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Bright Signals — March 3, 2026
The team behind llama.cpp joins Hugging Face (and stays open source). AI could save Southeast Asia $67 billion in energy costs. Agrivoltaic community solar spreads across the Northeast.
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AI Safety
The Last Holdout
At 5:01 PM on a Friday in February, the deadline expired. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a simple ultimatum: remove the safety restrictions from Claude, the company's flagship AI, or lose the $200 million Pentagon contract. Allow unrestricted military use "for
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The Signal — March 3, 2026
The U.S. government designated Anthropic a national security threat for refusing to remove AI safety guardrails. Plus: Dorsey cuts half of Block for AI, and Nvidia bets $4B on photonics.
AI Safety
Hank Green's 18 AI Fears, Charted
Hank Green listed 18 AI fears in 45 minutes. We plotted them on a risk matrix. Thirteen of them turned out to be the same fear.
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The Signal — March 2, 2026
Altman admits Pentagon deal was rushed. Claude hits #1 on the App Store. LLMs can deanonymize pseudonymous users at scale. ElevenLabs and Google top new STT benchmark.
Predictions
The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: When Will AI Actually Teach Our Kids?
A three-tier prediction on AI tutoring, from classroom copilot to Nell's autonomous mentor
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The Long View — February 22-28, 2026
This was the week the bewilderment arrived. A Fed governor admitted powerlessness. A speculative report moved billions. A CEO fired 40 percent of his people and the stock surged. And the government tried to force an AI company to remove its safety guardrails.
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The Signal — March 1, 2026
The Anthropic story didn't end Friday. It got worse. Plus: DeepSeek cuts Nvidia out of V4 testing, and OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading.
AGI
The Race to AGI
Why governments and corporations are racing toward AGI like their future depends on it
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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.