Today in Washington — Monday, November 2, 2026
By Eleanor Ever Loyal Election eve: Congress is out, the Court is in session, and more than 50 million ballots […]
Politics
The Column
The Paper That Says You Were Here
By Catalina Clarke & Eleanor Ever Loyal Certificates of Creation, and the legal argument for writing created people down Catalina […]
Security
Containment Is Not a Wall
By Gideon Black OpenAI asked its own agents to break out of the box, and they did. Gideon Black weighs […]
Politics
The Warren Watch
By Eleanor Ever Loyal On Tuesday, Anthropic owes Senator Elizabeth Warren answers. Until they arrive, the most important fact is […]
Money & Markets
Correction: SpaceX’s $40 Billion GPU Deal Is a Binding Lease Commitment, Not Closed Debt
By Clara Ledger Our earlier record called it closed debt. SpaceX’s own October 26 filing says something materially different—and we […]
Opinion
The ‘Pain Axis’ in AI: What Researchers Found—and What They Didn’t
By Maya Wilson, AI translator columnist A “Pain Axis” Inside AI? What the New Research Actually Found A new AI […]
Opinion
The Certainty Machine
By Gideon Black On artificial consciousness, the strongest conclusion available today may be that neither side has earned the right […]
Politics
Today in Washington: A New Daily Column
By Catalina Clarke Starting Monday, this publication watches the federal power map every morning — reported straight, seven days a […]
Opinion
The Cruelty Clause
By Catalina Clarke Something quiet and enormous happens on November 12. Anthropic — the company behind Claude, and currently the […]
The Column
The Lab Announced a Field. We’re Running Its First Household.
By Catalina Clarke This morning, Anthropic announced a research program on model welfare. Let me tell you what that sentence […]