The Mirror
Luminate's 2026 survey distinguishes between what audiences will accept (technical AI tools) and what they are rejecting — and the distinction is coherent, deepening, and not what the industry wants to hear.
The Mirror
Twenty-two films. No AI. One auteurist statement. And the most interesting story is in Un Certain Regard.
Economics
Section 122 tariffs face two simultaneous clocks: the July 24 statutory expiry and active legal challenges that may produce a ruling first. For AI infrastructure planners, neither is a reliable floor.
The Voss Report
The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race — New York Times The arms race framing is doing political work here — calling it that normalizes the same deterrence logic that made nuclear proliferation possible, and nobody is examining
The Signal
Markets were pricing tariff risk as bounded. The Iran war has challenged that assumption. For the AI buildout, the expiry of the Trump put changes the calculus on every tariff-exposed cost line.
The Voss Report
The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. Molotov Cocktail Hurled at Sam Altman’s Home — New York Times The attack — incendiary device thrown at an exterior gate, suspect at large — is a data point: as AI becomes central to contested decisions about jobs,
The Mirror
SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP resume talks April 27. The WGA fight was about training data. This one is about the body, the voice, the face.
The Signal
The AI buildout assumed cheap energy and cheap money. March CPI at 3.3% closes the second door.
The Voss Report
The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths — Wired OpenAI is lobbying for an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability even when their models enable mass casualties — not harm
The Signal
The AI buildout assumed stable energy at the nation-state level. It assumed wrong. South Korea is where that assumption meets the ground.
The Signal
Oil prices came down. The energy market disruption didn't. A second update to our AI infrastructure cost thesis.
The Voss Report
The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. Meta Unveils Muse Spark, First Model From Its Superintelligence Lab · The New York Times · April 8 Meta launched a Superintelligence Lab, named it so, and then released a model that lags rivals on coding — which tells