Issue 14 · July 2026

Late in the day, early on the future.

Essays on AI, aging, and the questions nobody quite warned us about.

43 essays Podcast Fresh every week

Featured essays

Agentic Engineering: Who Holds the Quality Bar When Agents Write the Code

Physical AI Trains Robots in a Simulated World First

What Should Your Kid Learn When AI Does the Heavy Lifting?

Deep-Tech AI: Why Wrappers Lose When AGI Arrives in Year Five

AlphaFold Did a Billion Years of Work in One. Bottleneck Moved.

Latest

The AI Public Awareness Gap Is Becoming the Real Story

Inside the labs the curve holds. Outside the labs the argument holds. The gap between the two pictures is the real story of 2026.

When Will AGI Arrive? The Four-Word Gap on the Way to 2030

Continual learning. Long-term reasoning. Memory. Consistency. Four words name the whole remaining distance to AGI, and the timeline that follows is around 2030.

On inheriting a name

My name is Hanh Dang. I am Hanh D. Brown now. The D is what survived.

AI

AI Cost Per Token: Why GPU Hour Is the Wrong Bill

From the podcast

ChatGPT Is Adding Ads. Can You Still Trust It?

OpenAI Just Paused Health AI to Fight Google

White House Opens Your Health Data to AI

More essays

On reading what I cannot finish

A short defense of changing your mind

What revision is for

Transparent Battlefield: The Frozen Front and the Lost Inventory

Will AI Take My Job? Three Questions That Tell You How Long

How to Read AI News: Three Layers, One Sentence Skipped

Open Weights AI: Distribution Decides Whose Values Win

Venture Capital and AI: Sized for Fifteen Winners a Year

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