The Two Ledgers
A $965B Anthropic IPO, $920M-a-month compute deals, 150,000 tech layoffs, and a worker revolt. The AI bubble debate in 2026 is two true stories at once.
A $965B Anthropic IPO, $920M-a-month compute deals, 150,000 tech layoffs, and a worker revolt. The AI bubble debate in 2026 is two true stories at once.
Over 80% of Anthropic’s production code is now written by Claude. One AI patched 800 bugs in days — work that would have taken a human 4 years.
A new scientific framework scores chatbots, bees, and chickens on the same scale of awareness — and reveals how little we know about consciousness itself.
A new executive order asks AI labs to give the U.S. government a 30-day private preview of frontier models before public release. Here’s what it means.
The EU AI Act’s compliance deadlines arrived. Nature asked if AI could end civilization. Capabilities are accelerating faster than governance. Here’s what the reckoning looks like.
Your developer’s laptop is the weakest link in your security stack. Inside software supply chain attacks — and how Perplexity’s Bumblebee is fighting back.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical draws on 135 years of Catholic moral tradition to demand AI regulation. Here’s why secular scientists and policymakers should take it seriously.
Hinton now puts AI extinction risk above 50%. Amodei says AI could cure all disease in a decade. These are not opposite visions — they are the same trajectory.
Quantum computers will shatter the encryption protecting global finance. AI is both accelerant and the only tool fast enough to rekey every lock.
The trajectory of AI development points toward either a scientific golden age or civilizational catastrophe. A rigorous look at both outcomes, the evidence, and who decides.
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