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October 15, 2026
The states come for OpenAI
Will the approach that beat Meta in New Mexico work against ChatGPT?
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October 14, 2026
X’s reverse eternal September
Why the onetime global town square now feels more like a clubhouse
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October 7, 2026
Does intelligence need a hard cap?
Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X
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September 30, 2026
OpenAI connects the Dots
With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents
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September 25, 2026
Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?
Meta has a new vision to sell, but it may be getting ahead of itself. (The VR Glasses are amazing, though)
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September 23, 2026
Muse is having a moment
Are consumer agents the future — or a mirage?
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September 18, 2026
A.I. Safety Goes Mainstream + a ‘Hard Fork’ Exit AMA
“It has been one of the fastest, most sudden shifts I’ve experienced.”
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September 18, 2026
What was Hard Fork?
Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods
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September 11, 2026
The AI safety vibe shift
Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about
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September 9, 2026
The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab
Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them
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September 4, 2026
The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra
This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.
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September 4, 2026
Google gets away with it
A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'
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September 1, 2026
The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
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August 28, 2026
Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT
Meta negotiated an unusual provision in their landmark settlement: If TikTok and YouTube also agree to penalties and changes to their products, Meta will pay more.
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August 28, 2026
How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job
Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it
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August 27, 2026
Meta settles with the states over child safety failures
Will significant changes to Facebook and Instagram be enough to beat back a global wave of bans?
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August 21, 2026
OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought
“It is the first time that we know of that a major lab has voluntarily slowed down.”
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August 21, 2026
The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI
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August 19, 2026
An LLM wiki changed how I work
And everything else I learned about productivity this year
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August 14, 2026
Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math
“The first rule of Mark Zuckerberg is never count out Mark Zuckerberg.”
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August 14, 2026
Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
Jean-Denis Greze on AI assistants, building a better corporate workspace, and avoiding "egg on face"
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August 11, 2026
Superintelligence is a dragon
What Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands about powerful AI
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August 7, 2026
The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express
A few details from the White House’s A.I. plan have leaked to the news media, but the administration has officially communicated almost nothing.
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August 7, 2026
Replit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself
Amjad Masad on the "self-driving company," why a CEO is a glorified router, and what's left for humans when agents do the work
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August 4, 2026
Notes on the third era of slop
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
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July 31, 2026
Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton’s Dishy Google Memoir + Substack’s Slop Fight
“It just seems like the temperature is rising on Silicon Valley.”
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July 30, 2026
This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on invisible AI bots, the coming fight over who sees your transcripts, and why he turns down the companies that ask for them
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July 28, 2026
A big week for AI denialism
In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications
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July 24, 2026
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
“The story that we’re talking about in this segment was science fiction until Tuesday, OK?”
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July 24, 2026
Congress proposes an AI kill switch
As more details emerge about OpenAI's cyberattack against Hugging Face, lawmakers are taking an interest. PLUS: Meta's cynical new ad + "pervert glasses" damage control
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