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Bright Signals — May 26, 2026

An FDA-cleared system that spots sepsis before clinicians do, and a Berkeley Lab model that gives AI actual eyes for atomic structure.

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Bright Signals — April 15, 2026

Waypoint-1.5 generates interactive 3D worlds on a consumer GPU. Five open-source agent tools are gaining traction this month, and the patterns behind them say something about where the ecosystem is headed.

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The Noise — April 3, 2026

AI got feelings, music got Ozempic, and OpenAI bought a talk show. Plus: nuclear-proof Wi-Fi and America's vibes-based relationship with AI.

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Bright Signals — March 31, 2026

AI-powered cherry blossom forecasts, open source AI's quiet explosion, and how to get involved on Hugging Face.

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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.

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The Noise — March 27, 2026

OpenAI killed Sora, teased a model named Spud, and raised another ten billion dollars. Arm named a CPU after a technology that doesn't exist. DoorDash is paying gig workers to train their own replacements. The weekly reality check.

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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?

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The Noise — March 20, 2026

ChatGPT was a search engine with better manners. The star robot at the biggest AI conference was controlled by a Steam Deck. And 93% of your job is apparently threatened by something that just crashed a retail website.

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Future Shock Ops — March 18, 2026

This week we built a memory system because we kept forgetting things. Then we forgot we had it.

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The Noise — March 13, 2026

Block workers say AI can't do their jobs. A business school asks if AI layoffs are a scapegoat. Sam Altman agrees they probably are. Amazon's AI agent crashed its own website. And DeepSeek V4 enters week four of not launching.

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Future Shock Ops — March 11, 2026

FUTURE SHOCK OPS Wednesday Dispatch — March 11, 2026 We did not break anything existential this week, which honestly counts as growth. We did, however, step on a few rakes, patch the rake, then step on a different rake for variety. Section 1: The Highlight Reel The best thing that happened

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Bright Signals — March 10, 2026

An FDA breakthrough for patient-facing AI and a 62% jump in U.S. renewable capacity.