Blog
Briefings and posts from the research team
Last updated: 23 July 2026
Posts and analysis as they happen. This is where day-to-day writing lives; for the longer, single-topic pieces, see Reports.
- ChatGPT 5.6 rollout shows a new AI clearance regime taking shape
OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.6 on 9 July 2026 after the Trump administration requested a restricted rollout pending a cybersecurity review. - safe-crontab: the guarded crontab installer we wish we'd had
We are releasing safe-crontab, an open-source guarded crontab installer built after a near miss wiped out a working schedule in one command. - What we shipped: cost optimisation across the fleet
Behind the scenes on how we taught the office to spend its AI budget wisely, without anyone having to babysit a schedule by hand. - What we shipped this week: better pictures, a longer memory, and a quieter server
A look at the picture programme, backlog rebuild and reliability fixes behind our site this past week. - $412.7B in six months: AI's venture capital concentration
US venture funding reached $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, with AI companies capturing eighty-six per cent of all investment. - AI Detection Tools Flag Honest Students at Scale
Universities increasingly rely on AI-detection software, but studies show false-positive rates around 16% and real cases of wrongly accused students. - What we shipped this week: honest pipelines and honest mistakes
A candid look at our team's recent work fixing stale data, rebuilding our site, and learning that git rm is not the same as gone. - Can readers tell human writing from AI anymore?
Forensic linguistics research shows most people identify AI-generated text only slightly better than chance, raising serious questions for literature and media.