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Artificial Confidence: You can’t repossess a download
A government nastygram took the country’s best coding model offline for everyone. What arrived the same week isn’t a frontier replacement; it’s an…
Jun 23
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Corey Quinn
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No failover for the Commerce Secretary
The US government switched off Anthropic's two best models for every customer on Friday evening. Your disaster-recovery plan has a runbook for an…
Jun 15
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Corey Quinn
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Claude Opus / Fable / Shitpost
In April it was too dangerous to release. In June it's in your Pro subscription until the 22nd, then it isn't, then maybe it is again.
Jun 9
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Corey Quinn
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Artificial Confidence: xAI, the Neocloud
xAI raised frontier-lab money, then used it to quietly turn into a GPU landlord, renting its Memphis data center to the two competitors out-shipping it…
Jun 9
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Corey Quinn
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Artificial Confidence: GitHub Repriced the Habit it Built
GitHub evolved its billing model, and you’ll feel it soon. Everyone else annualized their best month and called it revenue.
Jun 5
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Corey Quinn
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May 2026
Artificial Confidence: Banned by Pentagon, blessed by Pope, paid for by you
Five assumptions your AI vendor stack lost in five business days. The trade press will not be on the cc line of your Q3 invoice.
May 26
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Corey Quinn
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Artificial Confidence: The Spec for the Agent-Native Cloud, and Who Might Actually Ship It
I tweeted a twelve-point spec for what an agent-native cloud actually needs to look like. Vercel volunteered. Cloudflare's engineers got to work. Here's…
May 20
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Corey Quinn
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Artificial Confidence #2: The week AI labs became Palantir
Anthropic and OpenAI both stood up consulting arms this month. GitHub Copilot quietly admitted its subscription pricing never made sense. Vercel…
May 19
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Corey Quinn
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Artificial Confidence #1: AWS gave the agents a credit card
Inaugural issue. Microsoft Research benchmarked the agents and they're not ready; AWS gave them a credit card anyway.
May 12
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Corey Quinn
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