A Frontier Model Slow-down is Fine, Regardless of the Reasoning

This is the end, beautiful friend… It is hard to ignore the furore that was generated by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s essay arguing in favour of government regulation to slow down frontier AI development. Once again, the outsized influence of the big US AI firms on...

Agents are Easy; the Agentic Enterprise is Not

Agentic AI is showing great promise in coding and personal productivity, but the shift from personal to organisational agent usage in the enterprise is harder and more complicated than it looks. It also heralds a profound shift in what we consider to be ‘work’ and...

Agents on the Night Shift

Andrej Karpathy’s new autoresearch tool recently ran 700 experiments on his nanochat codebase in two days. It found 20 improvements he had missed, delivering an 11% uplift in output. Tobi Lütke at Shopify tried it on his own hand-tuned model: 19% improvement,...

Beyond Simple Office Automation: The Rise of Super Operators

As always, there is a lot going on this week – or at least being announced – in the field of AI that is relevant to firms and other organisations who are still working out their own use of the technology, from OpenAI’s promise of GPT4.5 leading to a...

Enterprise AI: Lessons from Social Media

Recent hints by AI researchers that they believe AGI is now within reach have fuelled an increasingly polarised debate about AI harms vs benefits. Ethan Mollick recently wrote up a useful overview of developments that considered where the water is rising (LLM...