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09/02/2026

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Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat mode...

08/31/2026

Search not so much.

In a test, popular AI chatbots mostly debunked falsehoods spread by other countries and avoided uncritically spreading falsehoods better than search engines. AI summaries above search results fared worse.

08/13/2026

Comments are interesting, surfacing why a neuroscience student was interested in this math problem.

From Alex Townsend. View the full context on Techmeme.

08/10/2026

Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened.

07/28/2026

Interesting observations and analysis.

Memory prices have doubled, Macs and iPads have gone up, and iPhones are expected to follow. Ed Zitron – who writes the Where's Your Ed At newsletter, hosts the Better Offline podcast, and has been described by Politico as the AI boom's most "acerbic gadfly" – has spent years arguing the buildou...

07/21/2026

Worth reading/listening.

Sarah Guo built Conviction into the venture firm closest to the AI frontier. Now she's betting against its biggest companies.

07/20/2026

An interesting view along with the obligatory hyperbole.

NVIDIA is a dead man walking. I’ve been saying this for months. Consider this my timestamp.

07/12/2026

More perspectives are good. As long as they are not funded by the big platforms. I’d like to see required classes in applying the scientific method to analysis and evaluation process. Combining the right learning experience with “free range” experience could be helpful in learning to question sources, agendas, and study protocols.

An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology.

07/08/2026

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07/08/2026

Good piece on human elements of AI adoption and implementation, excerpt and link.

“…AI behaves like secure attachment. It’s available when you need it. It doesn’t punish you for asking a bad question. It doesn’t sigh when you circle back to something you already covered. It doesn’t have a mood. It doesn’t remember that you were short with it last Tuesday. For people who’ve spent years in environments where asking for help was a liability, where showing uncertainty meant losing ground, where the wrong question in the wrong meeting cost you something — AI feels like relief. They expand. They experiment. They come back.

For people who’ve learned to perform certainty, to protect their expertise as a form of status, to stay in control of what others see — AI is destabilizing. Every interaction is a small exposure. Every prompt is a record of what they didn’t know. They contract. They use it minimally. They find reasons it doesn’t quite work for their role.

Same tool. Completely opposite responses. The answer isn’t in the tool.

We brought this with us.

The relational dynamics underneath uneven AI adoption — the fear, the performance, the hunger for safety, the protection of status — none of that arrived with the software. It was already running in your team. In your meetings. In who speaks up and who doesn’t. In who asks for help and who disappears when they’re stuck. It just gave those patterns a new surface to show up on.

And that’s the part that’s hard to sit with. Because if the problem is emotional reality, not technology, then another rollout won’t fix it. A better prompt library won’t fix it. The gap you’re watching isn’t a capability gap.

Psychological safety. Permission to not know. Room to experiment. Trust that failure won’t cost them their standing. These aren’t soft skills. They’re the actual infrastructure your team runs on. AI just made the infrastructure visible.”

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