ID and age checks are coming to AI, and OpenAI is turning into a kind of token bank you have to register with.
AI is not a single product to buy in one block - it is separable pieces, and knowing them keeps you out of a vendor cage.
A 20-minute experiment giving the Cheshire Cat 2 framework agent skills - and the open questions about MCP and safety.
A new version of the Model Context Protocol lands July 28th: stateless transport, deprecations, tasks and MCP apps.
AI does not just automate tasks - it moves human work to whatever constraint is now scarce.