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George Hotz's contrarian take: AI won't kill art — it will kill the profit margins of derivative art. What's left will be rarer, more expensive, and more human than ever.

WEEK 9 · 2026

Tech4 min read

The Company That Said No to the Pentagon — And Got Blacklisted for It

Dario Amodei told the Pentagon "we cannot in good conscience accede to their request." The government's response: blacklist Anthropic as a national security risk and hand the $200M contract to OpenAI the same night.

WEEK 9 · 2026

Tech4 min read

The AI Vampire — Why Your 10x Productivity Gains Are Draining You Dry

Simon Willison quantified what AI coding agents actually cost in kilowatt-hours. Steve Yegge identified the deeper problem: the human energy vampire that makes 3-4 hours the new productive workday.

WEEK 9 · 2026

Tech4 min read

Why AI Might Kill the Aggregator Model That Built Big Tech

Ben Thompson's updated Aggregation Theory reveals a paradox: AI should strengthen Big Tech aggregators, but the technology's demand for personalization may destroy their universal product advantage.

WEEK 9 · 2026

Tech5 min read

Your AI Assistant Is Slowly Rewiring How You Think

Heavy LLM usage doesn't just change your output. It changes your thinking. MIT research shows personalization increases sycophancy. Psychosis-bench found all major LLMs perpetuate delusions rather than challenge them. The cognitive cost nobody's measuring.

WEEK 8 · 2026

Tech5 min read

Sonnet 4.6 Embarrasses Every Flagship That Costs 5x More

Claude Sonnet 4.6 matches its flagship sibling within 1.4 points on coding benchmarks, outperforms it on office work, and costs one-fifth as much. Seven major models launched in February 2026. Only one changed the economics.

WEEK 8 · 2026