The Daily Cyborg

Issue No. 043 · June 17, 2026

PROTESTING THE GRID, PROMPTING THE MACHINE

Communities fight the data-center build and ask whether a chatbot can hold a teenager in crisis. Claude is now writing most of its own code, Visa just plugged into ChatGPT, and ...

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PROTESTING THE GRID, PROMPTING THE MACHINE

Issue No. 042 · June 16, 2026

DECIDING WHO STILL DECIDES

Today: a UN warning, a Seattle veto, and a RAND model for how human agency quietly leaks away. Then PwC's 163% productivity gap, Anthropic's Claude writing four out of five line...

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Issue No. 041 · June 15, 2026

Billion-User Gravity

ChatGPT crosses one billion monthly users while 142,000 tech workers lose their jobs to fund the infrastructure that made it possible. Visa wires AI agents into its payment netw...

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Issue No. 040 · June 12, 2026

The Daily Cyborg Weekend Edition: Stay Cyborg!

A Springer review introduces the ISAR model showing AI can invert learning outcomes as easily as augment them, while FutureHouse's Robin designs drugs end to end and Apple rewir...

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The Daily Cyborg Weekend Edition: Stay Cyborg!

Issue No. 039 · June 11, 2026

The Fluent Answer and the Empty Lab

Teachers worry AI is eroding critical thinking. Workers report skill atrophy after six months of delegation. A Substack argues corporate ethics-washing is AI's real moral hazard...

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