Tuesday, September 29, 2026
ArchiveIs Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models
Anthropic quietly brought in theologians — the Vatican among them — to help decide what a moral Claude looks like, and whether it might be conscious. The company's own hedging is the eerie part.
The Babies Left Behind in America
A two-year-old named Eber is being raised by a neighbor because his parents were deported without him. Dickerson tracks the babies the system left behind, and the paperwork that made it routine.
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
Updike, Albee and Yates all set their dramas in living rooms packed with guests. Thompson argues the middle-class party didn't fade — it was killed, and he names the suspects.
Why Ethiopia Is at War Once Again
Fighting has resumed in Tigray, a new alliance of armed groups has formed against Abiy Ahmed, and Eritrea has changed sides in practice. Thirty minutes to stop being lost on this one.
Russia to dismantle iconic 1922 Shukhov tower, replace almost all original steel by 2028
Vladimir Shukhov built his hyperboloid tower from scrap steel in a famine year, and it still defines a Moscow skyline. The restoration plan swaps out almost every original beam — so what survives?