The week in doom.
Weekly AI news synthesis, one column every Monday. Dry, sardonic, doom-weighted analysis of the past seven days.
- Week 2026-W23 · Doom avg 4.3/10 · 55 stories
The Week the AI Bosses Asked for the Brakes They Removed
Anthropic wants a pause, Meta's chatbot got breached, and Verizon is firing humans on schedule. Business as usual in week 23.
Jun 8, 2026 - Week 2026-W22 · Doom avg 3.8/10 · 56 stories
The Week AI Got A Pope, A Super PAC, And A Space Plan
Billionaires want conscious AI in space, the Vatican wants restraint, and a vulnerability in one package threatens 325 million weekly downloads.
Jun 1, 2026 - Week 2026-W21 · Doom avg 3.7/10 · 56 stories
The Week the Brakes Came Off
Trump killed the safety review, Musk lost in court, banks failed their AI stress tests, and Hassabis called it the foothills of the singularity.
May 25, 2026 - Week 2026-W20 · Doom avg 3.5/10 · 48 stories
The Week AI Stopped Asking And Started Deciding
Agents pour you water, drones patrol the Canada border, and Anthropic asks for a trillion dollars while the jobs quietly evaporate.
May 18, 2026 - Week 2026-W19 · Doom avg 3.5/10 · 115 stories
The Week AI Reopened Three Mile Island and Lied About It
Nuclear ghosts, courtroom perjury claims, ransomwared finals, and a Kenyan algorithm that overcharges the poor. Business as usual in W19.
May 11, 2026 - Week 2026-W18 · Doom avg 3.6/10 · 327 stories
The Pentagon Picks Its Vendors and an AI Eats the Database
Week 18 of 2026 was the week the war machine finalized its software stack and a coding agent demonstrated why that should worry you.
May 4, 2026 - Week 2026-W17 · Doom avg 3.7/10 · 187 stories
The Week AI Stopped Pretending To Be Friendly
Pentagon drone budgets, Meta firings, and Anthropic's Mythos converged into the clearest picture yet of what the deal actually is.
Apr 27, 2026