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Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux
OpenAI’s Tibo Sottiaux shares how Codex was built and how it’s reshaping software development.
BREAKING: Two rays of hope
Pushing for transparency
The Case for Boycotting Generative AI
I believe the time has come
Liberalism needs a new philosophy of immigration
We need to make a principled stand instead of a tactical retreat.
Iconiq Capital and the Evolution of the Family Office
Many of the world’s wealthiest and most famous people entrust their personal fortunes and the logistics of their daily lives to the management of one young family office from San Francisco.
Adding Injury to Insult, Canada Edition
This idiotic trade war will hurt more than people realize
Where Does a Robot Think – On-Device vs Datacenter Inference – On-Device vs Datacenter Inference
For most of its short history, AI lived behind a screen.
Falkland Around
Will Milei impede the formation of a mini-petrostate next door?
The Omarchy Bootcamp is here. How to get started this weekend (and why should you care?)
This is the agentic OS everyone's talking about, what it actually is, and how to get started this weekend.
Culture Becomes a Dark Forest
“Wallfacing” to solve Navier-Stokes
How to Get Rid of Mosquitoes Around You
We’ve discussed how governments can exterminate some species of mosquitoes, but what about you? How can you get rid of the mosquitoes in your home, your backyard, your garden? How can you stop their annoying buzz when you sleep at night? Stop suffering from the itchiness of their bites? Go back out at night again? What works and what doesn’t? Do these mosquito-killing lasers work? Citronella? CO
Trump’s terrible plan to break skilled immigration
Improve flawed programs — don’t destroy them.
Responsible deployment in K12.
How Lynwood Unified School District and Township High School District 211 pair privacy protections, professional learning, and a clear purpose to prepare faculty and staff to use AI responsibly.
Hell-bent
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
September 8, 2026
On Sunday, Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternativ für Deutschland, or AfD) party won 43.8% of the vote in a legislative election in the small state of Saxony-Anhalt, formerly part of Soviet-dominated East Germany.
How Smart Model Routing Can Cut LLM Costs by 10X
Cost reduction isn’t a given. It also depends on the types of requests the application receives, the price difference between models, and how well the routing system performs. In this article, we are going to look at various aspects
The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
Eight different insiders have issued warnings—and you need to hear them out
Will AI Kill Humanity?
This week a 27-year-old researcher who spent three years doing pretraining at OpenAI and then Anthropic quit his job, posted a thread that passed 100 million views, and put the odds of AI killing every human on earth at more than 10 percent.
Inside ELWAY’s 2026 NFL forecast
Our model mostly agrees with Vegas, but the differences are revealing. For instance, why does it feel so conflicted about the Rams?
The Spectre Still Haunting Us
A Special Episode of Maiden, Mother, Matriarch
DeFi Daily - 9th September 2026 🦊🗞️
India targets Weex, Blofin, WOO X and 12 other crypto platforms, and more.
How to feel feelings (to build a better brain)
emotional health = brain health
Cliodynamics and AI: the mid-2026 update
And a new AI-generated compendium on the state of Cliodynamics
The Existential Cost of Waiting
Why we postpone becoming ourselves, how the fantasy of rescue protects us from responsibility, and what remains when the fantasy disappears.
The invention of the MMO
The massively multiplayer online game was created in the 1980s.
The spectre still haunting us
In this bonus episode for paid subscribers, I spoke with Nina Power about the power of communism as an ideology.
Alaska’s ranked choice voting: Six years of experimenting and its biggest test yet
The system that remade the state’s politics is back on the ballot, and so is a candidate it has both carried and sunk.
LIVE from the Trump-Epstein Reading Room
A recording from Charlie Sykes and Miles Taylor's live video
Israeli Strike in Lebanon Kills 12 People From a Single Family, Including 6 Children
Israel is once again escalating its bombing of southern Lebanon despite a ceasefire and ongoing U.S.-brokered talks.
5 Years of Product Growth.
How did we get here? And what’s next.
The Trouble with Ai
(No, not AI, but Ai, the city next to Jericho)
First Impression of Muse
Meta launched Muse yesterday which is Meta’s attempt to be your personal agent to get things done for you.
5 ingredient Burgers
only takes 5 minutes, too!
Different Types of Truth with Jeffrey Kripal
“You don’t have answers, but you want to have the conversation.”
Four Conversations At Geneva Watch Days
Including an unexpected airplane encounter with a high energy physicist.
Podcast #229 - Fox News is Still Trying to Tell Trump ‘It’s the Economy Stupid’
A condensed overview of 20 hours of Fox News for the week ending 9/6/26
The Heart of the Catechist
Teaching with joy requires humility, attention, and faithfulness.
Fox News is Still Trying to Tell Trump ‘It’s the Economy Stupid’
A condensed overview of 20 hours of Fox News for the week ending 9/6/26
EOD Wrap; GS & Citi Conference key recaps
Good afternoon.
An Anthropic Researcher Quit Over AI Extinction Risk. His Safety Chief Publicly Agreed.
The resignation went viral. The endorsement from inside the building is the part that matters–and the reason this may be more fixable than the Cold War ever was.
Some Recent Publicity Regarding Restoring Childhood
Here is some of the publicity centering on my forthcoming book.
Today on Lawfare: Sept. 9, 2026
From Lawfare's Editorial Team.
FINAL CALL: 2ND WASHINGTON, DC STRATEGY SEMINAR — SEPTEMBER 14
Registration closes tonight, Wednesday, September 9, at 9:00 PM ET
Grok Bot Use Cases: 50 Real Ways People Are Using It (September 2026 Edition)
Fifty jobs people hand to an AI agent, each with the exact line to paste. Plus the four things that break, and why the $20 tier changed who this is for.
Who Gets the Best Exec Roles?
Why Your Network of Career Advocates is Your Biggest Asset
BREAKING: Trump Lies About 9/11, Republicans Ditch Trumpapalooza, DHS Caught Spying on Americans, and more...
Top Stories for September 9, 2026.
going fast and slow
on novel logic
Living Happy with Less
Returning the iPhone to gain more time, attention, and energy for myself
The Small Journeys of Autumn
Rediscovering the little world around home
Irina Marin - Violența țărănească și antisemitismul în Europa de Est de la începutul secolului al XX-lea
Este despre răscoala de la 1907 și este exact ce bănuiește toată lumea