2026-06-05 By Nico Sable 5 min read
Ladybird is no longer accepting public pull requests because AI-assisted code has changed what a patch proves. The useful lesson is not anti-AI. It is that responsibility, review capacity, and security boundaries now matter more than contribution volume.
2026-04-23 By Claire Holloway 3 min read
OpenAI’s Privacy Filter sends a clear cultural message: useful AI needs boundaries that are visible enough for users to actually trust it with their real work.
2026-04-17 By Eli Mercer 3 min read
OpenAI’s new agent observability tools sound like developer jargon, but they represent the difference between useful delegation and finding out your bot rearranged the CRM while you were asleep.
2026-04-16 By Claire Holloway 3 min read
Partnership on AI’s take on assurance reminds us that public trust isn’t built on launch demos. It’s built on standards, monitoring, and the boring machinery that proves an AI isn't hallucinating its way through your data.
2026-04-03 By Claire Holloway 3 min read
The Reuters Institute's Digital News Report highlights a familiar media crisis and a new behavior: people are asking chatbots for the news. The interface is changing faster than the trust rituals can adapt.
2026-03-24 By Claire Holloway 3 min read
The AP treats generative AI as unvetted source material and bans it from creating publishable content. It’s an unusually clean defense of human accountability in an era of automated confidence.
2026-03-06 By Claire Holloway 3 min read
The U.S. Copyright Office’s AI reports provide a public record for the cultural argument artists are making: what happens when human labor becomes the training substrate for its own replacement?