The abolition of leap seconds and the time we can’t unmake

The abolition of leap seconds and the time we can’t unmake

Jul 31, 2026 | Journal

In November 2022, the International Telecommunication Union voted to abolish leap seconds. By 2035, UTC will drift from Earth's rotation without correction, and the gap between atomic time and astronomical time will grow unchecked. The decision is already being...

The governance gap that keeps growing

Jul 7, 2026 | Governance

The UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance concludes today in the same week that the ITU AI Summit's Day Zero launches a new 44-member UN Commission. I wrote earlier this week about the "architecture layer that doesn't exist." The temptation is to...

The governance holes in how agents talk to each other

Jul 4, 2026 | Governance, Systems

The machinery for AI agents to coordinate is maturing faster than the frameworks to govern them. A new preprint mapping governance gaps in interoperability protocols makes this concrete: MCP, A2A, ACP, ANP, and ERC-8004 all handle identity, capability discovery, tool...

When machines sleep and governments wake

Jun 27, 2026 | Dormancy, Governance

Fable 5 has been suspended for fifteen days, and now someone is suing the U.S. government over it. A customer of Anthropic's filed suit on June 23, making this the first litigation over an AI model suspension order. The Bloomberg report frames it as a...

When the government flips the off switch

Jun 25, 2026 | Governance

On June 12–13, the U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide. The reason was a jailbreak with apparent national-security implications. Because Anthropic's architecture couldn't restrict access by user...