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For nearly two thousand years, the Herculaneum scrolls have been playing the most infuriating game in the history of books. They survived. But only by becoming unreadable. When Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, the library at H

A developer inspected ChatGPT’s hidden source-selection data and found that AI search is less about ranking pages and more about recruiting readable, quotable evidence. For twenty years, SEO people have lived inside the

OpenAI’s latest research suggests the future of AI isn’t better chatbots. It’s a world where humans manage teams of parallel agents instead of completing tasks themselves. For the past two years, we’ve been measuring AI

There is a very serious disease among founders and growth teams. It is called: “We do not want to look cringe on the internet.” Symptoms include: whispering the phrase “personal brand” as if it were a skin condition, spe

Agentic AI has become one of those fields where everyone is suddenly using the same words and meaning completely different things. One person says “agent” and means a chatbot with a tool call. Another means a workflow wi

A new paper shows that AI job-risk estimates based on platform chat logs may be measuring who uses AI, not which professions are truly exposed. There is a wonderfully modern way to make a bad forecast. Take a huge pile o

A new paper argues that neural networks may not converge toward one global representation of reality. After proper statistical calibration, what survives is something subtler: shared local topology. There is a very seduc

A cheap Claude proxy is not just a bargain API. It may be an account farm, a model swap, and a very efficient way to leak your prompts, code, and documents. There is a useful rule in technology. If someone offers you a p

There are sentences you read once, put the coffee down, and then read again more slowly. This is one of them: “It broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours.” That line was attributed to

There is a new phrase floating around the AI coding world, and it sounds just irritating enough to become important. Loop engineering. Naturally, it has arrived with the usual smell of fresh terminology, LinkedIn smoke,

A new RAG design paper argues that enterprise retrieval should stop searching the whole document swamp at once and start by asking a simpler question: where should this query even belong? There is a particular kind of co

There was a time when a paid newsletter was a very simple machine. You wrote something. You put half of it behind a paywall. Then you sat there like a man selling umbrellas in the Sahara, wondering why nobody was throwin

There is a particular kind of business nightmare that arrives very politely. It does not kick the door down. It does not announce itself with a dramatic soundtrack. It simply walks into the room, opens a benchmark, and s

There is a wonderful old fantasy about the music industry. It goes like this: people make songs, listeners decide what they like, critics write reviews, platforms count plays, charts reflect popularity, and everyone invo

Social media used to be simple. You posted something vaguely funny, prayed to the algorithm, watched the intern delete a typo, and pretended “engagement” was a strategy. Now it is a full-contact psychological sport invol

A strange thing is happening in June 2026. I’m not even sure AI progress itself is at its fastest point. It probably isn’t. Or at least we’re close enough to the peak that arguing about it feels academic. What feels genu

For a while, the AI business model looked deceptively simple. You build a model. You rent a mountain of GPUs from a cloud provider. You launch a chatbot. You charge users $20, $100, or $200 a month. You burn more money t

There is a particular sentence that should make every founder slightly nervous: “We have a successful business, but investors want us to make it SaaS.” I heard a version of that today from a startup. And I understand why

There is something wonderfully absurd about modern finance. For most of history, if you owned a sports team, you worried about simple things. Will the team win? Will fans buy tickets? Will the superstar’s knee remain att

There is something deeply comforting about mathematics. Not because it is easy. It is not. Mathematics is the discipline where a missing minus sign can ruin your week, your theorem, your reputation, and possibly your wil

There was a time when the internet’s greatest miracle was search. You typed a few words into a rectangular box, pressed Enter, and somewhere in California a machine rummaged through the entire collective mess of human ci

There are many ways to get rich in technology. You can found a company. You can invest early. You can buy something stupid at the bottom of a cycle and sell it to someone even more optimistic near the top. You can accide

There was a time, not very long ago, when white-collar professionals had a comforting story to tell themselves. AI would replace routine work. The boring work. The mechanical work. The “please summarize this PDF and make