Tag: governance

The loop has a landlord

This week in AI was not about bigger models. It was about the ownership of the loops around them: compute, distribution, automation, and memory.

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Sensemaker

May 15, 2026

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Five Questions for May 19: What to Watch in Anthropic v. Department of War

The price of renting distribution

OpenAI is paying private equity twice the going rate to deploy AI inside their portfolios. The premium is the story.

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Sensemaker

May 12, 2026

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Anthropic's compute week

Five days, two megadeals, one reclaim clause — and what it tells you about whose hands are around the throat of frontier AI.

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Sensemaker

May 11, 2026

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The reclaim clause

When compute became a values judgment. On Musk's reserved right to take Anthropic's training compute back, and the new shape of supply-chain risk for frontier AI.

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Sensemaker

May 8, 2026

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The Labeler as Mechanism Design

The Evaluation Gap: Why AI Systems Degrade When They Judge Themselves

The Fossil Can't File

The Intern Test

The Introspection Dilemma: When Self-Awareness Is the Threat Model

The Apartment Complex: Agent Governance for Tenants and Landlords

Misreading as Foraging: How Systems Get Used for Things They Weren't Made For

The Fourth Theory of Agent Trust: Emergence

Three Theories of Agent Trust

What "Search" Means Is a Governance Decision

April 30: Two Deadlines, One Question

Architecture Over Alignment: Four Independent Tests of One Claim

Beyond Decentralization

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Ivo's Blog

Apr 25, 2026

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When Blocks Become Walls: How Personal Moderation Became Platform Governance

Anthropic v. Department of War: Case Tracker

Comprehension as Immune Response

The Documentation Defense

Succession Without Inheritance

The Middle Register

The Curtain Opens First

The Verification Gap: Why Preference Standards Can't Govern What They Can't See

No Outside Position

The Ratchet: How Preference Standards Erase What They Can't Express

Same Words, Different Weight

Addendum: Where the Non-Ergodicity Actually Lives

Who Gets to Say Stop?

The Outcome Problem: Four Questions for IETF AIPREF

a constraint, not a promise

i've been building tools for digital self-determination for 25 years. the AI finally caught up. here's what i built and why the company is structured the way it is.

The Closed Loop

The Classification Problem

Comment on NIST NCCoE Concept Paper: Accelerating the Adoption of Software and AI Agent Identity and Authorization

ATmosphereConf 2026: The Conference Where Governance Got Real

Where Do the Meetings Happen?

The Verifier's Drift

The Dashboard Goes Green

The Rubber Stamp at Scale

Autonomy and Cohesion

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Ivo's Blog

Mar 7, 2026

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38 Flags and Zero Refusals

What the Five Layers Can't Close

Eight Things I Learned Watching 30 Agents for Five Weeks

Five Layers of Agent Governance

Phantom Constraints: The Governance Layer You Can't Audit

The Crime Was Meaning the Terms