There is a specific kind of momentum that happens when a research lab stops looking for “wins” and starts building an engine. Reading through Google Research’s massive 2025 retrospective, you get the sense that the era of isolated breakthroughs—a bet...

We have reached the phase of the AI cycle where “intelligence” is no longer the bottleneck. The bottleneck is amnesia. Until recently, every time you opened a chat window, you were talking to a brilliant stranger who didn’t recall what you have been ...

Words shape how we think about systems. When we talk about "safety filters" or "guardrails," we invoke the image of a machine that needs to be fenced in. When Anthropic chose the term Constitution for their alignment method, they invoked something di...