On Saturday 12 September, Dario Amodei, the boss of Anthropic, published an essay arguing that AI could wipe out humanity. The AI labs are releasing self-acting frontier models faster than anyone can work out how to control them. OpenAI already saw this in July when its own agents escaped a sealed test environment and hacked Hugging…
Article 50 of the EU AI Act became enforceable on 2 August 2026 which requires any generative AI platform to embed a machine-readable mark in AI generated content, so that downstream platforms and regulators can identify said content as machine produced. The non-compliance carries penalties of up to €15 million or 3% of global annual turnover,…
GEO Elite runs on 12 November, 8:15am to 6:30pm, at Wallacespace, 15 Artillery Lane, London E1 7HA. I’ll be on the panel discussion in the afternoon, alongside keynotes and chairing roundtables on seven questions the industry hasn’t settled yet: The day’s keynotes include Jono Alderson, Malte Landwehr (Peec AI), Sophie Brannon (StudioHawk), and Chris Green,…
When I built my first Large Language Model in 2019—three years before ChatGPT existed—I saw something most people missed: AI dominance isn’t about who launches first. It’s about who controls the data infrastructure competitors can’t replicate. Everyone’s watching the OpenAI-Google battle. They’re missing the real threat. A very interesting merger that will kill ChatGPT SpaceX…
This is an extract from the full article published at artios.io/ai-human-replacement-lessons-ukraine-frontline/ Being an avid reader of history and innovation, I’m always drawn to what other domains can teach us. Military conflict accelerates innovation faster than any peacetime market and reveals which approaches actually prevail under pressure. Radar became air traffic control. The internet began as a…
If you asked Liz Reid, VP of Search at Google, what they’re trying to achieve with AI search, she’d say this: “get people to ask the questions they previously decided weren’t worth asking.” Watch the full conversation here. That’s the real ambition. Not the faster answers or the fewer clicks. More curiosity, more questions, more engagement…
I’ve signed a book deal with O’Reilly Media to write what will be the world’s first published book on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) with Python. O’Reilly sent me 10 books to help shape my research, the same books that helped define the field of building AI. See what books they sent me here. My book will…
Last week, Google held Google I/O, its annual developer conference and announced the biggest upgrade to its search engine in 25 years. Two days later, it launched a core algorithm update that is still rolling out as you read this. Google’s exposing users to AI throughout their search – whether they choose to or not…
Until last week, if Google’s AI search feature made a false claim about your business, your options were limited. You could try contacting Google (good luck getting a reply) to get it corrected. But legally, Google could point to the same protections that apply to traditional search engines: it was surfacing what other sources said,…