Somewhere in China today, a taxi drove a hundred thousand kilometres without moving an inch.

On Monday, in Hong Kong, a regulator did something no one had done before at this scale: it told the robots to carry ID.

For years, telling AI companies not to train on your writing meant learning each company's private language and hoping you had not missed a new crawler. On October 30, that absurd chore got a little less absurd: Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI said they will honor one shared line in robots.txt, the small file where a site already talks to crawlers, and the draft behind it was written by Kevin Kelley of Anthropic, who said Anthropic has already started…

Yesterday, while most of us were still talking to AI, Google quietly handed it the mouse.

For years the AI race had one speed: faster, bigger, more. This week it hit something new, and it looks, strangely enough, like a fence. Not one fence, but several, going up at the same time, in different countries, by different people, for different reasons — and each one tells you something about where this technology is actually heading.

Let me ask you something uncomfortable first. Who won the 2020 US election?

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