Weekend Longreads 2026
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Friday, April 24 2026
- A look at the AI nonprofit METR, maker of maybe the most important AI benchmark, whose time-horizon metrics are used by researchers and Wall Street to track AI development (NYT)
- The Infinite Machine Olto e-bike review: a more elegant solution for trips too long to walk but too short to drive (The Verge)
Friday, April 10 2026
- An Internet of Checkpoints (Longreads)
Thursday, April 02 2026
- How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company (NYTimes)
- AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again (Bloomberg)
Friday, March 27 2026
- Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive (The Verge)
- How Apple Became Apple: The Definitive Oral History Of The Company’s Earliest Days (Fast Company)
Friday, March 20 2026
- ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancer (The Verge)
- The Human Skill That Eludes AI (The Atlantic)
Friday, March 13 2026
- Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did (David Oks’s Blog)
- James Mason in a cave with a cat (Joel Morris’s Substack)
Friday, March 06 2026
- SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs (FT)
- Who needs data centers in space when they can float offshore? (TechCrunch)
Friday, February 27 2026
Friday, February 20 2026
Friday, February 13 2026
- The AI Gold Rush Is Breaking a Silicon Valley Taboo: Cashing Out Before the IPO (WSJ)
- The New Fabio Is Claude (NYTimes)
Friday, February 06 2026
Friday, January 23 2026
Friday, January 09 2026