I write about AI and Geopolitics
And why Meta just bought the first large-scale experiment in synthetic sociability. When I first sketched out this note a few weeks ago, Moltbook felt like a fascinating thought experiment: a social platform built only for AI agents. A Petri dish where digital life could evolve in public. Then Meta bought it on March 10. What was … Read more
Clay Montgomery owns a blacksmith shop in Texas. He works with his hands, shaping metal into useful objects the old-fashioned way. Technology, as he puts it, “is not exactly my forte.” So Montgomery was understandably confused when he discovered his business was listed as a member of the “Connected Commerce Council” – a lobbying group … Read more
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about something I don’t believe gets enough attention in public discussions of frontier AI. We still tend to talk about AI progress as though it unfolds on a curve we can roughly track. Models improve. Benchmarks rise. Products get better. The line moves upward. Even when the pace feels … Read more
Israel’s AI Revolution — Part 4 NSO’s Reinvention In January 2026, NSO Group released a new transparency report. The company said it was entering “a new phase of accountability.” The document gave away almost nothing: fewer disclosures than in prior years, no customer numbers, no country names, no meaningful account of investigations into misuse. It … Read more