Manic Monday
TBPN, MIA; MTS, G2G
Plus, is Palantir’s manifesto a cry for help?
Slop is truth, truth slop
Plus, the attacks on Sam Altman’s house have people wondering how we got here
The long Sam Altman profile that people definitely have opinions about without reading
Plus: Who rules X and why was there a porcupine in the ceiling?
Reclaiming em dashes — and other battles in the AI age
Plus, the White House ruins Wii Sports
Finally, a defense of brainrot
It’s a modern virtue, so says an AI exec. Plus, send me tips about the gaming industry
Wars within wars
Anthropic’s loss is OpenAI’s gain. Plus, the mysterious “Dime” appears at Sightglass
Who (allegedly) runs tech?
Two magazines investigate. Plus, the people want a ‘Silicon Valley’ reboot
The high-fantasy cult of Anthropic
Plus, its fight with the Pentagon, OpenAI and Meta race to deploy AI agents to the masses, and tasteless AI people argue about taste









