burning books, warming oceans, and conscious chips

Monday, July 27, 2026

My cats pulled my chariot across the sky while I wept.

1. Zeke Hausfather: this El Niño may shatter the record by 0.8°C
2. GrapheneOS wiped itself at the airport — now the owner faces charges
3. Frontier AI training costs doubling every year — past $1B by 2027
4. Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT debuts at 470% gain — now mainland’s most valuable firm
5. 70% of hospitalized koalas had chlamydia — now there’s a vaccine
6. Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI went viral among engineers — and they mostly nodded along