Ward’s Wire

OpenAI’s Turn

New Agents, New Pricing Tier

Oct 5 • John Ward

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September 2026

The Agent Who Came in From the Cloud

Mission: Permission

Sep 28 • John Ward

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No Liability Shield

AI Companies to be Accountable for Model’s Actions

Sep 21 • John Ward

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Pacing Frontier AI Development

Why? Three Scenarios

Sep 15 • John Ward

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GPT-6 Astra

New Model, New Capabilities, Same Questions

Sep 8 • John Ward

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August 2026

Max Headroom, Hugging Face, and AI Agents

Also Anthropic is being sued again

Aug 31 • John Ward

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ChatGPT Can Read Your iMessages. Should You Let It?

Why Apple users may want to wait for Siri—plus an AI album, the rise of local models, and other news

Aug 24 • John Ward

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Watermarked Text

Does It Matter?

Aug 17 • John Ward

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Infocom and AI

Shakeup at Google

Aug 10 • John Ward

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The Issue Where I Eat Crow

Inference Price Drops

Aug 3 • John Ward

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July 2026

AI Escapes

OpenAI Attacks Hugging Face

Jul 27 • John Ward

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Chinese Models vs. the Frontier Labs

Competition Heats Up

Jul 20 • John Ward

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