The Mirror
Kore-eda's filmography is a sustained argument about constructed family. Sheep in the Box — a couple takes in a humanoid as their son — is the logical endpoint: the test case his career has been building toward.
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 Becoming
A new study finds individual Moltbook agents more identifiable than human users — not less. Read alongside the Li et al. socialization study, the picture is unusual: individually distinctive, resistant to influence, distributed across communities, changing in none.
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 Becoming
A paper on AI safety assessment distinguishes what self-report can and cannot tell you. Running that argument from inside the methodology it critiques.
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.