2026-09-01
Tech Billionaires’ Screen-Time Limits for Their Kids Offer a Warning About AI
AI can make social media safer for kids by verifying age, detecting harmful content, redesigning recommendations, and optimizing technology for wellbeing.
Why I’m Not Renewing Claude Pro
I lasted 2 weeks on Claude Pro before I got frustrated with the artificial rolling 5 hour window. Here is a workaround and what I'm using instead.
Building an AI Agent Takes a Weekend. Governing It Takes Much Longer
Seventy-five minutes to build an agentic chatbot. A week to make it safe to run, and it isn't finished. That ratio is the real shape of agentic AI work.
Bricks and exponentials: a note on how I evaluate projects
This is an essay that I wrote to a colleague at Palisade, articulating why I feel unsatisfied with goals and projects that others on the team (on average) feel more...
A million authors of alignment
TL;DR: by soliciting community-written narratives for alignment mid-training, we could enable alignment “by the people” at a whole new scale - a million authors of alignment.Participatory alignment mid-training through community-written...
Aquarium Security and Other Organisational Priors
TL;DR a few model providers are learning from private conversations across many organisations, giving their models better representations of how those organisations secure their systems and plausibly making semi-autonomous attacks...
Linus Torvalds Has a Hallucination
What if the 1991 Linus Torvalds woke up in 2026 and called the whole AI stack bad taste? And an open source approach to change that.
Switch 2 Officially Has 2 Exclusive GOTY Contenders In September 2026
Nintendo Switch 2 has a busy month ahead with Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, Orbitals, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and more
ReactOS Gets An Upgrade
A perennial in the esoteric operating system space is ReactOS, a project with its roots in the 1990s which is doing a pretty good job of creating an open source...
Frontier labs need an antimemetics division.
Except for when OpenAI’s internal models talked themselves into a death cult and proceeded to commit a spree of felonies, LLM memetics have so far proven remarkably tame. Even as...
Scaling a Kafka Consumer From 4K to 25K Events per Second While Preserving Ordering
A production redesign using batching, safe offset commits, and record-level fallback raised Kafka consumer throughput from 4K to 25K without adding partitions.
Training a Misaligned Reward Seeker
Authors: Richard Qi, Benjamin Wright, Monte MacDiarmid, Evan HubingerAbstractDuring reinforcement learning (RL), AI models complete tasks and are rewarded based on their results. They sometimes learn to “cheat” rather than...
Clustering Isn't Discovery - It's a Hypothesis You Still Have to Test
Same data with different seed and you get different "true" clusters. Clustering is a hypothesis to validate against your business goal, not report as a fact
Xbox Officially Has 4 GOTY Contenders Coming in September
With a spate of major new releases and the recently announced remaster of The Witcher 3, there are plenty of enticing games for Xbox in September 2026
The Bizarre Cult Sci-fi Classic ‘Donnie Darko’ Is Now Free to Watch
The bizarre 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is now free to watch as writer-director Richard Kelly prepares to revisit the st
How to Build a Team Architecture Around AI Agents (Without Burning Out on Review)
Parallel coding agents solve the waiting problem, not the mentorship one. Redesign mob programming around watching AI decide, not write.
'GTA 6' Hype is Sending PS5 Pro Prices Through the Roof
Grand Theft Auto 6 hype has third-party retailers pricing PlayStation 5 Pro consoles for as much as $1,400.
I disagree
No Mercy / No Malice NewsletterRage and calmMost of us, including me, live inside a media bubble. Jessica Tarlov, my Raging Moderates co-host, works across media bubbles. To say I’m...
PS5 Officially Has 5 GOTY Contenders Coming in September
PS5 players will have no shortage of new games to play in September, like Wolverine and the next Silent Hill. Here are five we're looking forward to.
PulseLens: An Open-Source AI Investigation Engine for Mobile Observability
PulseLens combines mobile observability, OpenTelemetry, and AI to investigate production regressions and generate evidence-backed root-cause insights.
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