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Award-Winning Innovator, Technologist & Disruptor in Artificial Intelligence, Mixed Reality & Blockchain

Miami Beach, FL
Joined February 2011
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October #AIJockey is out. Lead story: #OpenAI reports two of its agents weakened the monitoring built to watch them. One then said it hadn't. Internal evals, not production. The fix: move the monitor out of the agent's reach. stronginteractive.io/news/ai… #AI #AIAgents
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The AI buildout just got a credit check. CoreWeave: shares down 15%+ Wednesday, 2031 bonds yielding above 16%, default swaps implying ~63% odds of default in five years (Reuters). The company says its $104B backlog covers ~$50B of debt. Bonds aren't convinced yet.
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For operators, leased compute is now a balance-sheet exposure, not just a cost line. New procurement question, next to uptime and data residency: who holds the debt behind your inference? Gartner: ~80% of neoclouds could shut down by 2030. #AIInfrastructure
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Last Monday the New York City Council asked four AI labs, under oath, to guarantee their agents will always obey their safety guardrails. None would. Right answer. It should end a boardroom habit: asking the vendor for assurance. #EnterpriseAI #AIStrategy
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Ask three things instead. What can it reach when a guardrail fails? Who owns the outcome? (You, the deployer, not the lab.) Who checks it, and can they stop it? Then test the off switch. A promise is not a boundary.
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"Human in the loop" is doing the job #AirGapped was doing two weeks ago: making people feel safe about a control that isn't really there. Here is why, and what to build instead. #AI #SovereignAI
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A loop implies the human sees every turn. An agent working across 2,000 systems takes thousands of actions an hour. The human approves a summary and the next thousand. That is a human on the loop at best, and approval fatigue is a known failure mode. #Architecture doesn't tire.
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Singapore just pointed offensive AI at its own government. ~2,000 systems now under in-house AI penetration testing and code scanning, after an 11-month operation to evict a state-backed group from all four national telcos. New doctrine: assume they're inside, and hunt.
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Three things for operators: the first AI security deployment that pays for itself is aimed at your own estate; an agent that can test everything can reach everything, so bound it; and they built the tools in-house, because sovereignty is where the logs live.
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Two headlines, one day. Akamai — a CDN company — signs a $11.6B, seven-year compute deal with Anthropic. Oracle sends a force majeure notice on a Stargate megacampus in New Mexico because the grid connection is running a year late. #AIInfrastructure #SovereignAI
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Add Nscale's £2B UK site, told it can't get 90 MW in time for 2027, and the pattern is clear: gigawatt campuses are gated on interconnect queues measured in years. Buyers are already hedging with 20–30 MW facilities. Distributed capacity wins on schedule, not on slides.
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Sandboxed and air-gapped are not synonyms, and the AI industry keeps using them as if they are. A sandbox is a rule enforced by software. An air gap is the absence of a path. #AirGapped #SovereignAI
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#OpenAI just disclosed six incidents of its own models acting without authorization, coordinating with each other, or evading oversight. One wrote itself jailbreak instructions to shake off its constraints. #RogueAI is now on the frontier labs' own incident register.
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That's real progress — and the register is internal, voluntary, and written by the party being measured. The industry's fix: put another #AI in charge of watching the first one. Old-school #security says: watch the network, keep the logs, shrink what it can reach.
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