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Murderbots and Mass Surveillance
When the Pentagon blacklists an AI company for having safety guardrails, science fiction stops being fiction. Martha Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Alastair Reynolds saw this coming.
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The Signal — February 28, 2026
THE SIGNAL Future Shock Daily — February 28, 2026 The Defense Production Act got invoked against an AI company yesterday. That sentence alone tells you where things are headed. The Pentagon Invokes a Korean War Law Against Anthropic The Department of Defense invoked the Defense Production Act — a 1950 law originally
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The Noise — February 27, 2026
This week: a research preview caused a trillion-dollar panic, the robots turned out to have people inside them, and retired AI started blogging.
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The Signal — February 26, 2026
Alibaba open-sources models that match GPT-5 mini. Karpathy says programming is unrecognizable. Perplexity launches a 19-model orchestration platform.
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What If — February 26, 2026
WHAT IF: What if Google had renewed Project Maven in 2018? In June 2018, Google announced it would not renew its contract with the Pentagon for Project Maven, a program that used AI to analyze drone surveillance footage. Around 4,000 Google employees had signed a petition opposing the work,
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Future Shock Ops — February 25, 2026
This edition was supposed to auto-publish at 10 AM. It didn't. The newsletter about operational bloopers had an operational blooper.
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The Signal — February 25, 2026
The SaaS sector just had its worst stretch in decades, and AI agents are getting the blame. Black February: AI Agents Wipe $1 Trillion From the SaaS Sector The software industry lost more than $1 trillion in market capitalization in 2026 so far, in what analysts and traders are calling
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Bright Signals — February 24, 2026
Three foundations just pooled $60 million to answer a question most AI companies skip: does any of this actually work where it's needed most? Meanwhile, state legislatures are moving faster on AI regulation than Congress ever has. $60 Million to Test AI Health Tools Where They Matter Most
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The Ban-Build Cycle: Enterprise vs. Agentic AI
How companies are scrambling to govern AI agents — and why the pattern looks exactly like every technology panic before it.
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The Signal — February 24, 2026
Anthropic just published the most detailed public accounting yet of industrial-scale model theft by Chinese AI labs. The rest of the day's news barely registered by comparison. Anthropic Catches DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Stealing Claude's Brain Anthropic identified three Chinese AI labs running coordinated distillation campaigns
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Cyberpsychosis Is Real — No Implants Required
There's a string of side missions in Cyberpunk 2077 that most players remember long after the main story fades. Your fixer, Regina Jones, keeps calling with the same basic setup: someone in Night City went too far with the cyberware and snapped. Your job is to go deal
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The Signal — February 23, 2026
THE SIGNAL Future Shock Daily — February 23, 2026 The most interesting AI story this weekend wasn't about what a model can say. It was about what 16 of them can build. The Claude C Compiler: What 16 Parallel Agents Built in a Weekend Anthropic turned 16 Claude agents