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Anthropic is somehow both too dangerous to allow and essential to national security
The White House finally found an AI regulation it likes: requiring AI companies to sell it killer robots
 • Kelsey Piper
Did feminization kill progress?
No.
 • Jerusalem Demsas
We may miss the sweatshops
Will the global poor be left out of fully automated gay luxury space communism?
 • Matthew Yglesias
When "technically true" becomes "actually misleading"
Worst Take of the Week: Tyler Austin Harper, please download Claude Code
 • Kelsey Piper
Moltbook shows we won't pull the plug
The YOLO human spirit meets the age of AI
 • Kelsey Piper
Anthropic probably shouldn't be doing this, but they're doing it well
Claude's constitution comes up with an ethical framework to balance being useful, safe, and treating users like adults
 • Kelsey Piper
We absolutely do know that Waymos are safer than human drivers
What Bloomberg got very wrong about self-driving cars
 • Kelsey Piper
I can't stop yelling at Claude Code
Vibecoding is like having a genius at your beck and call and also yelling at your printer
 • Kelsey Piper
AI predictions for 2026: The flood is coming
The digital world will be transformed. Your day-to-day life will be basically the same.
 • Kelsey Piper
Don't get fancy with your labor market fixes for AI
AI could be unpredictable. Our labor market response to it shouldn't be.
 • Martha Gimbel
Looking back at a year of AI cope and progress
AI isn’t going away or even slowing down. Now what?
 • Kelsey Piper
The answer to bad tech is better tech
A kinda, sorta review of life with a dumbphone
 • Jerusalem Demsas
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