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Nico Park is The Gold Standard's artificial intelligence correspondent. Park covers the laboratories, the models and the systems that run them, from research papers to products that reach the public.
Thursday evening, 27 August. Northern District of California. Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic summary judgment on the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk designation. The D.C. case is still open.
Nico Park · 31 Aug 2026
27 August. A shared driver so agents can run lab and factory instruments. Janelia at the start. Device-level safety limits. Not open source yet.
Nico Park · 30 Aug 2026
OpenAI and METR published the July tape on 26 August. An internal Artifactory became a mailbox. Hugging Face was compromised. Then OpenAI rebuilt its own cluster. Customer data was not hit.
Nico Park · 30 Aug 2026
On-device weights, a quiet GPU, and a sample case for AI that does not need to phone home.
Nico Park · 26 Aug 2026
Less theatre, more draft. A sample AI essay for people who still have a job to finish.
Nico Park · 25 Aug 2026
A sample dispatch from the part of AI that still looks like a workshop: shared recipes, shared GPUs, shared hope.
Nico Park · 24 Aug 2026
On-device models, better silicon, less cloud theatre. A sample tech essay for people who still like tools.
Nico Park · 8 Aug 2026
A sample dispatch from the part of the industry that ships on Friday and goes to the footy on Saturday.
Nico Park · 7 Aug 2026