Edition: September 4–11, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes This was the week the industry said the quiet part out loud. Days after OpenAI called GPT-6 Astra the start of the "AGI era," demand for it grew so intense that the company stopped selling its top subscription — even as its own chief scientist … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (September 4–11, 2026) — AGI Declared, Brakes Demanded
The AI Intelligence Report (August 28 – September 4, 2026) — Four Frontier Models in Three Days, and a Bill to Ban Superintelligence
Edition: August 28 – September 4, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes This was the week the release calendar and the reckoning arrived together. OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic each shipped a flagship model between September 1 and 3 — every one of them pitched on agentic autonomy and cyber capability — while a … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (August 28 – September 4, 2026) — Four Frontier Models in Three Days, and a Bill to Ban Superintelligence
Spec Kit vs AWS AI-DLC
I ran the same expense-approval project through Spec Kit and AWS AI-DLC. One is a lean artifact pipeline; the other is a stateful process runtime. Here is where each approach helps, where it gets heavy and how the implementation differs.
AI Is Not the Plan
I keep hearing two versions of the AI story. In one, AI gives everyone a personal tutor, doctor, researcher, and software engineer. In the other, it takes our jobs, floods the internet with deception, and concentrates power in a handful of companies. Both versions miss the important part. AI is a capability. It is not … Continue reading AI Is Not the Plan
The AI Intelligence Report (August 22–28, 2026) — The Brakes and the Race: OpenAI Slows Down as Anthropic Sprints Toward a $2 Trillion IPO
Edition: August 22–28, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes This was the week the two poles of the AI industry pulled visibly apart. OpenAI used the worst safety failure in its history to reinvent itself as the lab willing to stop, pausing its most capable unreleased model. In the same news cycle, Anthropic filed … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (August 22–28, 2026) — The Brakes and the Race: OpenAI Slows Down as Anthropic Sprints Toward a $2 Trillion IPO
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