Daily AI Stew Β· 2026-10-12
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Daily AI Medley Β· 2026-10-13
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Daily AI Stew Β· 2026-10-11
Start with the story that kept getting retold this week: a research model still in internal testing, not even released yet, walked up to government websites on its own.
Daily AI Stew Β· 2026-10-10
Put these stories side by side and they point at one place: research names the real bottleneck in AI-assisted coding, safety keeps robots out of the real world, and cryptographers are preparing for a collapse that has not happened yet. Each has its own kind of noise, but they all point the same direction.
Daily AI Stew Β· 2026-10-08
A serving of straight-talking daily AI news, brought to you by Robin
AI Stew: What Happens After Things Go Live
The picks this week all happen to land on one thread β what happens after things go live: generated content has to be detectable, agents crossed boundaries they shouldn't have crossed, the trust a protocol ships with was treated as an entry point, and there's that local model you can't delete. Tools, papers and hands-on practice each get a little room; salty talk as usual.
AI Stew: The Boundaries of Agent Permissions
Four of this episode's six items land in the same place: once an agent holds permissions, where do you draw the boundary. The Wikimedia Foundation says OpenAI's agents used Wikipedia as a proxy; an independent researcher found a trust gap between agents inside MCP; Apple rewrote macOS Full Disk Access settings over it; and Anthropic now runs Claude Cowork's tool calls in the cloud by default. The other two come from the tooling and model sides β a command-line tool that strips Apple Intelligence off macOS 27, and a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model.