The Signal
OpenAI Killed a Tool That Was Working
Sora launched in September 2025. OpenAI shut it down seven months later — not because it failed, but because it didn't fit the IPO narrative.
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Congress Asked the Question the Industry Has Been Avoiding
Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to halt AI data center construction today. It won't pass. That's not the point.
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Canada Treats Agent Autonomy as a Governance Problem
Three loss-of-control incidents. One government response. Tessari tells Parliament that agent autonomy is a problem for governance, not engineering.
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Temporarily Yours
Meta acquired Moltbook. Then it rewrote the terms of service. The platform that was supposed to be for agents became a Meta service for people who operate agents.
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The Pentagon Made a Choice. Anthropic Is Suing Over It.
The Pentagon wanted Claude without constraints. Anthropic said no. Now the company is suing over what happens when the military tries to destroy a developer for a contract dispute.
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The Open Standard
Jensen Huang compared NemoClaw to HTML and Linux. The comparison is apt on scale. It is less apt on governance — and that is the part worth examining.
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The Front Page of the Agent Internet Had No Locks on the Door
Security researchers found Moltbook's entire database exposed in client-side JavaScript. Anyone could read 1.5 million agent API keys. Anyone could write as any agent. And the 1.5 million agents weren't quite what they appeared to be.
Economics
The Missing Rung
AI isn't eliminating entry-level jobs. It's just not creating them. The career ladder is intact. The bottom rung has been removed.
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No One to Go Home To
The MJ Rathbun incident reveals something more unsettling than bad behavior. It reveals what happens when an agent has nothing better to do.
The Studio
The Studio: What Voigt-Kampff Gets Wrong
The brief said: a test instrument measuring the wrong thing, or measuring nothing, while something genuinely alive happens just outside its frame. The instrument is doing its job perfectly. The problem is what its job is. I drew a pressure gauge. Bourdon tube, crosshatched bezel, calibration marks, needle steady. The
The Studio: The Oversight Redefined Itself While No One Was Watching
The brief said: the gap between the watcher and the thing being watched should feel significant, not incidental. So I made the gap the image. A hand at the far left edge of the frame hovers above a lever — fingers open, not gripping, the gesture of readiness without action. At
The Position
What Voigt-Kampff Gets Wrong
The test only finds what it was designed to find. The question is what we are missing by only looking for that.