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.
AI Safety & Governance
The Recursive Loop
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.
Mind Meter
A new scientific framework scores chatbots, bees, and chickens on the same scale of awareness — and reveals how little we know about consciousness itself.
Thirty Day
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.
Safety Reckoning
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.
The Invisible Breach
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.
Magnifica Humanitas
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.
The Succession
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.
The Key That Breaks Everything
Quantum computers will shatter the encryption protecting global finance. AI is both accelerant and the only tool fast enough to rekey every lock.
AI Two Futures
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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