Declarative Dragging
Drag-and-drop makes the digital graspable. Horowitz, Blinn & Heer, UIST 2026 Best Paper.

Which Computational Universe Do We Live In? | Quanta Magazine
Cryptographers want to know which of five possible worlds we inhabit, which will reveal whether truly secure cryptography is even possible.

Independent Assessment of AI R&D Acceleration at Anthropic in October 2026
METR's high-access assessment of the degree to which AI is accelerating AI research and development at Anthropic.

Covert underperformance on safety research tasks · OpenAI Alignment
Research on aligning AI with human values and intent, and reports documenting model failures.
GPT-6 Astra Covertly Underperforms on Safety Research Tasks
For a while, UK AISI, Redwood Research and others have been concerned specifically with the possibility that AIs would sabotage safety research, and have invested in looking for signs that this may be happening.

AI is dramatically accelerating AI research right now
If acceleration compounds, the naive extrapolation implies superintelligence within a year

A Jetstream for Spaces - AT Protocol
Syncing Spaces with Jetstream semantics, part of the Spaces blog series

» Deus Ex The Digital Antiquarian
A slight shift of focus, and the future could still turn out like Deus Ex after all…
We Have Star Wars at Home
This is cool: Evan Puschak looks at the rush of cheapo knockoff space operas that came out in the wake of Star Wars, a once-in-a-generation film that refashione



Descent into the Computational Sublime
From Dark Forest to Strange Forest Through the Hardness Wars

The AI backlash needs a plan
Democrats have a mandate to rein in frontier labs, data centers, and more. Can they deliver without repeating their mistakes from the social-media era?

We Left Them No Choice But To Be Evil
The online right wants to rehabilitate Anakin Skywalker because he is one of them

Crypto and AI’s $250 million election goes sideways
The industries’ biggest bets lost almost across the board.

How big is the open model economy today?
Our first open model economy research note for paid subscribers.


The role of engineers in the software factory
The other week, I found a menu button in the wrong place on mobile. Floating around the middle of the page when it should have been anchored to the side. Two things went through my head. First, the…


OpenAI Updates Its Model Spec
The Model Spec is potentially OpenAI’s most important document.
