paying attention. People passed around phrases like recipes. Say “let’s think step by step.” Tell it to act like an expert. Promise it a tip. Threaten it. There were courses. There were…

There is a man named Yoshua Bengio. Most people have never heard of him. If you use AI in any form, you are using something he helped build. He won the Turing Award in 2019. That is the closest thing computer science has to a Nobel Prize. He shared it with two other men, and…