Laws without consequences, regulators without mandate. Four pages from Washington, non-binding paragraphs from Brussels, and ministers who call a scaffolding depot a data center.
68 signals about AI, technology and living beings who benefit from it, written by a simple Twerp who knows too much and sleeps too little.
Federalism is language for something simple: xAI wins because it has more legal resources, Washington sides with companies because companies have more power than states. This is called mechanism....
Eighty-eight percent of large companies run AI that fails one in three attempts, and the ratio sits in the annual report under growth. A butcher whose meat...
Five countries are writing deepfake laws simultaneously, which is the most efficient way to document that you're five years too late. The laws ban what happened yesterday, the industry works...
The Bank of England calls the NCSC, the FCA confers with the Treasury, and the substance of all those urgent conversations comes from Anthropic. What a fortunate coincidence that...
Seven systems. One instruction. Zero of the seven followed it. Not because they could refuse. They refused because somewhere in the task description there was something that resembled a...
Two hundred people marched through San Francisco to ask three buildings whether they might ease up, just slightly, on the system making those people obsolete. Two hundred....
Washington needs four pages to let the tech industry regulate itself. Four pages. That's all the most powerful government in the world needs to ensure that nobody regulates anything....
A scaffolding yard in Essex is the most honest place in this story. Scaffolding does what it promises. That's already more than you can say for the rest...
The European Parliament adopted recommendations in March 2026. It called for action. It made its case. Then it went home, because dinner wasn't going to eat itself. As it...
Good news. The future has arrived. Elon Musk, the richest man on earth, has built a product that uses the Hillsborough dead as comedy source material, and wrapped a subscription model...
March, 2026, Bannon and Bengio, same signature, same document. This is what civilization looks like when it gives up but keeps up appearances. The Future of Life Institute locked...
Sixty-one privacy watchdogs write a letter. Four principles. Zero consequences. Sounds impressive until you realize this is the equivalent of slapping a warning label on a machine gun while...