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2026 Reading list (updated as we go)

“The loop looks like this: a human poses a question; a model proposes candidates; a verifier filters the candidates; a human curates what survives. Round and round. What Stappers and Claude did is not fundamentally different in shape from what Tao and Lean are doing, or what the GNoME pipeline does in materials science, or what AlphaFold did for protein structure. The shape is the same. The loop does the discovery.
https://blog.apiad.net/p/ai-is-doing-something-weird-to-science

Magnifica Humanitas https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

“Claude’s Constitution : our vision for Claude’s character” : https://www.anthropic.com/constitution

Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware https://reticulum.network/

European Digital Wallet: The Normalization of Systemic Risk : https://www.eclaireur.eu/p/podcast-european-digital-wallet-the

Github compromised : https://www.aikido.dev/blog/github-breached-vs-code-extension
https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/github-investigating-teampcp-claimed.html

“Il modello linguistico è una cuoca che ha letto tutti i ricettari del mondo e ha cucinato un sacco di volte, ma non ha mai mangiato” https://koselig.substack.com/p/koselig-217-ne-fatine-ne-pappagalli

Apple declares war to ChatGPT Atlas ?

Extract structured records from any file — PDFs, contracts, photos, receipts, scans, images. Filter, aggregate, and query with API, SDK, or MCP. No templates. No layout rules. https://sifter.run/

Latest Linux LPE, 1 hour of AI work on linux crypto api ..
https://copy.fail/

The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness https://deepmind.google/research/publications/231971/

Right to repair https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement

Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend. https://www.hollandtech.net/claude-is-not-your-architect/

Developers vs. Users perspective

Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/

Claude’s Cycles, Don Knuth, Stanford Computer Science Department
(28 February 2026; revised 16 March 2026)
Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6— Anthropic’s hybrid reasoning model that had been released three weeks earlier! https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf

The adtech world is preparing for #aifirst internet : https://github.com/IABTechLab/CoMP/blob/dev/CoMP-1.0.md

The Open Licensing Standard for AI Crawlers – Giving publishers a voice and AI a smarter path forward — beyond scraping vs. paywalls to balanced collaboration https://peekthenpay.org/#how-it-works expect one of these new standards per month for the next months.

How AI internet scraping is evolving, current techniques used :
– Direct HTTP Crawlers (Traditional Crawlers) : GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Google-Extended, Bytespider, Amazonbot, Applebot-Extended, CCBot
– Cloud Browser Infrastructure (Browser-as-a-Service) : Browserbase, Hyperbrowser
– Web Scraping & Data Extraction Platforms : Firecrawl, Apify, Zyte
– Browser-driven web agents : Comet (Perplexity), Dia (The Browser Company)
– Real-Time Fetchers (On-Demand) : ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-User, Perplexity-User

Tollbit state of the bots : https://tollbit.com/bots/25q2/

Really simple licencing : The open content licensing standard
for the AI-first Internet https://rslstandard.org/

Vibe Coding Without System Design is a Trap : https://www.focusedchaos.co/p/vibe-coding-without-system-design-is-a-trap