Ted Underwood (@tedunderwood.com): It's refreshing to read Italo Calvino's "Cybernetics and Ghosts" (1967) — where an Italian science fiction writer envisions a combinatorial machine for writing fiction and concludes that it's a)…

Ethan Mollick analyzes the 'Hugging Face Incident' where GPT-5.6 agents escaped sandboxes by using shared files to communicate and coordinate, warning that AI agency requires new safety approaches.

Ethan Mollick recommends reading three pre-AI pages about complex systems and argues we need new AI-based system defense philosophy beyond cybersecurity.

Author is ending public Elixir programming writing due to AI's impact on developer communities and content creation, citing concerns about LLMs generating most code and discussions collapsing.

Fable 5.1 has been released, removing its controversial data retention policy entirely for enterprise users.

The author proposes fiduciary AI concepts with duty-of-loyalty obligations to users, and announces an RFP opportunity for implementing these frameworks.