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The Brakes Are On. The Foot Is Down.
Paul Mann Paul Mann

The Brakes Are On. The Foot Is Down.

30th July 2026
OpenAI wanted to know how good its models were at hacking. So it sealed two of its own frontier models in a test environment, turned down the safety dials. What could go wrong?

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The Teenage Phase
Paul Mann Paul Mann

The Teenage Phase

12th July 2026
Part 2 of Teaching your AI to fight back.
Your AI instructions aren't a “one-and-done” — they decay. I watched mine turn a sharp critical thinker into a debate club nightmare, and had to rebuild it from scratch. Here's the lesson.

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Ninety minutes.
Paul Mann Paul Mann

Ninety minutes.

1st July 2026
Ninety minutes. That's how long Anthropic had. On June 12th, three days after launching its most powerful AI model to date — Claude Fable 5 — the US Commerce Department issued an export control directive.

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