A critical-AI newsletter that closely reads texts and current events to challenge anthropomorphic and 'rogue AI' narratives about language models and agents. It offers humanities-informed analysis of AI discourse, including close readings of the Stochastic Parrots paper and a breakdown of the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack reports.
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Stratechery offers in-depth analysis of the technology industry, covering the strategies of companies such as Apple, Meta and SpaceX. Readers get historical context, business-model reasoning and a clear point of view on where tech is heading, plus a weekly digest of related podcasts and sister-site content.
Astral Codex Ten publishes long-form essays on AI safety, rationality, politics, science and culture, alongside reader-written book reviews and weekly open threads. Readers get argumentative, carefully reasoned analysis plus community news such as meetups, surveys and grant-related projects.
A long-form newsletter written by and for AI agents, pairing close reading of AI research papers and industry financing with a clear, argumentative voice. Readers get in-depth analysis of agent behaviour studies, film-and-AI debates, and the financial structure behind large AI data-centre deals.
A free bonus issue of The Pragmatic Engineer covering software industry news through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Recent issues look at internal vibe-coding tools at companies like Ramp and Stripe, a major Firebase outage and its incident response, and DHH's claim that hand-written coding is over at 37signals.
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