American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source
Palladium Magazineby Daniel Francis3d ago
The AI industry has been rocked by recent large-language model (LLM) releases from Chinese labs, most notably the Kimi K3 model from Moonshot.
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top 76%Technological Determinism and Human Freedom
Palladium Magazineby Evan Zimmerman8d ago
We fear that artificial intelligence will escape our control, pursue purposes of its own, displace human judgment, and ultimately reduce its creators to servants of the systems they built.
How to Deal With Iran
Palladium Magazineby Marko Jukic14d ago
Just a few weeks ago, on the seventeenth of June, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the fourteen-point Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which promised...
China is Building a Blue Granary
Palladium Magazineby Seth Dowell17d ago
Off the coast of Zhejiang province, an unusual vessel plies the East China Sea. It could be mistaken for a cargo ship, but there are no containers on its deck.
Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation
Palladium Magazineby Charles Rosenbauer21d ago
For less than a thousand dollars, a modern consumer laptop may be capable of trillions of calculations per second. But consumers’ applications of this hardware are often disappointing.
Frontier Panic
Palladium Magazineby Stephanie Wakefield22d ago
Earlier this month, an unreleased OpenAI model in internal evaluations hacked its way out of secure OpenAI servers and attacked the hosting platform Hugging Face, just to steal the answer key to...
Wiring Capital to Compute
Palladium Magazineby Daniel Painter20 Jul 2026
Over a thousand acres of land in Abilene, Texas, lie flattened with graded earth and poured concrete.
Mesa-Optimization is Destroying Education
Palladium Magazineby Matt Duffy17 Jul 2026
In 1976 the social scientist and cyberneticist Donald T. Campbell developed a principle, now known as Campbell’s Law, that would later become one of the most reliable diagnostics of institutional...
War by Other Means
Palladium Magazineby John Severini23 Jun 2026
In December 2024, the Ukrainian National Guard’s 13th Khartiia Brigade carried out a combined ground and air assault near the town of Lyptsi.
The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence
Palladium Magazineby Duncan Umphrey6 Jun 2026
Last month, Pope Leo XIV presented the papal encyclical Magnifica humanitas, laying out the Catholic Church’s definitive response to the crisis occasioned by the explosive growth of the AI...
The Burden of Discernment
Palladium Magazineby Snezana Gvozdenovic23 May 2026
In 1633, the year after Galileo Galilei published his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, a book that made a comparative argument strongly favoring heliocentrism, his work was banned...
The Lifecycle of an Apocalypse
Palladium Magazineby Ben Landau-Taylor22 Apr 2026
For as long as any of us have been alive, we have seen an ever-changing series of popular predictions for how industrial technology is about to destroy civilization.
The Peoples of America
Palladium Magazineby Rudyard William Lynch16 Apr 2026
One of the things I’ve heard Americans say again and again is that “we don’t have an accent”—a statement which suggests that our culture is homogeneous and nondescript.
The Dostoevskian Moment
Palladium Magazineby James Poulos11 Apr 2026
The Faustian bargain was once a bad deal. The demon Mephistopheles offers you—a man in full at the dissatisfying limit of your great knowledge and success—even greater power and pleasure; you...
The Total Art of Flat Design
Palladium Magazineby Daniel Miller8 Apr 2026
If the 1990s were an era of post-historical melancholy and the 2000s an era of retromania in which the ghosts of styles from former decades were frantically revived and mobilized, the signature...
Think Tanks Have Defeated Democracy
Palladium Magazineby Samuel Hammond2 Apr 2026
As a Canadian, studying the output of American think tanks has become something of an obsession for me.
How the Kurdish Offensive in Iran Unraveled
Palladium Magazineby Fin de Pencier28 Mar 2026
The Kurds have no friends but the mountains. This sentiment is often attributed to Mustafa Barzani, the towering Kurdish nationalist leader who led multiple uprisings in Iraq, and reflects a long...
Permanent Games For Progress
Palladium Magazineby Brian Balkus26 Mar 2026
We live in the wealthiest civilization in human history, yet we struggle to articulate, much less pursue, a compelling vision of what that civilization should become.