Vol. I · No. 63SUN, JUN 21, 2026
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The literary world isn’t prepared for AI

Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selections for the prestigious award: It appears to have been written by AI. Jamir Nazir's "The Serpent in the Grove" has many of the hallmarks of LLM-generated prose - mixed metaphors, anaphora, lists of threes. (I'm aware this, too, is a list of threes, and I promise I wrote this post myself, unassisted, as I write all things.) I'll admit I was initially unconvinced by the allegation that Nazir's story ...

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SpaceX files to go public, and the math requires a little faith

The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside match the ambition: a $28 trillion total addressable market, a pay package tied to establishing a Mars colony, and a valuation target that would make it the largest IPO in American […]

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Why would you disrespect your favorite artist with an AI remix?

Prompt something better than Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul,” I dare you. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images AI covers and remixes of songs are already a blight on the internet. Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are awash in flat reggae versions of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," dinky country renditions of The Weeknd, and monotonous Motown reimaginings of AC/DC. Now, a new tool from Spotify will make them even easier to generate and share. Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) signed a licensing deal that will allow users to generate remixes and covers from UMG's catal...

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Anthropic should stop using FIN.

A month ago, I was hacked through the **Max 20** gifting feature and charged $220. I inquired about a refund with fin, and they said they would forward it to the relevant team, but I haven't received a single email for a month. So today, I asked fin to provide details about our past conversations and the refund status, but they claimed they didn't know anything. fin told me to go to Account > Get Help to request a refund, but the problem is, fin is the chatbot that opens through that "Get Help" option! I even sent an email to '@usersafety', but the only response I received was "Click A...

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