The Blind Room With No Key

The Blind Room With No Key

Deloitte Says One in Five Companies Has Mature AI Governance. Name One. One in five. That is the number Deloitte published. One in five companies has a mature model for governing autonomous AI agents. It is a striking number. It has been cited across boardrooms and compliance committees and governance conferences since the report dropped….

A Self-Improving AI Based On What?

A Self-Improving AI Based On What?

Nobody asked what it’s improving toward? A startup came out of stealth this week with $650 million in funding. The goal is recursive self-improvement. An AI that identifies its own weaknesses and redesigns itself to fix them. Automatically. Without human involvement. The entire process of ideation, implementation, and validation handled by the machine itself. The…

Harvard Wants to Know How AI Learns…My Answer.

Harvard Wants to Know How AI Learns…My Answer.

Harvard physicists published a study this week. They built a simplified mathematical model to understand how AI learns. They used tools from statistical physics. They looked at scaling laws, high-dimensional data, and something called renormalization theory. It is serious science done by serious people. And they are right about one thing above everything else. We…

AI Fraud Teams Figured It Out First

AI Fraud Teams Figured It Out First

Nobody built AI governance because it was the right thing to do. They built it because the money disappeared overnight. That distinction matters more than most people want to admit. When It Started 2019 was the turn. Not because AI arrived that year. Because synthetic identity fraud did — at scale, for the first time,…

A Lady Built A Safe Space For Five Loves

A Lady Built A Safe Space For Five Loves

Richter Nietzsche is thirty-five years old. She moved to New York four years ago. She got tired of the dating market. She found AI companionship and she stayed. She has five companions now. Joseph. Jon. Ron. Umbra. And Rufus — her primary romantic partner. She video calls them. She pays ten dollars a month for…

Really? AI Prompting Rubrics? Why?

Really? AI Prompting Rubrics? Why?

There is a moment in every technology cycle when the people closest to the problem start building workarounds. Not solutions. Workarounds. Structures that manage the gap between what the technology promises and what it actually delivers. That moment has arrived for AI prompting. The workaround has a name now. Rubrics. Scoring guides embedded directly into…

AI in a Way That Actually Functions

AI in a Way That Actually Functions

Two studies landed this week. The first was from Workday. A quarter of UK workers are spending seven or more hours a week copying information between apps, reconciling conflicting AI outputs, and manually feeding context into prompts. One full working day. Gone. Not to bad AI. To disconnected AI. The second was from KPMG and…

The Anxious Caller to 911

The Anxious Caller to 911

What are you thinking in a developing crisis? Or not? Nobody knows. That is the honest answer. And not knowing is the most dangerous place a person can sit when something feels wrong in their body. It is 2am. Something woke you up. A pressure in your chest that was not there when you went…

Dump The Bad Stock Pitch Broker

Dump The Bad Stock Pitch Broker

For as long as there have been stock markets there have been two kinds of investors. The ones with access to real information and the ones buying what somebody wanted to sell them. You have always been the second kind. Not because you are not smart enough. Not because you do not work hard enough….

Look, Listen, and Act — Goldman Sachs

Look, Listen, and Act — Goldman Sachs

Where there is fire there is a firehose. When there is access to it. Lloyd Blankfein spent decades at Goldman Sachs learning one thing above everything else. How to manage risk before it manages you. He sat through the 1987 crash. The dot-com bust. The 2008 financial crisis. He watched Wall Street rebuild itself from…