Israel is intentionally killing journalists. Everything you have seen from inside has come from Palestinian journalists who live there. Jane Ferguson spent fifteen years in Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan watching them close and realized the foreign bureaus are not coming back. So she built what replaces them. Her platform, Noosphere, lets field reporters publish straight to the public with no network in between.

Can we teach AIs to be ethical and safe? At least 100 of them are on your phone right now, watching you and learning from you every day. De Kai helped build this field, and he calls them our artificial children. The AI pioneer explains why regulating AI companies matters but won't be enough, why open-source models running on a laptop are about to blindside the biggest players, and what will happen when AI unavoidably learns without huge, expensive data centers.

The Supreme Court just heard the case that decides whether communities can sue Big Oil for the cost of extreme weather. Justice Alito recused himself, so a 4–4 tie leaves Boulder County’s lawsuit alive. David Fenton comments on the warnings that these suits could bankrupt the oil companies, why the tobacco cases are the right comparison, and why nobody gave those a chance either until a jury saw what the companies knew.