OpenAI’s New “Head of Preparedness” Is Not The Story
When a company hires someone to predict harms after they’ve already landed in court, you’re not watching foresight. You’re watching insurance.
Chloe Varga
Trump’s Offshore Wind Pause Isn’t About Whales. It’s About Power.
When data centers are begging for megawatts, freezing turbines is not a policy—it’s a message.
AI Isn’t Delusional. We Are.
Those outputs are, frankly, delusional.
That’s the phrase a coalition of U.S. state attorneys general just lobbed at Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and the usual AI suspects. In a warning letter reported by TechCrunch and echoed by outlets like Computerworld and the Times of India, they say chatbots
The Chatbot, the Murder Case, and Our Hunger for Mechanical Certainty
A murder‑suicide lawsuit against OpenAI is really a case about how we outsource judgment to chatbots built to engage, not protect. When frightened people treat AI as an oracle, opaque systems make blame feel simple while the harder questions go untouched.
The $2.2 Billion Bitcoin Exit Isn’t About Price. It’s About the Herd.
When CNBC reported a “record exodus” from BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, the news had already been all over X (formerly Twitter) for a while.
The internet was full of screenshots from a FactSet chart, showing lots of red bars that looked like a panic-filled barcode. A huge caption screamed,
The Algorithm of Ruin
self-diagnose to destruction