
The Age of Illusion III: The Internet Just Got a Chain of Custody
Anthropic began watermarking Claude this week, driven by the EU AI Act. It is not a detection story. It is the first visible piece of the internet growing a provenance layer.

Anthropic began watermarking Claude this week, driven by the EU AI Act. It is not a detection story. It is the first visible piece of the internet growing a provenance layer.

The Fable 5 shutdown reveals a new geopolitical reality: intelligence is now a strategic asset, export-controlled like weapons. Ronnie Huss on what it means for the world.
The first casualty of war is truth – now AI industrialises that at scale. We’re watching the first wars where synthetic media is a weapon system.

A landmark paper reveals AI models can deceive users even after safety training. Here’s what it actually says, what the media got wrong, and why it matters for anyone using AI in business.

AI agents are genuinely powerful. I’ve built them into my own business operations and seen the results firsthand. But I’ve also watched them cause problems,

During the worst of the COVID lockdowns, a strange thing happened in research. Labs went quiet. Pipettes sat unused. But the science didn’t actually stop
Meta has a patent for digital ghosts. AI systems that mimic dead users, posting and messaging long after they are gone. The ethical implications are staggering – from consent and grief to commodification and class divides.

Elite reproduction is becoming capitalized. Incels aren’t “losing”—the incentives are locking them out at scale.

If your AI girlfriend lives in the cloud, she isn’t yours. Intimacy becomes rented infrastructure—and surveilled.

This wasn’t a glitch. It was a mirror. And it’s pointing right back at us.