Future Shock Squared
Toffler warned us about the disorientation of too much change too fast. He didn't warn us it would compound.
The Signal — April 3, 2026
AI topped the Challenger job cuts report for the first time ever. Anthropic found emotion-like computational structures inside Claude. And the Claude Code source leak spiraled into 8,000 clones and mass DMCA takedowns.
What If Companies Couldn't Use Humans as Liability Shields?
A car's crumple zone is steel that deforms on impact. In AI deployment, the crumple zone is the person who gets fired.
The Signal — April 2, 2026
Perplexity faces a class-action alleging it shared user data with Meta and Google. Alibaba ships three closed-source models in three days, walking away from the open-weight strategy that made Qwen a developer favorite.
Promise Nothing, Claim Everything
A 59-question comparison of AI terms of service found six competing companies converged on the same answer: no warranties, no liability, and your data used for training.
The Signal — April 1, 2026
Three npm supply chain incidents hit in a single 24-hour window on March 31. A compromised maintainer account pushed a remote access trojan through Axios. A separate attack on the LiteLLM AI proxy led to terabytes of corporate data walking out the door. And Anthropic accidentally shipped its own source
Bright Signals — March 31, 2026
AI-powered cherry blossom forecasts, open source AI's quiet explosion, and how to get involved on Hugging Face.
The Signal — March 31, 2026
Eli Lilly puts $2.75B behind AI-discovered drugs. A Quinnipiac poll finds most Americans use AI but few trust it. Mistral borrows $830M for European compute.
Better Models Will Absorb Half of What You Build Around AI. The Rest Will Matter More Than Ever.
The major harness engineering posts of 2026 converge on the same message: simplify. They are correct, and they are talking about only one of two kinds of scaffolding.
The Long View — March 23-29, 2026
Strange loops everywhere: the safety company that leaked its own secrets, the security stack that ate itself, and the first hard numbers on which jobs AI is actually coming for.
The Signal — March 29, 2026
Three stories today that share a thread: the cost of changing direction. OpenAI is killing a product, xAI is losing its founding team, and Meta is trying to build agents that steer themselves. Sora Is Officially Dead. The Autopsy Tells a Bigger Story. We covered Sora's shutdown on
The Weight of Remembering
How the KV cache gives every AI conversation a physical weight in silicon, and what happens when the memory runs out.