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Asymmetry

2026-10-09T18:03:10Z

Scott Galloway: “The key national security metric isn’t the debt, it’s the fiscal gap — how much we need to raise taxes and/or cut spending every year, as a share of GDP, so the debt stops outpacing the economy and interest payments stop eating a growing share of the budget.”

Have the frontier labs mixed up AI safety and security?

2026-10-07T13:54:22Z

Martin Alderson: “Note the phrasing - ‘we have largely solved the threat of prompt injection in practice’. Now look at the benchmark attached to that very tweet - it’s nowhere near solved. The Opus 5 score (the best score) - fails to a prompt injection attack 2% of the time with 15 attempts.”

FAA rolls out air traffic AI tool in Washington region

2026-09-21T22:33:39Z

Ryan Karlin, The Hill: “Bryan Bedford, administrator of the FAA, clarified that SMART will not be used by controllers whose job it is to prevent collisions and maintain safety — 15,000 of whom operate at airports across the country.”

Losing control of AI is actually the plan

2026-09-18T10:55:16Z

Kelsey Piper: “AI companies are not, primarily, trying to automate your job — they are trying to automate their own jobs.”

Two hackers got 5.5 years. OpenAI's agents got a press statement.

2026-09-15T17:39:31Z

Ryan Williams: “That is the actual damage. Not the 500 gems. The precedent that unbounded agent deployment is a communications problem rather than a legal one.”

Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.

2026-09-14T13:06:12Z

Laurie Voss: “The other thing that’s changed since 2022 is that the cost of writing software collapsed, and I think that’s the first time in thirty years a variable in this equation has actually moved rather than just sped up.”

There’s A New Space Telescope On Its Way To Help Answer The Biggest Question In The Universe

2026-09-02T14:33:16Z

Barry Petchesky, Defector: “This time next year, we might be viewing some other star’s Pale Blue Dot.”

Is Anthropic Making Money? How Much Money?

2026-08-18T16:44:13Z

Brad DeLong: “And, I was confident, selling your soul to SEO and charging for the eyeballs your second-rate search results trapped into repeated casts of the yarrow sticks would ultimately be self-defeating. … And, I was confident, selling your soul to clickbait-rage and charging for the eyeballs your outrage-bait feeds had trapped into doomscrolling would ultimately be self-defeating. Guess what? Selling your soul to SEO was not self-defeating. Neither was becoming the master necromancer of rage-bait doomscrolling. Am I missing something similar here and now?”

Collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation would lead to substantial oceanic carbon release and additional global warming

2026-08-17T16:26:07Z

D. Nian, M. Willeit, N. Wunderling, A. Ganopolski & J. Rockström: “Arctic temperatures cool by ~ 7 °C (60 °N–90 °N), while Antarctic temperatures warm by ~ 6 °C (60 °S–90 °S).”

Astronomers discover a new kind of cosmic object – a black hole ‘star’

2026-08-14T13:38:05Z

Ian Sample, The Guardian: “They may be the nascent, swaddled phase that marks the beginning of almost every supermassive black hole’s journey’”