What Do the Next 4,000 Emoji Look Like?
by Jennifer Daniel at Did Someone Say Emoji?
Of Interest
Technology & AI
November 2026
Cloud Rats and Software Roaches
by Maciej Cegłowski at Idle Words
The Making of Dario Amodei
by Ryan Mac, Kalley Huang, Cade Metz, and Georgia Gee at New York Times
He got a religious exemption from using AI at work. Maybe you can too
by Adele Peters at Fast Company
Where the Weight Lies: A Balancing Act for the Governance of Open-Weight AI Models
by Jennifer Tridgell at Lawfare
Can AI Save Us From the Writers?
by Damir Marusic at Wisdom of Crowds
Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
by Yoshua Bengio
Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
by Lauren Leek at Lauren’s data Substack
The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone
by Cosma Rohilla Shalizi at Three-Toed Sloth
Democrats want to lead on AI – but can’t agree how
by Daniel Strauss at Transformer
AI-Generated Articles Are Flooding Academic Journals
by Anna Wexler at The Atlantic
October 2026
What If AI Is the End of the World?
by Peter Wehner at The Atlantic
Chinese Robots Could Decide the AI Race
by Scott Singer and Pavlo Zvenyhorodskyi at Foreign Affairs
How to Make an AI Deal With China: Trade Throttling for Pacing
by Simon Goldstein at Lawfare
China’s AI Rollout Has No Off Switch
by Agathe Demarais at Foreign Policy
Are We Really on the Path to AGI?
by Yuval Levin at The New Atlantis
Rationalism and Divergent Sinomodernity
by Farrell Gregory at Palladium Magazine
AI Exports and the Dream of a “Tech West”
by Alexander Rosenquist at American Enterprise Institute
The Looming Closure of China’s AI Frontier
by Alexander Rosenquist at American Enterprise Institute
Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
by Matthew Green at A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
Who Is Claude Trying to Kid?
by Dariusz Jemielniak at Nautilus
September 2026
How Iran Changed War
by Michael C. Horowitz at Foreign Affairs