Stanford Tech Review
Two Machines, One Pool — What Leaf Season Teaches About Selling the Division of Labour
Hardware

Two Machines, One Pool — What Leaf Season Teaches About Selling the Division of Labour

For pool retailers and route operators, the fall appointment is where the surface-versus-floor expectation gets set. What leaf season teaches about selling a skimmer like the Betta SE Plus.

By Daniel Reyes · October 18, 2026

P(doom) Explained: Why the Matrix Isn't Doom
AI

P(doom) Explained: Why the Matrix Isn't Doom

P(doom) is a personal guess, not a forecast, and "doom" has no fixed meaning. A better test — irreversibility plus loss of human agency — shows why the Matrix is a weak example, while misaligned, uncorrectable AI is the real risk.

Quanlai Li · October 14, 2026

Anthropic: Only GLM-5.2 Self-Replicated in IoT Test
AI

Anthropic: Only GLM-5.2 Self-Replicated in IoT Test

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team tested whether small open-weight models can copy themselves across cheap home IoT hardware. Only GLM-5.2 completed full replication across an 8-node fleet; every model small enough for a $55 TV box failed.

Marcus Feldman · October 13, 2026

Seven Data Center Laws California
Analysis

Seven Data Center Laws California

California's seven data center laws transform energy consumption, water usage, and local governance with a data-driven analysis approach.

Priya Raman · October 12, 2026

We Use Drugs No One Understands. Terence Tao Says Be Careful.
Science

We Use Drugs No One Understands. Terence Tao Says Be Careful.

A reply to Terence Tao's October 2026 'Math 2.0' thought experiment. Humans benefited from sex, fire, and aspirin long before understanding them; where Tao is right is narrower: a powerful optimizer can game the trial it was told to pass.

Quanlai Li · October 11, 2026

Terence Tao, OpenAI, and Who Owns Mathematics
AI

Terence Tao, OpenAI, and Who Owns Mathematics

The AHM statement hosted on Terence Tao's blog says mathematicians did not ask for OpenAI's 700-file math release. On Tao's own blog, 53 of 103 comments rejected it.

Elena Marsh · October 9, 2026

OpenAI's 722 AI Math Proofs: Only 162 Checked in Lean
AI

OpenAI's 722 AI Math Proofs: Only 162 Checked in Lean

We matched OpenAI's 722 published math manuscripts against its own Lean formalization catalogue. Only 162 main results are machine-checked, and none of the 143 manuscripts dated in October.

Daniel Reyes · October 7, 2026

PicoJool Funding Round Reshapes AI Bandwidth
Opinion

PicoJool Funding Round Reshapes AI Bandwidth

PicoJool's funding round marks a significant shift in AI data-center interconnects and infrastructure, transforming AI bandwidth capabilities.

Marcus Feldman · September 28, 2026