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Don't misread what the 70% means: Kokotajlo's interview, taken as a practical problem for people who use AI

Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo appeared on The Diary of a CEO and said there is a 70% chance things go horribly wrong. That figure is not the same as human extinction. Here is what it actually refers to, what AI 2027 and AI 2040 Plan A each claim, from primary sources, and what practically remains for companies that use AI.

2026-08-29Ryuta Hamamoto

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What Alayasiki actually is: reading Japan's domestic AI defense system through standards, data sovereignty and switch-off risk

On August 27, 2026, Skygate Technologies announced Alayasiki, a domestically developed AI defense system for Japan. It claims conformance with US MIL-STD and NATO APP/STANAG/ADatP, and operation in air-gapped environments. Here is what the system does, why standards conformance and data sovereignty are argued together, and what "switch-off risk" means — drawn from the press release and Japanese government materials.

2026-08-29Ryuta Hamamoto

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What the CIA Director's Moscow Trip Actually Signals

On 25 August 2026 the CIA director flew to Moscow unannounced. The reported purpose was a warning not to attack NATO. But what US intelligence is said to be worried about is not conventional war, and that distinction changes what companies should do about it.

2026-08-27Ryuta Hamamoto

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512 Days of Hormuz Transit Data | What a 91.6% Drop Looks Like

I aggregated 512 days of daily transit counts for the Strait of Hormuz. Before the closure, 84.8 vessels a day; after, 7.1. The collapse took three days. And the partial recovery that appeared in June had disappeared again by August.

2026-08-27Ryuta Hamamoto

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Every Unmanned Systems Contract Japan's Coast Guard Signed | ¥410m, Counted

I pulled every unmanned aircraft and unmanned vessel contract the Japan Coast Guard awarded between FY2023 and FY2026 from the bid result PDFs. Nine contracts, ¥410.8 million. The range between largest and smallest is 126x, and where one bidder showed up, the award ratio pinned to the ceiling.

2026-08-27Ryuta Hamamoto

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Where Export Control Violations Actually Get Caught | Six Years of METI Data

Japan's METI publishes an annual analysis of export control violations, one PDF per year, with nobody stitching them together. I pulled all six and counted. The share found by customs audits roughly tripled in three years, and the leading cause was not what I expected.

2026-08-27Ryuta Hamamoto

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I read all 236 companies in YC Summer 2026: AI agents became the customer, and two-person teams are building factories

I went through all 236 companies in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch using the public directory data. Median team size is two people, industrials make up 23%, and a cluster of companies sells to AI agents rather than to humans. Here is what is happening and what it suggests for anyone building something, with links to every company.

2026-08-26Ryuta Hamamoto

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Japan's Growth Strategy 2026 | 17 Sectors, 62 Technologies, ¥370 Trillion

Japan's Cabinet approved the Growth Strategy on 21 July 2026. I read all 399 pages of the official documents: the full list of 17 strategic sectors and 62 major products and technologies, how to read the ¥370 trillion figure correctly, and the budget rules that quietly changed.

2026-08-25Ryuta Hamamoto

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How Japan's Coast Guard Got an Autonomous Boat | Reading the Procurement Record

Yanmar has automated a vessel from departure through offshore navigation to docking, a first in Japan, and is testing it on a Japan Coast Guard unmanned boat. I traced what that boat is for, the two contracts that produced it, and the technology underneath, using the Coast Guard's own disclosure records.

2026-08-25Ryuta Hamamoto

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BIS Just Stopped Scrap Batteries at the Border | Export Control Turns from Blocking Leakage to Hoarding Resources

On 6 August 2026 BIS ordered sellers of lithium-ion black mass and tungsten waste and scrap to allocate 100% of monthly sales to U.S. persons. The authority is not the EAR but the Defense Production Act. Here is what it means that export control is now being used to keep resources at home.

2026-08-24Ryuta Hamamoto

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Japan's Air Force Is Becoming an Aerospace Force | Reading the 2026 Defense Reorganization

Japan's amended Defense Ministry Establishment Act passed in June 2026. The Air Self-Defense Force will be renamed the Aerospace Self-Defense Force, its first name change in 72 years. What was decided, why space, and what Japan's own defense ministry documents say about how far behind the country is.

2026-08-24Ryuta Hamamoto

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From Blacklist Screening to Proof of Origin | What Pax Silica and the Silicon Highway Change

Pax Silica grew to 24 signatories at its second summit in June 2026. The Silicon Highway, backed by up to $50 million, would move trusted cargo faster using cryptographic verification and pre-approval. Export control is shifting from screening names, to tracing ownership, to proving provenance.

2026-08-24Ryuta Hamamoto