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• Oct 20, 2026 Goodbye AI Bubble, Hello Real Economy
  Actual productive capacity, and the ability to make real things we need like medicine and food and toys and cars and personal protective equipment, is what matters in the long-run. Right now, we aren’t paying attention to that, at all.
• Sep 29, 2026 Radio signals were detected from an exoplanet - but it's not aliens
  It's the signal coming from the exoplanet's auroras, created by charged particles interacting with atmospheric and magnetic field conditions to release energy.
• Sep 28, 2026 Scare mongering from AI companies is just an attempt to shift responsibility

  All the recent warnings about the dangers from AI are coming from AI companies.

  I believe this is a legal risk mitigation strategy - they are attempting to shift responsibility from themselves (as the creators of AI agents and tools) to the agents themselves. Remember this the next time you hear reports about the risks of AI or a "rogue" AI agent that "escaped" a lab and hacked another company's website. AI agents don't go "rogue", they are simply improperly designed or implemented without the appropriate controls or mitigations in place. This is the fault of the creators of these AI agents and tools, not the tools themselves.

  A poor carpenter blames his tools.

• Sep 27, 2026 There are no “rogue” AI agents, only careless AI companies
  OpenAI had the option of disallowing hacking and, instead, telling its agents to find the information without accessing private servers. That the company didn’t do this suggests that it wanted to see if the agents would take that step.
• Sep 25, 2026 Can we run agents reliably, securely, and cost-effectively at scale?
  AWS' Agentic AI Lens is a framework that attempts to address this question.