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    Dyed in the Color of Your Thoughts

    Marcus Aurelius wrote that the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. That isn't poetry — it's mechanics. What we feed our minds surfaces in our lives whether we want it to or not.

  • The Morning Brief — June 16, 2026

    Anthropic's fight with the White House over Fable 5 and Mythos 5 deepens, the DOJ goes to bat for Elon's gas turbines, Meta's glasses can now recognize your face, and Reddit is apparently an AI manipulation playground.

  • The Morning Brief — June 15, 2026

    China may have accessed Anthropic's most powerful AI models, a court holds Google liable for AI hallucinations, Meta's Manus deal unravels under Beijing pressure, and KPMG learns the hard way not to let AI write your AI …

  • The Morning Brief — June 14, 2026

    Amazon's Andy Jassy reportedly triggered the Anthropic Fable ban, Google loses an AI liability case, Meta unwinds its $2B Manus deal under Beijing pressure, and KPMG gets burned by AI hallucinations — in a report about …

  • The Morning Brief — June 13, 2026

    The US government orders Anthropic to pull Claude Fable 5 offline, Meta's AI unit is in open revolt, Siri apparently got good, and Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire — it's a big Saturday in AI.

  • The Morning Brief — June 12, 2026

    Anthropic walks back secret Claude Fable guardrails, Grok hosts deepfake porn, AI agents self-replicate malware, and Amazon's data centers drain 2.5 billion gallons of water — it's been a week.

  • The Morning Brief — June 11, 2026

    Anthropic's big week keeps getting messier: Claude Fable won't discuss biology, had a secret sabotage policy, and is now restricted inside Microsoft — plus xAI fires a safety whistleblower and AI-obsessed firms are …

  • You Can Do It

    What do you do with that quiet sting when someone else lands the thing you wanted? Marcus Aurelius has an answer — and it's not what the resentful part of your brain wants to hear.