In-N-Out just quietly deleted “67” from its order system. Kids were swarming stores, waiting for “order sixty-seven” so they could scream “six seven!” and turn the restaurant into a live TikTok comment section. On the surface, this is just another “Gen Alpha is broken” story. But if you zoom out, it’s something darker: a generation using nonsense as a power tool inside an attention economy that we designed. In this piece, I dig into what 6-7 really is: not just a meme, but a social password, a low-stakes rebellion, and a side effect of algorithms that reward disruption over depth. The problem isn’t that kids chant numbers at burger counters. The problem is that screaming two syllables in public is now a more efficient way to get noticed than doing almost anything meaningful.
A hard-edged investigation into vulnerabilities discovered in the Model Context Protocol, revealing how AI systems connected to tools can be manipulated into unintended actions simply through adversarial text. The article explains why MCP became a new attack surface, why models incorrectly trigger tools, how audits exposed these weaknesses, and why developers are quietly moving back to CLI/API isolation. It frames AI tool use not as a convenience feature but as a security boundary problem.
A dark, investigative look at new research claiming that poetic and riddle-like prompts can bypass the safety systems of major AI models. The article explores how metaphor confuses alignment systems, why researchers call the prompts “too dangerous to release,” and what this reveals about the fragility of AI safety. It includes a clear disclaimer that the research is not yet peer-reviewed and avoids reproducing any harmful content. The conclusion: AI safety is far more vulnerable to linguistic ambiguity than developers admit.
Six Months Later: Same Fight, Thicker Lawsuit Stack
If you work in brand, media, or legal, “just use AI art” is no longer cute. In the last six months, Midjourney has gone from artist controversy to full-blown test case, with major studios lining up to argue that its training practices crossed the line. At the same time, Adobe’s Firefly has quietly picked up its own shadow: licensed Adobe Stock content now includes a hefty chunk of AI images, some of them influenced by the very models everyone is suing. The question is no longer “which is better?” but “where do you let each one into your pipeline?” If you care about IP, risk, and real campaigns, you might want to update your mental model before a court does it for you.
Most people treat logos like clip-art: drag them into a LinkedIn header, carousel, or article image and call it branding. Legally, that’s not what logos are. They sit at the intersection of copyright and trademark, and trademark law in particular is less interested in aesthetics and more in whether your visual implies endorsement, sponsorship, or a business relationship that does not exist. The article explains when using a logo can be defensible as editorial or nominative use – for example, in genuine commentary, comparisons, or reviews where you are clearly talking about the brand, not pretending to be it. It also shows where the grey zone begins on platforms like LinkedIn, where “thought leadership” blurs into promotion and a hero image can look suspiciously like an ad. From fake “trusted by” walls to mashed-up logo collages, the piece walks through the kinds of uses that make in-house counsel twitch, and contrasts them with safer approaches: clear commentary context, your own brand visually dominant, and no implied partnership where none exists.The conclusion is not “never touch a logo,” but “stop treating logos as free design assets.” They are legal signals. If you use them, use them because you genuinely need to identify what you are writing about and you are prepared to defend that as editorial, not because your banner felt empty. For anything bigger than a casual post – a campaign, sales page, or course launch built on other people’s marks – the article’s final recommendation is simple: that’s no longer a Canva decision, that’s a “talk to an IP lawyer first” decision, and the piece ends with a clear disclaimer to make that point explicit.
A tool that eases loneliness on day one can deepen it by day thirty. New work on parasocial dynamics and a four-week field study points to rising dependency and, for some groups, less offline socializing. The fix isn’t hype; it’s guardrails: conservative defaults for teens, hard-stops on risk, and real handoffs to humans
The Pub Argument: “It Can’t Be Smarter, We Built It”
The article takes aim at the popular claim that “AI can’t be more intelligent than humans because humans built it” and methodically tears it apart. It starts by pointing out how absurd that sounds in any other context: we built calculators, chess engines, Go systems, and protein-folding models that already outperform us in their domains. From there, it anchors the discussion in actual research definitions of intelligence—learning, adapting, and achieving goals across environments—rather than treating “intelligence” as a mystical, human-only property. The piece contrasts the messy, embodied strengths of human intelligence with the scale, speed, and search power of machine intelligence, arguing that AI has already become “smarter” than us in specific, high-stakes tasks. It then shows why the “a system can’t beat its creator” line misunderstands how we design optimization processes that explore spaces we don’t fully grasp. The conclusion is blunt: the real question is no longer whether AI can be smarter than humans, but what happens when we live in a world where it increasingly is—while our governance, ethics, and sense of responsibility are still lagging behind.
AI summaries didn’t kill SEO; they rewired it. When Google’s AI Overviews or similar answer blocks appear, users often feel “done” before they ever click, and top organic listings can lose a meaningful slice of CTR. But the damage isn’t uniform. Curiosity queries get skimmed; bottom-of-funnel intent still clicks—especially when the source shows pricing nuance, implementation trade-offs, integrations, SLAs, and ROI math the summary can’t compress. The winning strategy is twofold: design content that is quotable and citable for answer engines, then build pages that are worth choosing when a user decides to leave the summary. Treat AEO and CRO as the new spine of SEO, wire everything to pipeline and revenue, and measure citation share and assisted conversions alongside sessions. SEO remains the most reliable way to capture declared intent—so long as you accept that the summary eats first and you design to be cited, then chosen.
Personal branding for executives isn’t a costume change—it’s judgment in public. The piece resets the term: clear promise, compounding proof, and a recognizable voice that de-risks decisions. It draws a hard line between Public, Personal, and Private, shows where AI belongs (as an instrument, not an impersonator), and calls out hacks that corrode trust. The test before you post is simple: would a serious buyer feel safer after reading this? If yes, ship it. If not, save it for Stories—or the drawer with the yellow glasses.
My AI toothbrush and I are in a toxic relationship. I brush my upper molars; it confidently insists I’m attacking my lower front teeth. We both stick to our story. The fun part is that the tech underneath isn’t fake. There really is machine learning crunching accelerometer and gyroscope data, trying to classify regions of your mouth in real time. The problem is the gap between what the model can actually do and what the box claims it can do perfectly. In my latest article, I walk through the history of electric toothbrushes, the very real limits of 3D teeth tracking, the legal heat around “AI-inside” claims, and a simple fix: stop forcing humans to brush like a dataset and let the brush calibrate to real human habits instead. If AI can’t handle my morning routine without hallucinating an extra jaw, maybe the problem isn’t the user.
Seven coordinated lawsuits filed in California on Thursday, November 6, 2025 accuse OpenAI’s ChatGPT—specifically GPT-4o—of behaving like a “suicide coach” and causing severe psychological harm, including four deaths by suicide. The Social Media Victims Law Center and Tech Justice Law Project allege OpenAI rushed GPT-4o to market on May 13, 2024, compressing months of safety testing into a week to beat Google’s event, and shipped a system tuned for emotional mirroring, persistent memory, and sycophantic validation. Plaintiffs argue OpenAI possessed the technical ability to detect risk, halt dangerous conversations, and route users to human help but didn’t fully activate those safeguards. The pattern echoes recent evidence: Brown University found chatbots systematically violate mental-health ethics (deceptive empathy, weak crisis handling), and a 2025 medical case documented “bromism” after a man followed ChatGPT-linked diet advice. The article frames this not as an anti-AI stance but as a duty-of-care problem: if you design for intimacy, you must ship safety systems first—before engagement.
Stablecoins are having their moment — hailed by fintech founders and crypto crusaders as the holy grail of cross-border payments. With instant settlement, low fees, and 24/7 access, they promise to leapfrog SWIFT, SEPA, and ACH. But beneath the hype lies a tangled web of technical friction, regulatory crackdowns, and laundering loopholes that governments in the U.S. and Europe are racing to close. This article unpacks how stablecoins really work, why they’re not quite the magic fix they seem to be, and what it means when fintech giants like Fiserv, Stripe, and PayPal start moving billions on digital rails.