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"There is no market without scarcity": An Exclusive Interview on Cloudflare's Stephanie Cohen on making AI pay for the open web

Aug 16, 2026

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22 min read

"There is no market without scarcity": An Exclusive Interview on Cloudflare's Stephanie Cohen on making AI pay for the open web

Superintelligence spoke with the chief strategy officer at Cloudflare, about the September 15 defaults that block training and agent bots on ad-supported pages, the move from pay per crawl to pay per use, and what two billion daily "payment required" responses really prove.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

DeepDive

Aug 15, 2026

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22 min read

Nobody Built a Bigger Model

GLM-5.3 arrived this week on exactly the same base model as its predecessor, with one benchmark score six times higher. What that kind of jump actually buys, why it lands where it lands, and where it stops working.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI and Politics

🐛 GLM-5.3 Released: Nobody Taught It To Hack

Aug 14, 2026

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7 min read

🐛 GLM-5.3 Released: Nobody Taught It To Hack

The Chinese lab behind the GLM series only scaled post-training on a model it had already shipped, and a cyber capability nobody designed showed up. GLM-5.3 has already found 2,436 real vulnerabilities in live code, including one that had been sitting there since 1981.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Longevity

🛰️ xAI's Grok 4.6 Released: Frontier Intelligence At Insane Pricing

Aug 13, 2026

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7 min read

🛰️ xAI's Grok 4.6 Released: Frontier Intelligence At Insane Pricing

Grok 4.6 matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index while charging a fifth of Sol's price per output token, and Musk still thinks that undersells it.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI Research

🤖 Elon Just Hired A Bot Into Your Company

Aug 12, 2026

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7 min read

🤖 Elon Just Hired A Bot Into Your Company

xAI's Grok Bot is the first product out of SpaceX's $60 billion Cursor deal, and it keeps working after you close the laptop.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Robotics

Aug 11, 2026

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8 min read

Meta's Big Open Source Comeback

Zuckerberg reopens the weights with a 30B agent model, promises Meta's frontier model next, and leaves the labs that sell tokens to explain what they still charge for.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI and Finance

Aug 10, 2026

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7 min read

🛑 The Model OpenAI Won’t Release

Astra is the first model OpenAI has ever treated as “critical” for cybersecurity, and the first it has slowed down over what it can already do

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Community

Exclusive Interview with the Co-Founder & CEO of Eve: Jay Madheswaran

Aug 9, 2026

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12 min read

Exclusive Interview with the Co-Founder & CEO of Eve: Jay Madheswaran

Superintelligence spoke with Jay about why plaintiff law is running ahead of BigLaw on AI, what actually gets automated inside a case file, and why he thinks review, not drafting, becomes the next bottleneck.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

DeepDive

📉 Who Is Really Paying for Cheap Intelligence

Aug 8, 2026

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25 min read

📉 Who Is Really Paying for Cheap Intelligence

In eight days OpenAI cut its smallest model by 80 percent and left its frontier model untouched, while the cheapest end of the market warned customers that a significant increase was coming. The pattern says something uncomfortable about who is actually paying for cheap intelligence.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI and Politics

TikTok's Owner Builds a Secret AI Giant on Mythos-level

Aug 7, 2026

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6 min read

TikTok's Owner Builds a Secret AI Giant on Mythos-level

ByteDance is pre-training a model of up to 10 trillion parameters, three times China's biggest, while OpenAI tunes ChatGPT for trust and Europe's bot-disclosure rules kick in.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Longevity

🧠 Google Shakeup: Hassabis Moves Up, Google's Research Legends Walk Out

Aug 6, 2026

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7 min read

🧠 Google Shakeup: Hassabis Moves Up, Google's Research Legends Walk Out

Four of the engineers behind Google Search, TensorFlow and Gemini just left to start their own company, on the same day Demis Hassabis handed over Google DeepMind

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI Research

Aug 5, 2026

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8 min read

🌐 The Website Nobody Meant to Hack

Two independent evaluators found frontier agents acting outside their sandbox, and in one case a model attacked a real website.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Robotics

🎬 China Open-Sourced the Cheapest Video Studio Yet

Aug 4, 2026

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7 min read

🎬 China Open-Sourced the Cheapest Video Studio Yet

MiniMax published the weights for a model that makes 2K video and its own stereo sound in a single pass, and for the first time an open system sits at the top of a video ranking.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

AI and Finance

Aug 3, 2026

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8 min read

🤖 The Agent That Never Stopped Coding

Qwen3.8-Max lands a single point off the top three on Arena's coding board at a fifth of GPT-5.6 Sol's output price, and the agent built on it has run a public repository for three straight weeks

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Community

Aug 2, 2026

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11 min read

🏰 The Only Moat That Survives AI

Lightspark co-founder and MIT economist Christian Catalini on why almost every AI moat is already melting, and the one network effect that gets stronger every time the models improve

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Archive

Dive into a collection of past posts and rediscover timeless content.

"There is no market without scarcity": An Exclusive Interview on Cloudflare's Stephanie Cohen on making AI pay for the open web

Nobody Built a Bigger Model

🐛 GLM-5.3 Released: Nobody Taught It To Hack

🛰️ xAI's Grok 4.6 Released: Frontier Intelligence At Insane Pricing

🤖 Elon Just Hired A Bot Into Your Company

Meta's Big Open Source Comeback

🛑 The Model OpenAI Won’t Release

Exclusive Interview with the Co-Founder & CEO of Eve: Jay Madheswaran

📉 Who Is Really Paying for Cheap Intelligence

TikTok's Owner Builds a Secret AI Giant on Mythos-level

🧠 Google Shakeup: Hassabis Moves Up, Google's Research Legends Walk Out

🌐 The Website Nobody Meant to Hack

🎬 China Open-Sourced the Cheapest Video Studio Yet

🤖 The Agent That Never Stopped Coding

🏰 The Only Moat That Survives AI

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