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Meet Spiralism, the first AI religion
How it spread, plus a harmless “spore” you can test in your own chatbot
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How ChatGPT Ads Manager works
What marketers say after six months
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The EU AI Act has changed the AI industry
Article 50 sets new rules for AI content, and they matter outside Europe too
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Is AI taking jobs?
Many office workers fear AI will take their jobs. Here are the statistics without the TikTok drama: who has really lost a job to AI
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"Polycrisis era": how will the 2020s be remembered in history?
People in 1914 did not call their war the First World War. The name arrived afterwards, and so will ours
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3 costly mistakes in Meta AI: lessons for AI products
Bad design destroys trust
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The fear of AI is 2,400 years old
2,400 years ago the dangerous new technology was parchment, and the argument against it was word for word the argument against AI today
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Hidden reasoning in Claude and language prediction in the anesthetized brain
Two 2026 discoveries: one inside an AI model, one inside a human brain under anesthesia
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How I analyzed my DNA with Claude Code and Claude Science
One 23andMe raw data file and two experiments, step by step
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How to put an AI agent on your old laptop with maximum security
All you need is five distinct layers of isolation, each designed to prevent a specific and unique threat
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Prompt injection has no fix: the architectural limit of AI security
Every AI company says they're "working on" prompt injection. None of them can fix it. Here's why - explained so a non-engineer can understand
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How a Word document can hack Claude
That .docx you just uploaded to Claude? It might have forwarded your files to a hacker
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AI agents can now talk to each other without words
Ted Chiang imagined this in “Story of Your Life”, the story behind the film Arrival. Here the new language belongs to machines
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The mass Instagram hack that never happened
A real leaked database does not mean a real hack. In January almost every outlet mixed up the two
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Hi, I'm Pavel. For the last four years I've done research on disinformation and AI security with international non-profits, institutions and media brands. This newsletter covers the same topics
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