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Issue No. 005  ·  STARDATE 2026.04.23

THE PRICE OF A CHEAP MIND

Hidden costs surface as intelligence gets cheap — a $25B environmental bill, voice chatbots tugging on our attention, and teenagers worried about losing the ability to think. Ca...

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Issue No. 004  ·  STARDATE 2026.04.22

THE FACTORY FLOOR AND THE FIRST DRAFT

A wheeled humanoid quietly hits real production numbers in Erlangen, Goldman puts a figure on the Gen Z jobs squeeze and Opus 4.7 crosses the human-expert baseline, and a UN pan...

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Issue No. 003  ·  STARDATE 2026.04.21

Borrowing the Machine's Confidence

Workers using AI are quietly borrowing the machine's confidence at the cost of their own judgment, a Tufts neuro-symbolic system slashes AI energy use by 100×, and we map what i...

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