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October 21, 2026
6 min read
Opinion

The FTC Probe Means One Boring Thing: Keep the Agent's Logs

Regulation of AI agents will land on audit trails. Build them now and you're ahead.

October 21, 2026
5 min read
Opinion

Midjourney Still Can't Do Hands, and That's a Fine Filter

The artful frames are gorgeous. The fingers are a tell. Use both facts on purpose.

October 21, 2026
6 min read
Opinion

Gemini 4 Argon Is Powerful and Deliberately Hard to Reach

Google gave its best new model to cyber defenders first. That tells you who they're afraid of.

October 21, 2026
7 min read
Opinion

Agents That Place Orders Scare Me More Than Agents That Write

Shopify and Meta gave bots checkout access. The convenience is real; the guardrails aren't.

October 21, 2026
5 min read
Opinion

Reflection Beam Is Open Weights and That Changes Who Gets to Audit

A 501B open model means the research community, not the vendor, checks the claims.

October 21, 2026
5 min read
Opinion

Haiku 5.5 Is So Cheap I Stopped Hoarding Tokens

At ten cents per million input, Claude's small model changed how I route work.

October 21, 2026
7 min read
Opinion

GPT-6's Intelligent UI Makes Chat Feel Like a Tiny Website

The new buttons, forms and charts inside ChatGPT are useful -- until they hide the source.

October 21, 2026
7 min read
News

Three Safety Stories That Should Quiet the Hype

A training pause, a cancelled model, and malware that consults other AIs.

October 21, 2026
6 min read
News

Open Weights Had Its Best Month

Beam, Mistral Large 4 and Qwen drops put front-tier models in operator hands.

October 21, 2026
5 min read
Opinion

AI Avatars Let Me Ship Training Video Without a Camera

Synthesia won't replace a real person, but it ends the 'no budget for video' excuse.