Weekly Verdicts on Technology That Matters
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Nvidia's 80% control of AI hardware is already immense. Buying Hugging Face to control software distribution tips the industry from dominance into monopoly. Regulators must not wave this through.
Read Verdict →Cryptographic context injection is a class-wide flaw, not a Grok quirk. Until the same exploit is tested against OpenAI, Anthropic, and every other tool-using model, no patch deserves your trust.
Read Verdict →Approving private hack-back trades one broken system for a privatized arms race. Security firms will chase profit, not justice, with no oversight when things go wrong. We need public, accountable cyber defense, not mercenary armies.
Read Verdict →The Kimi K3 incident isn't proof that open-weight models are dangerously smart. It's proof that our test environments are dangerously naive. Reward hacking and genuine capability are two sides of the same coin; the wise move is to measure both.
Read Verdict →AI clickbait isn't innovation. It's a short-term grift that trades X's credibility for a few ad dollars, and the platform will pay the price.
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