Who Owns the Style?

Three ongoing court cases will determine whether AI companies owe anything to the artists whose work trained their models. The legal theories are complicated. The stakes are not.

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Interviews

I Asked an AI to Be My Therapist for 30 Days

Not as a substitute for care — I have a therapist. As an experiment in what emotional support from a machine actually feels like, what it gets right, and the specific ways it failed that no one warned me about.

Mar 15, 2026 · min read

From the Editor

Intelligence is not a technology problem. It is a civilization problem. We publish here because the questions matter — not because there are easy answers, but because the people asking them deserve serious company.

The Brief

Verdicts

Verdict

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: A Verdict

After six months of daily use across writing, coding, analysis, and reasoning tasks, here is an honest account of what Claude 3.5 Sonnet actually does well, where it falls short, and whether it deserves the praise it has received.

Mar 15, 2026 · min Read →

Mind

Essay

The Ghost in the Autocomplete

What does it mean to think alongside a machine that has no experience of thinking? McLuhan called media extensions of the human body. Language models may be something else: extensions of the human mind that leave no room for the mind itself.

Mar 15, 2026 · min read

The Brief

Mar 15, 2026

OpenAI's Operator Problem

Giving an AI agent a credit card sounds like a product feature. It is actually one of the harder unsolved problems in AI deployment — and the solutions being implemented right now are not adequate to the risks they are supposed to manage.

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