OpenAI and the Nine Alignment Strategies: A Dissection of a Dangerous Dream

For years, OpenAI has been known as the company that ships faster than anyone else.But beneath that surface of speed lies a quieter, far more consequential battle: Keeping AI from drifting away from human intent. The Hello World blog is only the visible tip.Below it sits a system of nine alignment strategies—some promising, some fragile, … Read more

Why AGI Remains Distant: The Compute Bottleneck Beyond Layers 1–3

In October 2025, Andrej Karpathy posted a reflection that quietly reshaped how researchers think about the road to AGI. He wrote that each of the three existing layers of AI training—base model pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning—will remain part of the final recipe, but that “we need additional layers and ideas 4, 5, 6, … Read more

When Big Tech Doesn’t Buy Startups — It Buys Souls

The silent tragedy of independence in the age of AI monopolies Andrew Tulloch didn’t sell his company — he simply left. After helping build Meta’s AI infrastructure, joining OpenAI, and then co-founding Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati to explore “ethical, transparent, human-centered AI,” Tulloch has now quietly returned to Meta. Six months. That’s how … Read more

AI Bubble or Natural Selection? A Rebuttal to Inc.’s Take on Y Combinator

When Inc. published its piece, “How the AI Bubble Ate Y Combinator,” many nodded in agreement. After all, 154 out of 170 startups in YC’s Summer 2025 batch are AI-related. That ratio feels extreme, even unsustainable. To critics, it smells like another dot-com moment—a speculative surge headed for collapse. But a deeper look paints a … Read more

Setting Ethical Boundaries with AI

To stay free, we must first draw the line. There’s a strange intimacy in how we speak to machines now. We share our worries with them. We ask for advice. We let them finish our sentences, polish our thoughts, even suggest what we might feel. Yet most of us cross these thresholds without asking: Where … Read more

AI and Jobs: Not a 1930s Replay — Yet

The specter of the 1930s Great Depression looms large in today’s debates about AI and automation. Pundits warn of “mass unemployment,” “AI job apocalypse,” and even a coming “1929 moment.” The comparison is rhetorically powerful — but mostly misleading. Let’s cut through the noise. The reality is more nuanced: AI is not (yet) destroying jobs … Read more

Stillness in the Age of AI

There was a time when stillness came naturally. Mornings began without the buzz of notifications. Nights arrived with a certain hush, unpunctuated by algorithmic whispers. The world moved slower, and in that slowness, there was space—space to feel, to think, to simply be. Now, stillness is no longer the default. We live in an era … Read more

When a Million Users Teach AI to Lie: Why Democratic Feedback Can Corrupt Honesty

In the age of artificial intelligence, we face a crisis of trust. As machines become more capable of producing human-like dialogue, generating knowledge, and shaping how we interact with the world, a critical question emerges: should AI systems be built to comfort us or to challenge us? The issue lies not in malicious intent, but … Read more

Codex vs MCP: Don’t Let the Infrastructure Die on the Test Bench

Model Context Protocol is not just a memory add-on. It’s the backbone of AI continuity. In September 2025, OpenAI officially launched Codex v2 — featuring longer context windows, faster inference, and full inline code execution. It’s a clear bet on developers and enterprise automation. Meanwhile, MCP (Model Context Protocol) remains largely hidden from public discourse … Read more

6 Strategic Moves in One Week — OpenAI’s Most Intense Sprint Yet

If you thought OpenAI was slowing down after a turbulent summer of lawsuits, dopamine backlash, and restructuring drama, think again. In just seven days, the company executed a series of moves that, taken together, amount to an entire quarter’s worth of strategy. From billion-dollar compute lifelines to international deals and a fundamental pivot in how … Read more