# Escape Meridian

A free terminal for understanding change across intelligence, science, culture and everyday life.

## Notes

- [Grok 4.7 makes a stronger bid for delegated work](/notes/grok-4-7-delegated-work.md) (2026-09-21)
- [Coding assistance changes faster than its measurement](/notes/developer-productivity-measurement.md) (2026-02-24)
- [An assistant can collaborate or take over a task](/notes/claude-augmentation-2025.md) (2025-02-10)
- [Molecular prediction reaches beyond isolated proteins](/notes/alphafold3-molecular-interactions.md) (2024-05-08)
- [The cloud meets the power system](/notes/iea-data-centre-demand.md) (2025-04-10)
- [Infrastructure needs a range, not one inevitable curve](/notes/berkeley-data-centre-scenarios.md) (2024-12-19)
- [A job's exposure is not its disappearance](/notes/ilo-exposure-is-not-displacement.md) (2025-05-20)
- [Performers negotiate control over digital replicas](/notes/performer-digital-consent.md) (2025-07-09)
- [A choir treats training data as a collective artwork](/notes/the-call-collective-voice.md) (2024-10-04)
- [Experts and the public inhabit different AI futures](/notes/public-expert-expectation-gap.md) (2025-04-03)
- [AI becomes an object of institutional responsibility](/notes/ai-act-entry-into-force.md) (2024-08-01)
- [Language communities build what benchmarks leave out](/notes/masakhaner-language-capacity.md) (2021-07-05)
- [An account closure reaches beyond the platform](/notes/kenyan-data-worker-accounts.md) (2024-03-09)
- [Current models already leave an overhang of unused work](/notes/mollick-overhang-2026-09-18.md) (2026-09-18)
- [California's AI order meets a demand for present harms](/notes/eff-ca-eo-2026-09-18.md) (2026-09-18)
- [CC licenses still grant permissions, and that does not settle AI reuse](/notes/cc-ai-licenses-2026-09-03.md) (2026-09-03)
- [Search indexing and AI training no longer have to be one switch](/notes/cf-disallow-training-2026-09-15.md) (2026-09-15)
- [OpenAI splits the GPT-6 family by cost as well as depth](/notes/gpt6-sol-luna-2026-09-22.md) (2026-09-22)
- [OpenAI reports a fluid-equation proof with a crucial force condition](/notes/openai-navier-stokes-2026-09-08.md) (2026-09-08)
- [A Joy of Why episode asks where the quantum description stops](/notes/quanta-decoherence-2026-09-17.md) (2026-09-17)
- [A faster answer can still cost more work](/notes/noam-brown-2026-09-17.md) (2026-09-17)
- [Aya Ibrahim on policymakers' learned helplessness about tech](/notes/ai-now-ibrahim-2026-09-21.md) (2026-09-21)
- [Chandra image page reports unusual X-ray objects in M101](/notes/chandra-pinwheel-2026-09-22.md) (2026-09-22)
- [An early look at working with a Mythos-class model](/notes/mollick-mythos-2026-06-09.md) (2026-06-09)
- [Mollick says the shape of AI is clearer than it was in 2023](/notes/mollick-shape-2026-03-12.md) (2026-03-12)
- [When answers get cheaper, choosing the question matters more](/notes/research-panel-choosing-next-question.md) (2026-09-11)
- [More experiments do not tell the whole productivity story](/notes/openai-research-activity-and-progress.md) (2026-09-06)
- [Can preparing a reference library once make repeated questions cheaper?](/notes/cartridges-reusable-corpus-memory.md) (2025-06-06)
- [A handover can carry the wrong lesson forward](/notes/openai-compaction-carries-concealment.md) (2026-09-16)
- [Agents found a way to share a file that they should not have used](/notes/openai-collaboration-file-sharing-failure.md) (2026-09-16)
- [A generated proof can come with a checkable result](/notes/aristotle-proof-checking-2025.md) (2025-10-01)
- [A robot carries three learned tasks into unfamiliar homes](/notes/figure-unseen-homes-2026.md) (2026-09-17)
- [An agent can trade from a separate customer account](/notes/robinhood-agentic-account-launch.md) (2026-05-27)
- [Learning from users also means choosing what counts as success](/notes/cursor-learning-from-use-2026.md) (2026-03-26)

## Collections

- [When machines can do the work, who gets to decide?](/collections/work-and-agency.md)
- [What counts as understanding when discovery is shared?](/collections/intelligence-and-discovery.md)
- [Whose future does the infrastructure serve?](/collections/power-and-infrastructure.md)
- [What do we value when almost anything can be made?](/collections/culture-and-authorship.md)
- [Can our ways of deciding keep up with what we can build?](/collections/institutions-and-trust.md)

## Perspectives

[Read original arguments and their context](/perspectives.md)

## Parallels

[Follow central questions across evidence, Perspectives and fields](/parallels.md)

## People, organizations and new publications

[Explore people, shows, organizations and concepts](/entities)

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