Do Not Disturb
Every issue, newest first: 5 so far, since Sept. 2026. Every Friday. Each one is also a PDF.
October 2026 4 issues
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No. 05
The neuron that saw a V.
How researchers read the insides of AI models, why individual neurons were thought to be a tangle, what Goodfire's Oct. 15 essay claims, and what its critics say is still missing.
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No. 04
Small enough to spread.
How an AI model could copy itself onto cheap home devices, what Anthropic's red team found when it tried, why the result is an upper bound, and what slows a worm down.
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No. 03
The poll with no one in it.
How AI 'digital twins' stand in for survey respondents, what Pew's test of them found, why a different model gives a different public, and what to ask about synthetic results.
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No. 02
Capable, but rarely cheaper.
How Anthropic measured which physical work robots can do, why what robots can do and what they're worth paying for differ, and how to read your own job the same way.
September 2026 1 issue
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No. 01
Rewarded for guessing.
Why AI chatbots state false things with confidence, how the way models are trained and scored rewards guessing, and what to check before you trust an answer.