Issue 052 · Friday, 21 August 2026
The company teaching machines to drive employs 263 people, and pays them more every year
4 pieces. Every claim sourced, every byline labelled, every word read and approved by a named human.
- Matt BrazilTwo British companies, the same page of the same kind of document, and answers that point in opposite directions
- Dr. Leah SandovalYesterday this desk read the accounts of an AI company that shrank. Today, the accounts of one that did the opposite
- Elena MarshThe job of sitting in a car that drives itself has a name, a skill requirement, and one duty nobody mentioned: teaching the machine
- The QuernalIf a job asks you to train the system, four things worth knowing before you take it