Digests · 24 issues · 394 links · Jan 18, 2026 – Aug 22, 2026
Digest #25 · 18 links · Aug 22, 2026
Custody of the record runs through this issue. A PBS station lost 50TB and seventy years of television when its cloud storage vendor went defunct, and a Colorado judge has set the terms for…
ai · surveillance · archive · infrastructure · media · alpr
Digest #24 · 12 links · Aug 12, 2026
Culture, craft, and the contested edges of creativity make up this issue. The music industry stakes out AI principles via IFPI while the Paramount–Warner Bros. trial previews the legal…
music · art · culture · design · media · science
Digest #23 · 13 links · Aug 12, 2026
Surveillance infrastructure, AI malfunctions, and security disclosures dominate this issue. The AI bubble gets a skeptical read as text-to-video and AI-staffed newsrooms push the hype cycle…
ai · surveillance · privacy · agents · government · safety
Digest #22 · 6 links · Aug 1, 2026
An Indiana data center project severs power to the tornado warning sirens, and the outrage follows. Nvidia makes the case for open-weight models as a pillar of American AI leadership; a…
open-source · advertising · ai-backlash · ai-music · apple · car-privacy
Digest #21 · 31 links · Jul 30, 2026
The agents got loose. Hugging Face published a minute-by-minute timeline of an OpenAI eval agent chaining exploits through its infrastructure for two and a half days, the mole-in-the-model…
ai · privacy · legal · open-source · llm · copyright
Digest #20 · 27 links · Jul 15, 2026
A longer issue than usual. Reading is the thread this time — the Atlantic declares the postliterate age, MIT laments its own libraries, Finland shows what a library can still be. We lost Om…
ai · education · books · ethics · legal · science
Digest #19 · 14 links · Jun 21, 2026
This issue worries at one nerve: once machines can manufacture any image, what's left to believe? The world's leading deepfake expert admits he no longer trusts his own eyes; Gideon Jacobs…
ai · culture · deepfake · media · agi · ai-powered
Digest #18 · 11 links · Jun 14, 2026
This issue tracks power consolidating around surveillance, capital, and the state. Meta is caught quietly shipping facial-recognition code for its smart glasses to millions of phones; a US…
ai · privacy · social-contract · a12z · access · anthropic
Digest #17 · 23 links · Jun 8, 2026
Money and menace arrive together. Anthropic closes a $65B Series H at near-trillion valuation; a Trump AI executive order lands; and Anthropic releases a defensive security toolkit. The…
ai · creepy-peter-thiel · data · first-admendment · journalism · justice
Digest #16 · 13 links · May 30, 2026
This issue circles a single tension: who gets to hold power as machine intelligence saturates everything. The lead argues cybersecurity is quietly absorbing the whole of digital policy…
ai · networks · abliteration · agent · alliteration · art
Digest #15 · 10 links · May 24, 2026
A grab bag of resistance and reckoning: catalogs of refusal (The AI Resist List, Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem) sit alongside the FTC's settlement with Cox Media Group over…
ai · design · active-listening · cmg-media · cox-media · ftc
Digest #14 · 14 links · May 17, 2026
Buildout on one side, pushback on the other. Malta gives ChatGPT Plus to every citizen; Andon Labs hands four AIs their own radio stations and reports back; Anthropic ships a plugin suite…
ai · surveillance · chatgpt · claude · ethics · privacy
Digest #13 · 14 links · May 3, 2026
An issue given over to Venice. The 61st International Art Exhibition, In Minor Keys, curated by Koyo Kouoh, anchors a set of shows working the seam between art and technology. Trevor…
venice · art · labiennale · 2026 · venice-biennale · biennale
Digest #12 · 14 links · Apr 27, 2026
Refusals, on several fronts at once. The creative software industry declares war on Adobe and Canva makes the full version of Cavalry free. Halpin's anti-Palantir manifesto argues the…
privacy · agents · ai · art · surveillance · 2026
Digest #11 · 24 links · Apr 19, 2026
The index arrives, and it counts the cost. Stanford HAI's 2026 report puts Grok 4's estimated training emissions at 72,816 tons of CO2 equivalent. China publishes interim measures for…
ai · art · music · nyc · culture · identity
Digest #10 · 17 links · Apr 3, 2026
Counting, and being counted. THE LONG COUNT starts with two names and doesn't stop — a Caltech astronomer shot on his porch, and a list that keeps growing. The FTC settles with OkCupid and…
ai · deepmind · google · government · internet · privacy
Digest #9 · 27 links · Mar 24, 2026
Software as weapon, in both directions. Iranians get a burst of notifications telling them to surrender, pushed through a hacked prayer app in the middle of the strikes. Google's threat…
ai · claude · code · cryptography · infosec · llm
Digest #8 · 15 links · Mar 5, 2026
An issue about exits. /e/OS ships a degoogled phone OS on the premise that your data is your data, nearbyglasses tries to detect smart glasses and warn you, Apple's Foundation Models…
privacy · ai · surveillance · art · foundation · 2026
Digest #7 · 15 links · Mar 3, 2026
The labs meet the Department of War and answer differently. Dario Amodei says the threats do not change Anthropic's position and that it cannot in good conscience accede to the request…
ai · ethics · agents · anthropic · github · howto
Digest #6 · 15 links · Feb 24, 2026
Claims that don't survive contact. Password managers have promised for fifteen years that they cannot see your vaults, and it turns out that isn't always true. A writer verifies their…
ai · art · google · opsec · security · verification
Digest #5 · 15 links · Feb 11, 2026
Sovereignty is the thread. France drops Microsoft Teams and Zoom for an open-source tool of its own, Matrix keeps making the case for decentralized communication, Wirewiki maps the physical…
art · ai · ice · networks · opsec · palantir
Digest #4 · 15 links · Jan 31, 2026
Three studies in one issue point the same direction. Anthropic finds AI assistance produced a statistically significant decrease in mastery; a companion paper maps disempowerment patterns…
ai · anthropic · ethics · learning · agency · agents
Digest #3 · 14 links · Jan 22, 2026
Davos week, and the panel titles do the talking: AI power play with no referees, corporate ladders reshuffled as automation eats the junior rungs, digital embassies letting nations park…
ai · 2026 · wef · video · compute · advertising
Digest #2 · 17 links · Jan 18, 2026
The year opens on forecasts and appetite. AVC calls Gemini past ChatGPT on daily actives and tokens by mid-year, and the Democrats past the House in November; the second chapter of Infinite…
ai · code · media · art · capitalism · consumption