Vlad's Newsletter

Everyone Agreed to Slow Down

Six models in eighteen days, two training pauses, and the three clocks behind the AI race.

Oct 6 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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September 2026

Homonym

Four powers said "safety" this week and meant four different things. That is why no treaty is coming, and what it changes for your next 18 months.

Sep 15 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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August 2026

Harness

The model is rented. The harness is yours. Where AI leverage actually lives now.

Aug 28 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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"Not Me" Podcast Episode #12: The Geopolitics of Growth

Your business now has a political beta. Most operators have never measured theirs.

Aug 19 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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The Probability Tax

Why a two-hour AI film needed 473,600 generations, plus the exact prompt skeleton that lowers your bill.

Aug 17 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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Plan Human

We are funding one side of the intelligence equation and assuming the other side stays in control. Here is what the missing hedge would cost.

Aug 11 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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July 2026

Handle

1,224 frontier lab employees asked for a brake. By the time I finished writing this, 1,273. Nobody asked who gets to pull it.

Jul 30 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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Plan A

The first term sheet ever written for the singularity: what humanity gets, what it pays, and the quiet October night when it all gets decided.

Jul 10 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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Open-source

Fable is back. Which is exactly why I need to talk to you about the minds nobody can ever take away from you.

Jul 7 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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Provenance

When every credential can be forged for free, the only thing left to sell is your name on the line.

Jul 3 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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June 2026

The Attention Floor

The bottleneck has been moving for decades. It just reached the one station it can never leave: a human, with a fixed number of hours, paying attention.

Jun 30 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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The Anti-Content Premium

When the copies are free, the only thing left to sell is the proof a human was here.

Jun 25 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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