Plain Strata: The Permission Slip
The Tuesday Pulse. On Friday, the most powerful AI available to the public shipped, and to use the most capable version you first needed approval from the US government: around twenty companies, cleared case by case by the White House, after the model scored 96.7% on a cyberattack test and crossed the government's threshold for a high-risk system. The company complied, then asked that this kind of review not become the long-term default. This episode sets that next to its mirror image. The same week, Prime Intellect, a team whose whole identity is training AI without a central data center…
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