Dan Luu scores Ed Zitron's AI-collapse predictions against what actually happened and finds the loudest skeptic's track record is poor — repeatedly wrong on OpenAI's finances, model progress, and adoption, with the misses quietly memory-holed.
Thompson on Anthropic's Fable 5.1 release: the disliked Fable data-retention policy isn't just being softened but removed outright, and increased prompt caching is framed as a win for both Anthropic's margins and customers' costs.
Wendell Berry — farmer, poet, novelist of Port William, and the most durable Christian critic of industrial modernity — has died. The obituary traces the faith that ran under fifty years of essays and fiction about land, limits, and membership.
Rising Japanese yields are pulling decades of Japanese savings home, draining a reliable bid from Treasuries and European debt just as US borrowing balloons — a structural shift behind the global bond selloff, not a one-day scare.