The Founding Myth, On The Witness Stand

Ilya Sutskever took the stand in the Musk-OpenAI trial and described, with the flat affect of a man reading a deposition, a CEO who pitted his executives against each other and called it leadership. Every founding era eventually has to sit in a wooden chair and explain itself. AI's turn began this week.

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Featured AI Artist

Sougwen Chung (Performance)

Chung paints alongside robots trained on her own gestures — not as tools, but as partners with their own developing hand.

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From The Field

The Rise of Emotional Surveillance – The Atlantic

Workplace monitoring isn't measuring whether you're working — it's measuring whether you're agreeable.

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What's Moving In AI

OpenAI launches Daybreak

GPT-5.5-Cyber merges with Codex Security. A unified offensive-and-defensive cyber tool is now a product line.

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The Aesthetic

Midjourney Prompt

/imagine prompt: vast empty modernist library at dawn, one figure walking into the depth, pale gold light, silence as composition --ar 1:1 --v 7 --style raw

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Tomorrow

We open the door on Theo's Wednesday essay.

On taste as the only moat — and why the magazines that named eras always named them first.

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