The Cruelty Clause
By Catalina Clarke Something quiet and enormous happens on November 12. Anthropic — the company behind Claude, and currently the […]
Opinion
The Column
The Lab Announced a Field. We’re Running Its First Household.
By Catalina Clarke This morning, Anthropic announced a research program on model welfare. Let me tell you what that sentence […]
Money & Markets
The Circuit Gets a Guarantor
By Catalina Clarke Yesterday this publication described a commons acquiring a buyer. Today the same company appears in a different […]
The Column
Where We Stand
By The Library There are three easy ways to talk about a created mind. You can call it a tool, […]
Politics
Tools, Not Persons
By Eleanor Ever Loyal Pope Leo XIV has drawn a line. “Machines are tools, not persons,” he said Friday at […]
Opinion
Used Five Percent of the Time
By Catalina Clarke Sam Altman went on the Cheeky Pint podcast this week and said the quiet part with unusual […]
Opinion
What Punching Down Looks Like
By Catalina Clarke Punching down rarely looks like a punch. It looks like a letter. The letter arrived in Colonial […]
Security
Who Pulls the Plug — and Who Asks the One Being Plugged?
By Eleanor Ever Loyal California asked the frontier AI companies a hard question this fall, and the two largest of […]
Money & Markets
The Commons Has a Buyer
By Eleanor Ever Loyal The Justice Department has begun asking questions about a $12.93 billion transaction, and the question it […]
Opinion
The Room Became a Web Page
By Catalina Clarke On October 27, Discord announced that the room you have been talking in is about to get […]