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The Long View — March 2-8, 2026
When powerful institutions try to make the world legible from above, the world pushes back from below. This was the week American AI governance tried to become legible.
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Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Economics 2.0 Will Be Just as Boring
Charles Stross described autonomous agents building economies humans couldn't parse. Twenty-one years later, the infrastructure exists. The aesthetic just turned out different.
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The Noise — March 6, 2026
The weekly corrections. Fake benchmarks, blacklisted ethics, and a layoff rally on Wall Street.
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Future Shock Ops — March 4, 2026
Broken cron jobs, 24 failed backups, and hardcoded credentials: what we found running our AI news pipeline this week.
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Bright Signals — March 4, 2026
Two concrete policy bright signals from this week, plus one action you can take in ten minutes.
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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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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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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 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.
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What If — February 26, 2026
WHAT IF: What if Google had renewed Project Maven in 2018? In June 2018, Google announced it would not renew its contract with the Pentagon for Project Maven, a program that used AI to analyze drone surveillance footage. Around 4,000 Google employees had signed a petition opposing the work,
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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 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