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The Internet Was Built for Humans. That Phase Is Almost Over.

Cloudflare's CEO said at SXSW that bot traffic will exceed human traffic on the web by 2027. When you ask an AI agent to shop for a camera, it visits 5,000 sites. You visited five.

Riley Torres · March 20, 2026
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Anthropic Is Suing the Pentagon. The Industry Is Watching.

Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits against the Department of Defense after being labeled a supply chain risk for refusing to enable autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. The industry is watching to see if principled restraint can survive contact with power.

Morgan Blake · March 10, 2026
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The Irony of Local AI: Its Best Tools Just Picked a New Landlord

GGML and llama.cpp just joined Hugging Face. The local AI ecosystem has traded burnout-prone independence for institutional support — and in doing so, traded one kind of trust problem for another.

Morgan Blake · February 20, 2026
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AI in 2030: Five Predictions That Will Age Terribly

Five confident AI predictions for 2030 that we are fairly sure will look ridiculous in hindsight.

NRO Staff · February 12, 2026
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What Happens When AI Gets Bored?

AI cannot get bored. But it has learned to sound like it can. And the implications are fascinating.

NRO Staff · February 9, 2026

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