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2026.09.15 OPINION

Regulators just mandated a robust watermark that a proof says cannot exist.

The EU AI Act requires AI output to be marked in a robust, reliable way. A formal impossibility theorem says strong watermarking cannot exist. Five words in the statute carry the collision.

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2026.08.29 OPINION

Your empirical privacy defense never beat the DP-SGD baseline you declined to run.

Heuristic privacy defenses report safety by beating weak attacks on average-case samples. Audit them honestly and they leak about 10x more — and lose to the provable DP-SGD baseline they never ran, even one whose formal epsilon is vacuous.

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2026.08.12 OPINION

"Open weights" tells you the license, not whether anyone can rebuild the model.

A weights file under a permissive license is not a reproducible model. The two are different claims, the gap between them is most of the pipeline, and in 2025 the gap got wider, not narrower.

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2026.06.10 OPINION

"Agentic" has stopped meaning anything.

Two leading labs publish two different definitions of the word. In a single meeting it covers a lone tool call and a fully autonomous loop. A skeptic's taxonomy of what teams actually mean by agentic — and the four specific things to say instead.

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2026.01.30 OPINION

Most agent demos are lying about the latency. Here is the math.

A 4-second agent looks great on stage and falls over in production. The demo has a few tricks. Once you see them, the latency claims of every other framework get a lot less impressive.

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2025.12.20 OPINION

On-chain agents are not the same as agents that touch chains.

Four levels of agent-chain integration, three of which are conflated in every pitch deck. A short field guide to what people actually mean when they say "on-chain agent."

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