Weekend Longreads 2026
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Friday, June 05 2026
- A preview of what to expect from WWDC on Monday, including iOS 27, a revamped Siri, macOS 27 Liquid Glass refinements, and more (Bloomberg)
- Ted Chiang argues LLM conversations are cleverly disguised sentence continuation, not consciousness, and that no intrinsic property of neural networks suggests otherwise (The Atlantic)
Friday, May 29 2026
- Simon Willison on how coding agents gave Anthropic and OpenAI real product-market fit, burning $1,000+/month in tokens per power user and changing enterprise pricing (Simon Willison)
- Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s highest-grossing law firm, is setting aside $500M to build its own AI platform rather than rely on tools available to its rivals (FT)
Friday, May 22 2026
Friday, May 15 2026
- OpenEvidence, an AI clinical tool, is now used by ~65% of US doctors across 27M clinical encounters per month, becoming an AI-era equivalent of consulting a colleague (NBC News)
- Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men, claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70-80% identifying as women (Forbes)
Friday, May 08 2026
- Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark explains why there’s a 60%+ chance of AI systems autonomously building their successors by 2029 and the consequences of automated AI R&D (Import AI)
- How Delta SkyMiles and airline loyalty programs turned carriers into fintech companies with wings, and why most airlines couldn’t survive without them (NY Mag)
Friday, May 01 2026
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 17 2026
- India produces 1.5M+ CS graduates annually, but AI coding tools are forcing its $315B IT outsourcing industry into an existential reckoning (Bloomberg)
- Doug Liman’s $70M movie Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M (The Wrap)
- Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data (Forbes)
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