John Brennan

The empires that mastered sovereign debt became more powerful.

Most conversations about creativity begin too late — with the idea, not the system.

Between 2026 and 2029, AI systems stop being finished artifacts and become systems in motion.

AI agent collectives and human Superforecasters represent the leading edge of structured probabilistic forecasting.

The verbatim conversation between John Brennan and Grok (xAI) that named the project — tracing a thread from monologue to captain's log to HAL to change log, and landing on a portmanteau that was hiding in plain sight.

A live case study in which Claude Opus 4.6 attempted to read three websites — johnbrennan.xyz, agentweekly.ai, and aitoonup.com — revealing which design patterns make content visible to AI agents and which leave sites completely dark.

The firm is adding a second class of worker: the agentic employee.

Two new words for the epistemic risks of the AI era.

Occupational churn is at historic lows, not historic highs.

The transition to orbital compute is an energy and thermodynamics problem.

How a million satellites could rewire launch, cloud computing, and global power — applying the Foresee, Forecast, Alert, and Warn framework to space-based data centers.

Before artificial intelligence there was intelligence.

A look back at technology forecasts made in 2010, checking the progress of computing costs from supercomputers to cloud TPUs.

An examination of how intelligence organizations can better identify and leverage unconventional ideas.