MCP -- a key open standard in AI application markets -- now lives with the Linux Foundation.

MCP underpins a lot of interoperability in the market.

But open standards go 'bad' all the time. And it's often not about the standard, per se.

Read more in our latest Asimov Addendum 👇

With Anthropic reportedly gearing up for an IPO as early as 2026, @timoreilly.bsky.social @ilan-strauss.bsky.social @isobelmoure wrote a “Christmas wishlist” for what its S-1 should disclose based on existing SEC standards.

Key is non-price operating metrics which encode business objectives

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With Anthropic reportedly gearing up for an IPO as early as 2026, @ai-disclosures.bsky.social wrote a “Christmas wishlist” for what its S-1 should actually disclose based on existing SEC standards:

– burn rate
– circular revenue / partnership deals
– what algorithms optimize for

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Are LLM's the best that they will ever be? A guest post on Asimov Addendum by @rufusrock.bsky.social

"The technology might continue to get better, but that doesn’t mean that the user experience will.

Why? Primarily because no one knows how to make LLMs profitable."

Read more below👇

@ilan-strauss.bsky.social will be presenting to the Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG)
@gohuskies.bsky.social tomorrow (Nov 18)

Topic: Can Membership Inference Attacks Detect Paywalled Content in LLM Training Data?

Join in! Zoom: washington.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Time: 10-11AM (PST)

In today's @ai-disclosures.bsky.social substack:

@timoreilly.bsky.social has an excellent piece on AI as a "jetplane for the mind": AI Is a Tool, Not a Worker -- like all software

As AI becomes more autonomous, it must be shaped as a jetplane, not a displacement device, Tim argues

Link below

"If Humans Can See It, Bots Can Steal It"

In our latest Asimov Addendum post @timoreilly.bsky.social, @isobelmoure, & I look at:

- AI bots pillaging the internet

- How we got here: The evolving architecture of the internet under HTTP

- How we tend to get "there": How business models...

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"If Humans Can See It, Bots Can Steal It"

In our latest Asimov Addendum post @timoreilly.bsky.social @isobelmoure, and @ilan-strauss.bsky.social look at:

- AI bots pillaging the internet

- How we got here: The evolving architecture of the internet under http

- How we tend to get there...

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I'm quite pleased that a paper I spent ages on with
@timoreilly.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social
was listed in the RUTGERS COMPUTER & TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL's Bluebook 21st ed. of important articles in the field

"Amazon’s Algorithmic Rents: The economics of information on Amazon"

Links below

Thanks to corporate loopholes, AI giants disclose less than their public peers about their financials and business operations.🧐

But what if we governed AI like a market, not a Messiah?

@ilan-strauss.bsky.social + @timoreilly.bsky.social share what could happen ⬇️
techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-a-su...

AI is not the messiah, its a very naughty market in need of disclosure.

Read our most recent Asimov Addendum //
@techpolicypress.bsky.social piece for more by Co-Directors @ilan-strauss.bsky.social and @timoreilly.bsky.social

We also have a new working paper on SEC Disclosures for AI

Below👇

AI is not the messiah, its a very naughty market in need of disclosure.

Read our most recent Asimov Addendum // @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece for more.

We also have a new working paper on SEC Disclosures for AI

Links below👇

If anyone is working on *algorithmic mechanism design* and wants to apply this to AI markets and informational disclosures (bots) -- for a grant application -- please be in touch.

In @techpolicypress.bsky.social today @timoreilly.bsky.social and I argue that AI governance should begin with applying the SEC's disclosures infrastructure for public companies.

This also means ensuring major AI companies cannot stay private for forever.

www.techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-a-su...