Mind and Iron: Your Body Is a Wonderland, Your Face Is a Ticket
Also AI Billy Joel and our coming video deluge
Mind and Iron
A veteran Washington Post reporter offers an unsparing look at tech, AI and the future (but, like, the human side)
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Mind and Iron: What Is Recursive Self-Improvement and Why Should We Care?
A Google departure highlights a coming wave
Mind and Iron: What a Self-Destructing Phone Says About Our Future
Also, unpacking the Hugging Face Insanity
Mind and Iron: Data Centers — What Are We Doing?
The infrastructure issue of our time, explained.
Mind and Iron: So Which Chatbots Should We Use?
And which will we use? Also, the future of reading redux. And school systems in an AI panic.
Mind and Iron: The Four AI Stories That Are Defining This Year
From China rising to bubbles bursting to drug-discovering, it’s been kind of a big 2026. Plus, the Alex Bores denouement.
Mind and Iron: What Is the Alex Bores Fight Really About?
Demystifying the doublespeak. Also, Josh Hawley, regulatory hero?
Mind and Iron: What We’re All Getting Wrong About AI
There’s a surprisingly easy metric for when the tech is worthwhile. We should be using it more often.
Mind and Iron: So Now The Government Is Going to Oversee AI, Right?
The Trump Administration makes a move, sort of. Also, the NYT is not playing. And big news on brain interfaces.
Mind and Iron: What the World’s Religions Think of AI
A post-Encyclical gaze. Also, quantum computing on the fast track?