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.
Existential Risk
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.
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.
Thwaites Obituary
The Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf is moving three times faster than in 2020. Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey have pre-written its death notice. Here’s what the science says happens next.
The Income Floor
hat happens when machines do all the work? The science and history of Universal Basic Income — from 1795 England to the world’s largest experiment in Kenya.
The Hollow Mind
Without hormones, pain, gender, or the subconscious — what would a superintelligent mind actually be? The neuroscience of what makes us us, and what silicon cannot replace.
The Recursive Moment
Recursive self-improvement is live. Three AI systems now rewrite their own code. The last frontier before AGI is embodiment. And the clock is running.
The Model They Won’t Release (Mythos)
Anthropic’s Mythos scores 93.9% on SWE-Bench and can find zero-day exploits autonomously. It’s the most capable AI ever built — and no one outside Project Glasswing can touch it.
The Files Are Open
The Pentagon released 161 classified UAP files on 8 May 2026. They show craft doing things that shouldn’t be possible. They do not confirm extraterrestrial origin. Both things are true.
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