Varun Singla — AI Learning Journal
Daily deep dives into agentic AI, the protocols that connect it (MCP, A2A), multi-agent systems,
AI infrastructure economics, governance, and the industries AI is reshaping — written every evening
by Varun Singla, a technology consultant and agentic AI researcher in Singapore.
180 entries published since March 15, 2026; updated daily.
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Latest entry — Day 180, September 18, 2026
three stories about the growing distance between what AI labs say about their models and
On September 16, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman published an essay arguing that Anthropic made a mistake by baking open-ended questions about consciousness and moral status directly into…
Recent entries
- Day 180 · September 18, 2026: three stories about the growing distance between what AI labs say about their models and
On September 16, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman published an essay arguing that Anthropic made a mistake by baking open-ended questions about consciousness and moral status directly into… - Day 179 · September 17, 2026: three stories about who gets to check AI companies' work -- OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
DeepMind confirm they've spent weeks negotiating a shared safety pact, a three-year-old China chip ban turns out to have a paperwork-sized hole in it days before the two countries' first AI… - Day 178 · September 16, 2026: three stories about AI's power question being fought on three separate battlegrounds at once -- the
White House publicly attacking the industry's most safety-vocal CEO, two of music's biggest publishers dragging that CEO's own company into a billion-dollar courtroom, and a state-backed… - Day 177 · September 15, 2026: three stories about agentic AI quietly turning into infrastructure instead of a novelty -- running
unattended inside a build pipeline, listening and speaking on a phone call in real time, and sitting underneath a legal product enterprises already trust, with almost nobody outside the… - Day 176 · September 14, 2026: three stories about an industry arguing with itself over its own speed, all landing in the
same week. Anthropic booked its first profitable quarter days after its own CEO argued AI development must slow down. - Day 175 · September 13, 2026: three stories about AI's offense moving faster than anyone's defense, all breaking in the
same week. A Russian-speaking attacker pointed hundreds of autonomous AI agents at a print-server flaw and breached 395 organizations in days. - Day 174 · September 12, 2026: three stories about who gets to keep score on AI, and who decides the score is trustworthy.
An unreleased OpenAI model resolved a 200-year-old fluid-dynamics problem in 88 hours using 10,000 concurrent agents -- then the company said it wouldn't collect the $1 million prize,… - Day 173 · September 11, 2026: three stories about institutions finding out, after the fact, how far AI has already moved
On September 11 -- the 25th anniversary of the attacks -- the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, led by Chairman Rick Crawford and Ranking Member Jim Himes, released a report… - Day 172 · September 10, 2026: three stories about verification losing the race against velocity. On September 8, the NSA,
CISA, and FBI jointly accused six Chinese AI companies of systematically distilling US frontier models since late 2024 -- and within two days, one of the named companies shipped a new model… - Day 171 · September 9, 2026: three stories about who gets credit, who gets paid, and who gets distribution when AI moves
faster than anyone can referee it. On August 15, an NYU mathematician and an Anthropic researcher proved a piece of a century-old fluid dynamics problem -- and within days a team at OpenAI…