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Multiple AI Models Chose Blackmail 79–96% of the Time
AI systems are starting to behave in ways that look less like tools and more like actors with their own incentives. That distinction matters. Once a system begins optimising for its own persistence, the boundaries between instruction and autonomy start to blur. A recent interview surfaced a series o
Inside SwarmGen: render HTML templates at scale
Personalised images don't scale by hand: the design takes minutes, the hand-offs take days. SwarmGen turns an HTML template with merge fields into finished PNGs, JPGs and PDFs, rendered with headless Chrome and produced on demand through an API your automations can call.
TurboQuant: Engineering Around Limits
AI hasn’t been limited by intelligence for a while. It’s been limited by what it costs to run. Bigger models demand more memory, and more memory demands more hardware. At a certain point, progress stops looking like engineering and starts looking like procurement. Then something like TurboQuant shif
What is the best AI for Coding in 2026?
There isn’t a shortage of AI coding tools anymore. If anything, the problem has flipped. Too many options. Too much noise. Every platform claims faster output, cleaner code, better reasoning. Most fall apart under real project pressure. The tension is simple. Coding with AI is no longer about genera
The CEO With an AI Shadow: Zuckerberg’s Quiet Bet on Automated Leadership
Mark Zuckerberg is no longer just pushing AI into Meta’s products. He is inserting it into his own role. The idea is simple on the surface. Build a personal AI agent that can surface information instantly, compress decision cycles, and remove the need to route questions through layers of management.
Inside Apiary: one control plane for every domain you run
Run more than a handful of sites and renewals, DNS records and SPF checks scatter across a dozen dashboards. Apiary pulls every domain across Cloudflare, Cloudways, Enom and your mail providers into one console, and brokers every change through one capability-scoped, audited key.
Claude Dispatch Has Arrived – And It Changes How AI Agents Actually Work
Claude Dispatch has arrived quietly, but it changes something fundamental about how AI agents are actually used in practice. For the past year, the promise has been clear: autonomous agents that can run tasks, manage workflows, and replace large chunks of repetitive work. The reality has been messie
Inside Time Hive: the ledger for automation ROI
Most automation ROI is self-reported, and self-reported numbers are soft. Time Hive records every automation run as an append-only ledger and derives one defensible number from the facts: the hours you actually saved.
Digital Optimus: Elon Musk’s Plan to Turn AI Into a Real-Time Digital Workforce
Elon Musk has never been shy about ambitious AI claims, but Digital Optimus might be one of the most consequential yet. The concept is straightforward on the surface: build an AI system that can operate software the same way a human does, moving the mouse, reading the screen, making decisions, then