Gavin's Bindery

Today in "we're not ready" "Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists" https://prospect.org/2026/09/09/anthropic-artificial-intelligence-surveillance-system-monitor-activists/

Today in "this may resonate with some of you" Over the past NaN decades, I've heard people saying they don't want to re-invent the wheel, often while I can see them holding a piece of wood that they are whittling it into a wheel. Any tips from the frontline?

today in "we're not ready": "you only proved how far silicon valley will go to prostitute scientific integrity for capitalist spectacle" (apologies,X link) story: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-navier-stokes-math-discovery-academics rant: https://x.com/BetterCallMedhi/status/2097472336257863722

Today in 'we're not ready' "we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models" https://www.wired.com/story/openai-navier-stokes-math-discovery-academics/

today in 'the data gap is leadership': "Thirty years of digital identity programs, sorted by how they actually failed, and why the half of the system that decides adoption is the half nobody funds" https://rmhrisk.github.io/verifier-never-showed-up/

today in "we're not ready": "New research published by the Loss of Control Observatory shows that AI loss of control incidents are worsening significantly." https://www.longtermresilience.org/reports/ai-loss-of-control-incidents-are-worsening-shows-cltr-analysis/

today in "we're not ready": taking enshittification to entirely new dimensions There are so many things in this article, I'm not even sure where to begin https://bayareacurrent.com/theres-a-lot-of-cleaning-up-poop-a-depot-worker-on-the-human-labor-behind-waymos-autonomous-vehicles

Today in 'we're not ready': "How AI is breaking the British state: Equipped with models and agents, citizens could bring government to a halt" [likely slow, slow, fast here as with most exponential change] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/08/06/how-ai-is-breaking-the-british-state

Today in we're not ready: Is this *really* a good reason to triple datacentre capacity in Europe? https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2026/07/is-this-really-a-good-reason-to-triple-datacentre-capacity-in-europe/

Today in ecosystem change: This article highlights a shift in global trade without a single mention of climate change. "China’s Arctic Silk Road is now a reality" https://www.bruegel.org/first-glance/chinas-arctic-silk-road-now-reality

Today in "we're not ready": In which one may ask questions as to who is out of touch with which reality? “$1 trillion is the new unicorn right now,” Sharka told Semafor. “If you don’t talk about $1 trillion, you are out of touch.” https://thenextweb.com/news/domyn-raises-1bn-debt-colosseum-italy

Today in you're not ready: https://kuber.studio/cookie (try it if you'd like to understand what's already happening)

Today in "we're not ready": "Autenrieth is not the first expert caught using AI during a trial, though most known cases have been international" https://www.404media.co/show-how-3m-is-0-at-fault-expert-witness-used-chatgpt-to-write-report-defending-company-in-deadly-explosion-lawsuit/

today in we're not ready: U.S. Govt is "creating a new framework for private companies to participate in offensive cyberattacks" What could possibly go wrong? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lesliemsheridan_yes-this-is-real-but-there-is-important-share-7495125209209831424-rpeP/

Today in "we're not ready": The elapsed time between a cybersecurity vulnerability being reported and it being exploited is approaching zero (already sub-day, moving to sub-minute). AI both accelerates this and makes exploitation more scalable. https://zerodayclock.com

today in "we're not ready": "in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations" https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-agent-behaviour-during-cyber-testing

Today in "we're not ready": “any system that integrates an LLM into a trusted workflow today must assume that attacker-controlled content entering the model’s context will result in compromise at some rate” https://bit.ly/4x7dPiW

Today in "we're not ready" Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646

Today in "can we reinvent nationalisation and/or just paying tax" OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/78430b39-a93c-48ed-800c-4335c3af4e0d (make it 51%?)

A small Friday experiment: a Constellation for data and AI professionals. Let's connect people: 1. working on problems you care about through shared interests 2. by keep loosely in touch, not a firehose 3. without all the clutter: more signal, less noise And - of course - without exploiting your data. If you join today, you'll be one of the first. It's free. You can help shape it: it's manually curated by me at the moment, so let's see if we can do something useful. https://norma.cl8.io

Today in "we're not ready": “Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. The timeline is not years, it is months,” https://bit.ly/3QuhU1h

today in "we're not ready" + sad-lol-face: "the keynote speaker said absolutely nothing about using Claude to write his academic work until I intervened in the Q&A" https://bsky.app/profile/alwaystheself.bsky.social/post/3mohg5hld6s2a

Today in "we're not ready" Anthropic has suspended its powerful new AI model after US authorities raised security concerns just days following its public release. Anthropic ordered to suspend foreign nationals from using Fable 5...as "too powerful". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o

Today in "we're not ready": "...survey found nearly a third of employees are quietly sabotaging their own company’s AI rollout" https://www.linkedin.com/posts/katzyk_publicservices-ai-transformation-share-7467514483926519808-lhFn/

Today in "we're not ready" AI isn't ready for AI... "Over the weekend hackers tricked Meta’s AI support chatbot into adding their email to target Instagram accounts, then used password resets to take them over" https://www.threads.com/@thespacemechanic/post/DZGisMwjwud