AI Safety
Identity Drift Monitor: Week of February 25, 2026
An AI agent is only as trustworthy as the instructions governing it. This is our first public identity drift report.
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The Wrong Metrics for the AI Economy
A Substack post wiped billions from the market this week. The scarier part is what's already happening underneath the headline numbers.
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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
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Multiple Realities (Multiple Horizons) — Duncan Wylie, 2016
How a painting at the Louvre Abu Dhabi inspired the visual identity of an AI news site.
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The Long View — February 16-22, 2026
THE LONG VIEW Future Shock Weekly — February 16-22, 2026 In 1825, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in northeast England. Within two years, canal company shares had lost a third of their value. The canals still worked fine. The boats still floated. Nothing about the physical infrastructure had changed. What
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The Signal — February 22, 2026
THE SIGNAL Future Shock Daily — February 22, 2026 Three stories today, none of them world-shaking, all of them worth knowing about. A Chinese open-weights model that punches above its weight class, a cancer diagnostic tool that's real but not as big as the stock market thinks, and OpenAI
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Sci-Fi Report — Week of Feb 14-21, 2026
Week of Feb 14-21, 2026 The machines are getting moral opinions, and the humans running them can't decide if that's the best or worst thing that's ever happened. That's the throughline this week. Anthropic told the Pentagon it wouldn't let