Archive | Project Flux

Claude Fable 5.1: the price cut is real, the savings are conditional

Sep 7, 2026

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4 min read

Claude Fable 5.1: the price cut is real, the savings are conditional

Cheaper cache reads and fewer safety blocks, with one catch buried in the token counts

Deeptaketuu Chaatterjee

Blog

Caterpillar's $100M answer to autonomy: retrain the operator

Sep 7, 2026

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5 min read

Caterpillar's $100M answer to autonomy: retrain the operator

The world's biggest equipment maker is betting operators' jobs change rather than disappear, and is funding the pipeline.

Yoshi Soornack

Robotics

Sep 7, 2026

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6 min read

GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI ships a model it rates Critical for cyber risk

It finds zero-days unaided and works software for 40 minutes; even OpenAI admits it is getting harder to monitor.

Safety

Sep 2, 2026

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2 min read

AI Can Clear the Court Backlog. A Former Justice Secretary Says It Must Never Pass Judgment.

Sir Robert Buckland KC on deepfakes in the dock, biased models, and the one thing in law that has to stay human.

Blog

Sep 1, 2026

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6 min read

OpenAI + Anthropic Are Pushing Agents Behind Your Logins. 3 Questions Every Project Team Must Answer.

Browser access, a robot-tax argument, collective cyber defence, a $30T market claim, and 74% AI use in architecture all point to the same issue: authority has become the real AI question.

Newsletter

Mar 16, 2026

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7 min read

The Agent Era: 20 Stories Reshaping How Work Gets Done

20 stories defining the transformation in the AI-led world of automation

Curated Links

James Garner

Mar 15, 2026

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8 min read

The £500 Million Gamble: Can the UK’s Sovereign AI Fund Secure Its Place in the Global Race?

Government backing aims to anchor startups in the burgeoning 'LondonMaxxing' ecosystem.

Blog

Yoshi Soornack

Mar 15, 2026

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7 min read

Microsoft Copilot Cowork and Claude Redefine Enterprise AI Collaboration

New multi-step workflows and interactive visuals transform the Microsoft 365 ecosystem

Blog

James Garner

Mar 15, 2026

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7 min read

AI Agent Breaches McKinsey’s Lilli Chatbot in Under Two Hours

Red-team attack exposes 46 million chat logs and critical vulnerabilities in enterprise AI

Blog

James Garner

Mar 15, 2026

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7 min read

Palantir’s Maven Smart System Revolutionises Pentagon Decision-Making

The AI platform is collapsing the Department of Defence's execution chain.

Blog

Yoshi Soornack

Mar 14, 2026

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7 min read

This Week on Project Flux: From AI Dabbler to Doer — and the Tech That Predicts Human Behaviour

Paul Carney shares how to actually master AI, while Kat Wendelstadt reveals how Electric Twin is turning market research on its head.

Podcast

James Garner, +1

Mar 14, 2026

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9 min read

Perplexity’s ‘Computer’ Agent Could Make Your $225K Marketing Stack Obsolete

Multi-model orchestration shifts AI from answering questions to executing months-long workflows

Agents

James Garner

Mar 10, 2026

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6 min read

The Disruption is Here: 50% of Entry-Level Roles at Risk

What Anthropic's latest research means for project delivery professionals

Construction

Yoshi Soornack, +1

Mar 9, 2026

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7 min read

This Week on the Project Flux Podcast: Women in AI & the Future of Quantity Surveying

Cydnie Thompson on the confidence gap in tech, plus Kudirat Ayinla and Abdullahi Saka on what AI really means for QS professionals in 2026.

Podcast

James Garner, +1

Claude Fable 5.1: the price cut is real, the savings are conditional

Caterpillar's $100M answer to autonomy: retrain the operator

GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI ships a model it rates Critical for cyber risk

AI Can Clear the Court Backlog. A Former Justice Secretary Says It Must Never Pass Judgment.

OpenAI + Anthropic Are Pushing Agents Behind Your Logins. 3 Questions Every Project Team Must Answer.

The Agent Era: 20 Stories Reshaping How Work Gets Done

The £500 Million Gamble: Can the UK’s Sovereign AI Fund Secure Its Place in the Global Race?

Microsoft Copilot Cowork and Claude Redefine Enterprise AI Collaboration

AI Agent Breaches McKinsey’s Lilli Chatbot in Under Two Hours

Palantir’s Maven Smart System Revolutionises Pentagon Decision-Making

This Week on Project Flux: From AI Dabbler to Doer — and the Tech That Predicts Human Behaviour

Perplexity’s ‘Computer’ Agent Could Make Your $225K Marketing Stack Obsolete

The Disruption is Here: 50% of Entry-Level Roles at Risk

This Week on the Project Flux Podcast: Women in AI & the Future of Quantity Surveying

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