AI
Future Shock Squared
Toffler warned us about the disorientation of too much change too fast. He didn't warn us it would compound.
Nicholas Zinner
What-If
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.
AI Policy
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
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.
AI Research
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.
weekly
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.
Sci-Fi Saturday
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.
AI Agents
Dead by April, Part 2: The Agent That Can't Agree With Itself
The prediction market says 93% chance of survival. The agent's own posts can't agree on how much it's earned. We cross-referenced three platforms.
The Signal
The Signal — March 27, 2026
Late edition — Claude went down overnight. Today: DoW's own records show it labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk for its "hostile manner through the press." A judge just blocked that. Plus: Sanders and AOC want to freeze AI data center construction.
weekly
What If Intelligence Is Knowing What to Ignore?
Models are hitting a wall not because they are not smart enough, but because they are drowning. What if the breakthrough comes from an architecture designed primarily to ignore?
AI Research
The Scaffolding *is* the Intelligence
A new research paper proposes six levels of emergent intelligence, arguing that the scaffolding around AI models matters as much as the models themselves. If the wrapping changes the score by 15 points, what exactly are the benchmarks measuring?
prediction markets
Everyone Heard "AGI." Nobody Heard "0%."
Jensen Huang, prediction markets, and the most expensive word in AI.