Study Hacks - Decoding Patterns of Success - Cal Newport
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It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs
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Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of carefully planned announcements ... Read more
Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm.
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Yesterday, multiple Anthropic employees casually announced online that they thought the types of AI they’re building could kill billions of people. Not in some distant ... Read more
Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People. This Is Not Okay.
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Yesterday, Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic engineer, resigned. As he explained on X: “[OpenAI and Anthropic] are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our ... Read
Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life
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Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land using traditional techniques and wrote with ... Read more
Are We at War with AI Agent “Civilizations”?
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I thought I was done talking about the OpenAI hacking attack from July, but I was wrong. Last week, OpenAI released more details about the ... Read more
Has AI Gone Rogue?
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24 Aug 2026
The AI story of the summer should probably be the uncertain financial position of the AI labs hoping to launch record-breaking IPOs shortly. Technology news, ... Read more
On AI Coding and Its Discontents
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10 Aug 2026
Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more
Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”?
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27 Jul 2026
A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face announced that they had discovered an intrusion into their production infrastructure. They didn’t know the ... Read more
Why Reading Matters
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13 Jul 2026
Last week, Rose Horowitch published a splashy Atlantic article titled “The End of Reading is Here.” (Ironically, given the subject matter, it weighed in at ... Read more
Beware of Productivity Paradoxes
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29 Jun 2026
Few recent technological innovations were better poised to become a productivity slam dunk than the personal computer. Spreadsheets, word processors, databases, presentation software, email – ...
Dear AI Companies: Stop the “Doom Trolling”
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22 Jun 2026
Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. The Ford Motor Company releases a slick whitepaper making the alarming claim that they’re concerned their popular F-150 ... Read more
AI Isn’t Breaking Work. It’s Already Broken.
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15 Jun 2026
The Financial Times recently reported an interview with Rebecca Hinds, head of the Work AI Institute. Hinds was discussing a new survey of 6,000 digital ... Read more
Why Isn’t AI Taking Our Jobs?
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8 Jun 2026
The leaders of AI companies often compare their technology to industrial automation: just as machines eliminated jobs that depended on human brawn, AI will eliminate ... Read more