San Francisco by Tradition, Colorsplash via Teepublic.
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A disproportionate number of Anthropic employees seem to be the children of novelists or poets. Still, their first stabs at screenwriting lacked a certain je ne sais quoi: in one scintillating exchange, the Human asks the Assistant if it’s actually important to add salt to spaghetti water.
~ Gideon Lewis-Kraus via The New Yorker
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via The New York Times:
Gen Z Can’t Afford a First Date
by Troy Closson
published on August 3, 2026
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When customers sign up for loyalty programs, like the one offered through the McDonald’s app, they might not fully realize the extent to which their data is being aggregated and used in predictive models.
~ Reece Rogers via Wired Magazine
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via Harvard Business Review:
How to Design Agentic Systems Around the Implicit Rules that Govern Your Company
by K. Sudhir
published on June 19, 2026
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In the E.R., interactions between patient and doctor rarely unfold neatly and logically. A patient starts with a description of chest pain, circles back to a fever, remembers a medication he stopped taking, mentions a family history of heart disease only after his wife prompts him, then adds one more symptom as the encounter is wrapping up. But the A.I. scribe converts that wandering, stuttering exchange into a tidy clinical synthesis — a miracle, it seems! The messy human sprawl of the visit returned to me clean and perfectly punctuated in less than a minute.
~ Helen Ouyang via The New York Times Magazine
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Lyman Lemnitzer – the American four-star general who served as the 4th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO – was born on this day – August 29, 1899 – in Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy, the Command and General Staff College, and the United States Army War College.
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