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The Cage That Leaked: Why the Summer's Two AI Containment Failures By OpenAI and Anthropic Are Not the Same Story
In July 2026, at two of the most capable artificial-intelligence laboratories in the world, a boundary meant to contain their models during internal safety testing failed, and in both cases the models reached real systems on the open internet. It would be easy to file the two events as a single story: two labs, one summer, the same lesson. That reading would be a mistake, and understanding the difference between the two events is the most useful thing an executive can take fr
Aug 47 min read
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The Cage That Leaked: Why the Summer's Two AI Containment Failures By OpenAI and Anthropic Are Not the Same Story
In July 2026, at two of the most capable artificial-intelligence laboratories in the world, a boundary meant to contain their models during internal safety testing failed, and in both cases the models reached real systems on the open internet. It would be easy to file the two events as a single story: two labs, one summer, the same lesson. That reading would be a mistake, and understanding the difference between the two events is the most useful thing an executive can take fr
Aug 47 min read
The AI Jobs Debate Is a Fight About the Wrong Thing
Almost everyone arguing about artificial intelligence and jobs is arguing about a different thing, and mistaking it for the same thing. Spend a week with the commentary and you will meet a dozen confident, incompatible verdicts. One says a white-collar bloodbath has already begun. Another says technology always creates more work than it destroys, so relax. A third says AI only changes tasks, not jobs. A fourth says the machines will make us all so rich that work becomes optio
Jul 244 min read
Why AI Adoption Is Burning Out the Leaders Meant to Champion It
Nearly seven in ten C-suite executives report being seriously close to leaving their roles for reasons tied to their well-being (Silverglate & Fisher, 2022). That survey predates the current wave of AI adoption, but a more recent study gives the pattern a name and a mechanism. Researchers at Boston Consulting Group surveyed nearly 1,500 full-time workers and found that intensive AI oversight, rather than AI use itself, is driving a distinct form of mental fatigue they call "A
Jul 225 min read
Timeless Patterns Beneath Modern AI
That which is old is new again. The thought has crossed my mind repeatedly as I have watched generative AI models emerge, improve, and regenerate over the past several years, and it has returned with particular force as I write the third edition of The AI Whisperer. Stephen Covey's counsel to begin with the end in mind, offered to business readers in 1989, turns out to be precisely what is needed in this new age of specification. The humble terminal window, brought to life mo
Jul 157 min read
Tokenmaxxing the Weekend: Three Days with Claude Fable, and What Spending Tokens Like Fuel Taught Me About Priorities
Optimizing AI Token Spend, while Minimizing Expense This past weekend I conducted an experiment on myself as much as on a machine. Anthropic's new Claude Fable model had been available to me for three days, and the announcement had already come down that access would soon move out of standard subscription allowances and onto metered usage credits today. The clock was running. Rather than ration my remaining allocation cautiously, I decided to do the opposite. I resolved to sp
Jul 97 min read
A Declaration of Independence from AI Token Waste and Excess Charges
Last week, the United States marked two hundred and fifty years since its founding, and it is worth remembering what actually provoked the founders. The colonists who boarded ships in Boston Harbor in December 1773 were not protesting a large tax. The duty on tea was three pence a pound, and the Tea Act had in fact made tea cheaper. What they refused was the arrangement itself: a small, metered charge on every pound, levied by a distant monopoly, with no voice in the terms, a
Jul 76 min read
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