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Thoughts on AI, security, philosophy, and more

Saoud Khalifah
  • Introducing Orpheus: Security for AI Coding Agents
    Introducing Orpheus: Security for AI Coding Agents

    Making the non-deterministic, deterministic.

    August 4, 2026 / 3 minute read
  • The New Botnet: Powered by Your Personal AI Assistants
    The New Botnet: Powered by Your Personal AI Assistants

    The AI era is being built with an "implement first, security last" methodology.

    February 2, 2026 / 3 minute read
  • Dialectic, Philosophy and AI
    Dialectic, Philosophy and AI

    What if the future of AI lies in the past?

    May 19, 2025 / 2 minute read
  • The Generalist Paradigm
    The Generalist Paradigm

    LLMs are permutators of existing data. The advantage goes to those who know their limits.

    August 28, 2024 / 4 minute read
  • Enlightenment 2.0 - The thesis for and against AI
    Enlightenment 2.0 - The thesis for and against AI

    True AI will not arrive from scaling alone. It will be a hybrid of the grown and the built.

    February 9, 2024 / 3 minute read
  • Fakespot is acquired by Mozilla!
    Fakespot is acquired by Mozilla!

    Fakespot is joining Mozilla to bring trust and transparency to the browser itself.

    May 2, 2023 / 1 minute read
  • Web3 is not Blockchain
    Web3 is not Blockchain

    Web3 is not blockchain, NFTs or crypto. It is machine-generated content.

    August 29, 2022 / 2 minute read
  • Fakespot solves one of NLP's most complex problems
    Fakespot solves one of NLP's most complex problems

    A generative model that reads the reviews for you and writes the pros and cons.

    June 7, 2022 / 2 minute read
  • Revising the Lindy Effect
    Revising the Lindy Effect

    The Lindy Effect is missing two variables that decide what actually survives, entropy and trust.

    April 11, 2022 / 3 minute read
  • Favorite Books of 2021
    Favorite Books of 2021

    Five books that changed how I think about culture, war, consciousness, time and prosperity.

    December 29, 2021 / 8 minute read
  • 1 million active installs!
    1 million active installs!

    One million active installs, and 1.8 billion Fakespot Grades shown in 2021.

    December 20, 2021 / 1 minute read
  • The Truth Behind the Stars
    The Truth Behind the Stars

    Are those stars trustworthy?

    August 24, 2021 / 4 minute read
  • One week update after app takedown

    A week after Amazon had our iOS app pulled, here is what we learned.

    July 23, 2021 / 1 minute read
  • Dear Jeff,

    An open letter to Jeff Bezos.

    July 19, 2021 / 3 minute read
  • The Information Asymmetry platforms
    The Information Asymmetry platforms

    Platforms like Amazon have caused information asymmetry to dramatically shift for the consumer. Read more to find out why.

    July 6, 2021 / 4 minute read
  • Amazon Fake Review Data Breach
    Amazon Fake Review Data Breach

    A leak exposed millions of records tying sellers to fake reviews. It surprised no one here.

    May 10, 2021 / 3 minute read
  • Who is buying your influence in 2021?
    Who is buying your influence in 2021?

    Money can buy power, comfort and land. It can also buy your influence, and it does.

    January 4, 2021 / 2 minute read
  • Let's talk about fake reviews - part 1
    Let's talk about fake reviews - part 1

    The state of fake reviews and eCommerce fraud after 5 years of analysis at Fakespot

    October 19, 2020 / 4 minute read
  • Fakespot Highlights - AI powered summaries
    Fakespot Highlights - AI powered summaries

    Fakespot Highlights, now released on Fakespot.com, uses state of the art machine learning and NLP to summarize important points about a product

    September 29, 2020 / 2 minute read
  • Fakespot now supports eBay
    Fakespot now supports eBay

    Fakespot Guard now flags counterfeit sellers and shipping fraud on eBay.

    August 3, 2020 / 1 minute read
  • Introducing - Fakespot Guardian
    Introducing - Fakespot Guardian

    Announcing Fakespot Guardian, detecting the bad sellers behind counterfeits and scams.

    June 15, 2020 / 1 minute read
  • Reflections
    Reflections

    Marcus Aurelius led Rome through a plague that killed a third of the empire. This too shall pass.

    March 17, 2020 / 2 minute read
  • Biased, by design
    Biased, by design

    We built courts to remove human bias. Now we are building AI that inherits it.

    August 25, 2019 / 4 minute read
  • De chao, ordo
    De chao, ordo

    What Vitruvius and the Pantheon taught me about building software that lasts.

    August 4, 2019 / 4 minute read


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