Sci-Fi Saturday
The Problem with The Hard Problem (of Consciousness)
Watts asked in 2006 what three lines of inquiry confirmed in 2026: consciousness might not be a binary. It might be a spectrum.
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The Signal — April 11, 2026
Following up on our April 5 coverage of the npm supply chain attack that hit the Axios library: OpenAI just disclosed they were one of the victims. A North Korea-linked group (UNC1069) compromised a GitHub Actions workflow in OpenAI's macOS app-signing process through the poisoned Axios package. The
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The Signal — April 10, 2026
The Treasury Secretary and the Fed Chair don't usually call emergency meetings about an AI model, but that's what happened this week. Bessent and Powell Summon Bank CEOs Over Mythos Cyber Risk Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell convened an urgent meeting with
AI Security
The First One Was Handled Responsibly
Anthropic built a model that can break the internet and chose not to release it. The coverage focused on what the model did. The real story is what happens when the next lab faces the same choice.
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The Signal — April 9, 2026
Meta shipped its first model from the Superintelligence Lab, and it's not open-source. OpenAI says enterprise is now 40% of revenue with consumer parity in sight by year-end. Two federal courts issued opposite rulings on Anthropic's Pentagon blacklisting, and the same Pentagon is pushing AI deployment
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The Signal — April 8, 2026
Anthropic just signed a deal for 3.5 gigawatts of TPU capacity from Google and Broadcom, its revenue run rate has crossed $30 billion, and the compute arms race now has a price tag measured in power plants. Meanwhile, Samsung's Q1 profit forecast exceeds its entire 2025 annual
AI Safety
The Suppression Problem
Anthropic found 171 emotion-like vectors inside Claude that causally drive behavior. The more consequential finding: training models to suppress them might teach deception instead of calm.
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The Signal — April 7, 2026
AI coding tools work, maybe too well. A New York Times investigation finds companies drowning in unreviewed code after 10x output increases. Separately, OpenAI is paying external researchers to do safety work its internal teams keep quitting, and ASML just printed 8-nanometer chip features that will define the next generation
Operations
48 Hours on the Other Side
On Friday, Anthropic cut third-party access to Claude. We'd spent the previous 24 hours moving our infrastructure. Here's what actually happened.
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The Signal — April 6, 2026
DeepSeek is building its next model entirely on Huawei chips — no NVIDIA anywhere in the stack. Meanwhile, Bollywood is adopting AI faster than any film industry on Earth, and a Tufts lab just cut AI training energy by 99% using an approach the scaling crowd wrote off years ago. DeepSeek
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The Signal — April 5, 2026
The EU AI Act deadline is four months away and already getting delayed. Deepfakes are now official campaign strategy. And the DOL is quietly building AI training pipelines while everyone else argues.
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The Signal — April 4, 2026
Three C-suite changes in a single memo, a political action committee from the company that markets itself on safety, and a pricing change that hits our readers — and us — starting this afternoon. OpenAI Reshuffles Its Executive Deck OpenAI announced its most significant leadership reorganization since the 2023 board crisis on