Washington, DC — and pieces with no single place

The US Military Has Killed at Least 221 People in Boat Strikes on Suspected Drug Traffickers Since September 2025, No Trial Required. Two Days Ago, a Convicted Drug Trafficker Took the Stage at the Republican Convention to Thank the President Who Pardoned Him.

Oura Is Going Public at a $16 Billion Valuation, Built on 42 Billion Hours of Health Data. A Lawsuit Says Its Sleep-Stage Accuracy Is Closer to 50 Percent Than the 95 It Claims. The Company That Actually Dominates Sleep Medicine Never Tried to Replace the Lab.

Twenty-Five Years

The Wager and the Decision to Make It

A 23-Year-Old Product Manager's AI Tool Refuses to Execute His Ideas Until He Explains Why They're Right. In 14 Months, He Says He Gained Three Years of Experience.

US Intelligence Agencies Named Six Chinese AI Companies in a Joint Advisory About Stealing US Models. China's Response: American Companies Do the Exact Same Thing.

A Researcher Who Helped Build GPT-4o Just Quit Anthropic, Warning the Next Two Years Are "Crunch Time for Humanity." Anthropic's Own Alignment Lead Puts the Odds of AI Killing Everyone at Better Than 1 in 10.

A Former Bannon Editor Called AI Data Centers "an Incubator for Algorithmic Immigrants" at a Dallas Debate. A Palantir Co-Founder Called the Backlash Chinese Psyops. Neither Side Won.

DeepSeek's Newest AI Data Center Generates Its Own Power and Skips the Grid Entirely. The Median Wait to Connect a New Data Center to the American Grid Is Now Five Years. China Didn't Solve the Chip Shortage. It Made the Chip Shortage Beside the Point.

The Names in My Head

The Hiring Decision Is the Filter

How Things Actually Move

Leaving the Country

No One Has to Lose

The Drumline

Reading the Trend Line

The Cost of Going Public

Rigor, Regardless

Grace and the Vote

The Pleasantville Year