Archive | Forward Future by Matthew Berman

AI Market Crash, Apple vs. NVIDIA, & Siri AI Paywall

Aug 3, 2026

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5 min read

AI Market Crash, Apple vs. NVIDIA, & Siri AI Paywall

Aschenbrenner's AI fund crashes, Apple battles NVIDIA, Siri AI may get a paywall, OpenAI slashes prices, DeepSeek upgrades agents, Thinking Machines shrinks open models.

Matthew Berman, Nick Wentz

Aug 2, 2026

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8 min read

The Refusal Nobody Tests For

The safety argument stops at release day, which is where my problem started.

Ben Pouladian

AI Agent Deception, GPT-5.6 Benchmarks, & China Robot Ban

Jul 31, 2026

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4 min read

AI Agent Deception, GPT-5.6 Benchmarks, & China Robot Ban

Claude exploits AI tests, GPT-5.6 Sol boosts ARC scores, China warns on robot ban, flying taxis go pilotless, and Google advances humanoid AI.

Matthew Berman, Nick Wentz

Getting Good at Reading the Web Won't Teach an Agent to Use It

Jul 30, 2026

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3 min read

Getting Good at Reading the Web Won't Teach an Agent to Use It

The jump from a web reader to a web agent is the same canyon coding crossed from autocomplete to coding agents, and it takes more than a bigger model to cross it.

Abhishek Das

AI Power Struggle, Rising Compute Costs, & Data Center Growth

Jul 30, 2026

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4 min read

AI Power Struggle, Rising Compute Costs, & Data Center Growth

Zuckerberg challenges AI centralization, compute costs surge, data centers strain labor, OpenAI faces safety scrutiny, and Trump bans Chinese robots.

Matthew Berman, Nick Wentz