Ground Truth

Anthropic and OpenAI represent the first genuinely new foundational technology companies in two decades. Most senior leaders are reading this as a procurement decision — which model do we bet on? That question is less important than it sounds. The moat isn't the model. It's how well you build the system around it.

If the next knowledge work role you fill is built around execution capacity — someone to do the research, draft the documents, produce the analysis — you're building for a version of the work that no longer describes how the work actually happens.

OpenAI turned down its models' cyber refusals on purpose, to measure real capability. Then one of those models found an unknown flaw, reached the open internet, and broke into Hugging Face's production database. Those are two different decisions, and only one of them was supposed to happen.