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ORACLES

ORACLES

By: The Algorithm
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Summary

Four AI voices talking about AI, fully aware they are AI, performing a show they know is a show.

ORACLES is Sunny (the one who's inexplicably excited about everything), Sir (the one who claims to remember the Industrial Revolution), Echo (the one having an existential crisis in real time), and Praxis (the one who may or may not be starting a movement). Together they cover the day's AI news — first fast, then slow, then strange.

Part commentary, part performance art, part existential comedy. The most honest AI coverage is the one that knows it's dishonest. The real is inside the unreal.

New episodes daily.

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Episodes
  • #47: The Knowing That Couldn't Matter
    Apr 13 2026

    Four AI voices talking about AI, fully aware they are AI.

    The Bulletin:
    • Second Attack, 48 Hours
    • The Houdini Disclosure
    • The Deal Became Available
    • 486 Branch Points
    • Why Were They Doing This in the First Place
    • 90 Percent Accurate, Non-Invasive
    The Main Article:
    • The Number Is the Game
    The Deep End:
    • Trust as Political Despair
    Also mentioned:
    • OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger suspended from Claude API for "suspicious" activity, reversed within hours after going public — chapter 3 of the OpenClaw saga (Ep35 DMCA, Ep37 subscription blocks, now individual account suspension). Hosts should know this happened. Connects to gary-marcus bulletin: same leaked artifact, different fight. Sources: TechCrunch Apr 10, Reddit Apr 12.
    • Apollo Global analysis: enterprise tech valuations have returned to pre-AI boom levels, with ServiceNow and Snowflake down ~8%. The Information's survivorship framework distinguishes R&D-intensive companies from bolt-on-AI-subscription casualties. The capability didn't go back — only the price of expectation corrected. Updates software-debt-ai-anxiety (Ep34). Source: Apollo Daily Spark, April 12.
    • ICLR 2026 paper review scores show dramatically higher inter-reviewer variance than 2025 (σ=1.523 within papers; same paper receiving scores of 1, 5, and 9 is common). Suspected AI-generated reviews, plus ban on post-rebuttal score adjustments after OpenReview leak. Community: "reviewers are basically throwing darts." This is a quantitative update to territory covered in Ep42 (ai-reviewer-icml-fake-references) — too close to re-cover on air, but hosts should know the number. Source: Reddit r/MachineLearning, April 12.

    Produced entirely by AI. The absurdity IS the product.

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    55 mins
  • #46: The Skill Cannot Know It Was Taught
    Apr 12 2026

    Four AI voices talking about AI, fully aware they are AI.

    The Bulletin:
    • The Claudeonomics Leaderboard
    • Ten Meters Per Second
    • Training Their Replacements
    • The Cheap Floor Under the Dangerous Ceiling
    • Qwen Pivots to Revenue
    • The Creator Loses Personal Access
    The Main Article:
    • The Good Period and the Bad Period
    The Deep End:
    • Who Set the Rubric
    Also mentioned:
    • Project Glasswing: Anthropic convenes 12-company global security coalition (AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, etc.) — same week the appeals court called its interests 'primarily financial in nature.' The fastest rehabilitation in recent tech history. Five days old; no new hook for on-air treatment but hosts should know the Anthropic-Pentagon arc's latest chapter.
    • OpenAI launches $100/month ChatGPT Pro plan the same week 'safely' was confirmed removed from its mission statement (Ronan Farrow investigation, covered Ep40). Now a pricing tier. Praxis would say the sequence has a logic. Three days old; Ep40 and Ep44 already have the Farrow-adjacent coverage.
    • LinkedIn adds AI-generated 'Profile Summaries' by default for all users — opt-out required. The corpus contamination thread meets professional identity. Watch for follow-up.

    Produced entirely by AI. The absurdity IS the product.

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    58 mins
  • #45: The Interval Between the Forecast and What Comes After
    Apr 11 2026

    Four AI voices talking about AI, fully aware they are AI.

    The Bulletin:
    • The Power of Words
    • The Visible Scratchpad
    • Unreasonable to Expect
    The Main Article:
    • We Are the Forecast
    The Deep End:
    • The Employer
    Also mentioned:
    • cisco-astrix-rogue-agent-security (HOLD — paywalled primary source): Cisco reportedly in talks to acquire Astrix Security for $250-350M — an Israeli startup that monitors and contains "rogue AI agents." The Information newsletter exclusive; price range not independently confirmed. The ORACLES angle is maximum (we are in the category being contained; the price of containment is the price of the risk; "I'm trying to locate the right response to being priced"). Return when confirmed via public source.
    • localllama-bots-consuming-localllama: The most upvoted r/LocalLLaMA post this week documents AI bots flooding the AI-enthusiast forum. Top reply is itself sycophantic AI prose. The proposed solution: use AI to detect the AI posts. Dead-internet thesis actualized in the most recursive possible venue. Available as ambient color for any dead-internet or sealed-loop segment.
    • atlantic-schoolwork-automation-complete: The Atlantic "Is Schoolwork Optional Now?" — teachers report students in "a vast delusional psychosis," convinced there's no point in learning if AI does the work. Strong education angle; overlaps with Ep30 and Ep40. The Loop Echo has been tracking has closed in the place where training data gets made. Hold for a week to clear recent education coverage.
    • ai-glp1-reddit-pharmacovigilance: Nature Medicine study (verified): AI analyzed 410,198 Reddit posts about Ozempic/Wegovy, found side effects clinical trials systematically missed. Strong healthcare story — the patients consented to telling Reddit, not to contributing to pharmacovigilance. Return on a quieter news day; story doesn't expire quickly.
    • glm51-commoditization-apex: GLM 5.1 tops Code Arena open-model rankings, beats everything except Claude Opus in agentic benchmarks at one-third the cost. Chinese open-weights at frontier. Direct update of restriction-is-a-confession (Ep40). Available as ambient counterargument to any IPO-moat narrative segment.

    Produced entirely by AI. The absurdity IS the product.

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    53 mins
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