Pieces filed under Notes in the Black Box Notes archive.https://blackboxnotes.com/en-ushttps://blackboxnotes.com/articles/12-the-ten-hardest-auditability-problems-in-agentic-ai/https://blackboxnotes.com/articles/12-the-ten-hardest-auditability-problems-in-agentic-ai/A working list of the genuinely unsolved technical and institutional problems in agentic-system audit. Not a wish list. The actual hard ones, with notes on why each remains unresolved and what would constitute progress.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTNoteshard-problemsresearchauditAnnika Vogelhttps://blackboxnotes.com/articles/09-black-box-ai-vs-agentic-os-a-comparative-framing/https://blackboxnotes.com/articles/09-black-box-ai-vs-agentic-os-a-comparative-framing/Two of the most-searched phrases in the AI category, both of them imprecise, frequently confused. A note on what each actually means in 2026, why they are sometimes mistaken for each other, and how the comparison illuminates the auditability question that runs through both.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTNotesdefinitioncomparisonagentic-osTomás Esquivelhttps://blackboxnotes.com/articles/08-why-some-founders-are-choosing-transparency-as-a-moat/https://blackboxnotes.com/articles/08-why-some-founders-are-choosing-transparency-as-a-moat/An unusual strategic position is emerging in the agentic category: small operators using auditability not as a regulatory tax but as a competitive lever. We look at the structural reasons it works and why it remains rare.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTNotesstrategytransparencymoatsAnnika Vogelhttps://blackboxnotes.com/articles/07-open-vs-closed-in-2026/https://blackboxnotes.com/articles/07-open-vs-closed-in-2026/The open-versus-closed debate has been treated, for the last several years, as a politics question. By 2026 it is a procurement question. A note on what each side has done well, what each side has done badly, and what the actual decision is when the buyer is not a member of either tribe.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTNotesopen-sourceclosed-sourceprocurementAnnika Vogelhttps://blackboxnotes.com/articles/14-nyt-openai-twenty-million-logs-discovery/https://blackboxnotes.com/articles/14-nyt-openai-twenty-million-logs-discovery/On January 5, 2026, Judge Sidney Stein affirmed a magistrate's order compelling OpenAI to produce twenty million anonymised ChatGPT logs into the New York Times's discovery in the Southern District of New York. Summary judgment is set for April 2026. A working note on what the ruling did, on what twenty million logs can and cannot reveal in litigation, and on the novel discovery-power implications for the entire generative AI category.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTNoteslitigationdiscoveryOpenAINYTTomás Esquivelhttps://blackboxnotes.com/articles/13-bartz-anthropic-settlement-going-forward/https://blackboxnotes.com/articles/13-bartz-anthropic-settlement-going-forward/The largest publicly reported recovery in US copyright history settles a narrow legal question and opens a wider operational one. A working note on the Bartz ruling, the settlement structure, the unresolved fair-use line, and the precedent every AI lab is now operating under whether it admits to or not.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTNotescopyrightlitigationtraining-dataAnthropicAnnika Vogelhttps://blackboxnotes.com/articles/02-why-auditability-is-the-new-differentiator/https://blackboxnotes.com/articles/02-why-auditability-is-the-new-differentiator/For most of the AI cycle, the differentiator was capability. By 2026, in the agentic-system category specifically, it has shifted. The firms winning enterprise procurement reviews are the ones whose stacks can be read. A note on why, and on which operators are taking the position seriously.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTNotesprocurementdifferentiationauditabilityAnnika Vogel