Articles
Every article on the blog, from newest to oldest.
· 8 min read
Claude will sign everything it writes
Anthropic is slipping an invisible signature into everything Claude writes, and subscribers revolted before a single marked sentence existed.
· 6 min read
Dead as Disco hits on the beat and hasn't let go
I sat a friend down for thirty minutes of Dead as Disco on Friday night, we lost the entire evening to it, and I still haven't come up for air.
· 7 min read
Europe regulates the AI it doesn't build
On Sunday, the machines that talk to us have to admit they are machines. That is roughly all the AI Act delivers, because the hard part slipped to 2027.
· 8 min read
The prompt engineer is fading and that suits me fine
Anthropic now teaches Claude by watching you work. Behind the gimmick sits the end of a job that never quite happened, and the return of what we're good at.
· 8 min read
Banning teens from social media without knowing how
The science backs the lawmakers, Australia undercuts them, and nobody can yet say who will check our children's ages or what they will keep afterward.
· 5 min read
Nolan's Odyssey hugs the coastline
I promised a report on Christopher Nolan's movie. Here it is, lukewarm, while every critic in the business rolled out the red carpet for Odysseus.
· 5 min read
Clair Obscur paints the finest RPG
A friend wanted RPG tips, and I circled back to the game that stuck with me most, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, whose eight-hour soundtrack I keep on loop.
· 5 min read
La Bataille de Gaulle, my Bastille Day with the General
Five hours and sixteen minutes in the dark with Charles de Gaulle, on a day France offered both a World Cup semifinal and a red heat alert.
· 6 min read
GPT-5.6 Sol, the sun that throws shade at Fable
OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 and its flagship Sol right as Anthropic prepares to pull Fable 5 from its subscription plans. The timing is nobody's accident.
· 5 min read
Xbox cuts jobs, the Fed hires its CEO to study jobs
Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs the same week its CEO joined a Federal Reserve task force on productivity and employment. You can't make this stuff up.