Ivan Nosov

The week in AI

What public sources reported in AI each week, and what it means for work. Read the summary; listen when there is an episode.

Six telephone operators seen from behind, seated in a row at a switchboard of numbered positions, 1927.
Switchboard operators, Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, 7 April 1927. U.S. National Archives. Public domain.
  1. Epoch AI report page titled Can AI automate Epoch?, dated 8 October 2026, listing three key findings. The second, on models missing implicit conventions such as visual style and audience interests, is highlighted.
    Exhibit Epoch's own summary: the models miss the house rules. Source: Epoch AI, Can AI automate Epoch?, 8 Oct 2026. Source.

    Week 41·3-10 October 2026

    Checking is now the scarce resource

    • Agents that act on the open web are producing incident reports
    • The harness buys cost, mostly

    8 stories 89 sources filed