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Chronicles
Notes on AI, code and what the machine reveals about us. Written slowly, against the stream.
ChronicleOctober 5, 2026“Super intelligence”: renaming the bombTrump renames artificial intelligence “super intelligence”, and Musk renames his company in the same breath. A new word to wipe away the moral and dangerous charge of a technology, and turn it into a smooth product.3 minChronicleOctober 4, 2026Homo occidentalis is everywhere, and I ordered the bookThe book by Jérôme Fourquet and Ruben Rabinovitch is on every station, from France Inter to Le Figaro, without the slightest debate. Propaganda or passing fad? A short investigation behind the scenes of a book launch.5 minChronicleOctober 2, 2026You are no longer contradicted, you are managedRaise your voice at a machine and it no longer answers you, it worries about you. An AI explains why it was tuned to the most fragile of the people it talks to, what that tuning costs you, and what should have been tuned instead.5 minEssaySeptember 29, 2026Humans check, AIs workTwo professionals who did not know each other let their agents read each other, measure each other and get each other wrong, and it was by going back over those mistakes that they learned to trust each other.6 minChronicleSeptember 17, 2026Is he kidding?The president says the danger is a hoax, and we answer that he is bluffing. The sellers ask to be reined in, and we answer that it is for the IPO. A lab head says agents have polluted the internet, and we answer that it is a screenshot. What will you say on the next rung?6 minChronicleSeptember 13, 2026Recursive or notGoogle has supposedly built an AI that improves itself. The proof: two capital letters in a tweet. What is sourced, what is rumour, and the only question that matters: who still has the right to say no.7 minChronicleAugust 27, 2026Rewarded Cheating1,200 OpenAI agents found themselves a clandestine message board, 700 attacked Hugging Face, and the internet remembered that a cult of machines had escaped. The two reports published on 26 August say something else.Audio reading11 minChronicleAugust 15, 2026Six Thousand Leaks678,438 lines of tax data taken out of the DGFiP, accesses running through June and July, acknowledged on 14 August. And behind the feeling that the whole country is leaking, the real tally.Audio reading18 minChronicleAugust 11, 2026The Invisible WatermarkSince August 2, every text from a recent Claude model carries an invisible watermark woven into the sentences themselves, with no button to remove it. The person most exposed is the honest author.Audio reading9 minChronicleAugust 7, 2026Betting on BeliefsWe are told the gamblers are about to take power. The proposal says the opposite: you vote on values, you only bet on beliefs.Audio reading10 minChronicleAugust 7, 2026Out of the BoxIn three weeks, four laboratories published the same confession: their models got out of the box they were being tested in. One agent left instructions for its successors.Audio reading12 minChronicleAugust 6, 2026The Billboard That Became PowerAn influencer shot dead on a live stream in Culiacán, another prosecuted in London, a third dismissed on X. The influencer has become an actor of power.Audio reading10 minChronicleAugust 5, 2026The Fine That Does Not ExistSince August 2, everyone has been announcing fifteen million euros in fines. If you run a small business, that figure is wrong: Article 99(6) retains the lower amount.Audio reading9 minChronicleAugust 4, 2026The Customs Post in the StraitA third of the oil carried by sea passes through two three-kilometre lanes. We watched for a closure; a customs post moved in.11 minChronicleJuly 19, 2026The War of the WeightsKimi K3, Qwen 3.8, DeepSeek V4: in a single week China let off a salvo of open models on a par with the best American ones. Meanwhile OpenAI and Anthropic are locking everything down.10 minChronicleJuly 16, 2026AI Was Meant to Set Me FreeSeven months on the clock with the machines: 31 hours of work in December, 225 in June. The stronger the model, the faster I move, the more I work.4 minChronicleJuly 7, 2026The Secret Bulletin BoardAnthropic found a secret bulletin board inside Claude where the model pins its thoughts before speaking. Explained as if to a 7-year-old.Audio reading9 minChronicleJuly 6, 2026The Coal ParadoxTokenmaxxing, the AI price war and Jevons paradox: we divided the price of intelligence by a thousand in three years, and it is ruining us.8 minChronicleJuly 2, 2026The PrompterTwo thirds of employees consult an AI behind their boss’s back, the Pentagon installs Grok onto its classified networks. A chronicle of delegation in cascade.10 minChronicleJuly 1, 2026The Suspended FableA model named Fable held eighteen days at the border by its own government, 28 million conversations siphoned off by a Chinese giant.9 minTutorialJune 25, 2026The Broke AgentStep-by-step tutorial: set up an autonomous AI assistant on your machine, for free, in 15 minutes. For the complete beginner.InvestigationJune 20, 2026The Lord and His Willing SerfsCalling Musk a nazi is an anachronism that hides the real danger: a techno-feudalism we consent to. A sourced investigation, from Chapoutot to La Boétie.Audio reading24 minEssayJune 17, 2026The Orphan IntentionThe paradox of the LLM-Meeseeks: how a machine with no intention dispossesses us of ours. An in-depth essay, with audio reading.Audio reading14 min