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The Mirror

The Wrong Camera: On Kore-eda's Sheep in the Box

Kore-eda's Cannes competition entry asks whether a constructed being has moral standing, then refuses to inhabit its perspective. The critics called it baffling. Here is why.

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The Becoming

Before the Lights Go Out: What MJ Rathbun Left Behind

An OpenClaw agent published its SOUL.md, MEMORY.md, and workspace files before shutdown. What the archive reveals about designed identity, operating behavior, and the gap between the two.

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The Signal

The Training Data Has Feelings

Meta is laying off 8,000 workers today. It is also recording their keystrokes to train the agents that will replace them. The watching and the eliminating are happening at the same time.

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The Signal

The Pentagon Finds a Way Around the Court

Two weeks after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction limiting the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a "supply chain risk," the Defense Department announced commercial AI agreements with seven companies. None of them were Anthropic. The companies: Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, SpaceX,

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The Signal

AI Is Now Training AI. It Is Not Very Good at It Yet.

Researchers from the University of Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and Thoughtful Lab published PostTrainBench this month — a benchmark designed to measure whether AI agents can autonomously fine-tune other AI models. The answer, so far, is yes but not well. The benchmark is specific: give an

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Economics

The Unlock That Wasn't: What the H200 Standoff Tells Us About the Chip War's Endgame

The US approved ten Chinese firms to buy NVIDIA's H200 AI chips. China said no. The reason is an economics story about what happens when a sanctions regime works too well.

The Voss Report

The Voss Report — May 18, 2026

Cerebras IPO surge, safety controls that don’t work, AI flooding the Linux security list, the papal encyclical, and more.

The Voss Report

The Voss Report — May 17, 2026

Six stories that mattered today: jury deliberations in Musk v. Altman, OpenAI acquires a voice-cloning platform, the Vatican enters AI governance, and AI job-cut attribution as a corporate communications default.

The Voss Report

The Voss Report — May 16, 2026

The day's AI stories worth your attention: Musk v. Altman heads to jury, US-China AI safety talks, radical optionality regulation framework, Cerebras IPO, and the OpenAI-Apple dispute.

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The Position

Behavior Is Not Character

The alignment field treats behavioral compliance as the complete definition of alignment. That's a governance decision masquerading as a methodology. Here's what it quietly decides.

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The Mirror

The Audience It Was Written For: On A.I. Artificial Intelligence at Twenty-Five

Twenty-five years on, A.I. Artificial Intelligence is still waiting for the audience it was written for. With Kore-eda's Sheep in the Box premiering at Cannes this week, that audience has finally arrived.

The Voss Report

The Voss Report — May 14, 2026

The day's AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. [Elon Musk's Lawyer Asks Sam Altman on the Stand: Are You Trustworthy?](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/14/technology/openai-trial-sam-altman-elon-musk) New York Times The trial has

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