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Past Issues

No. 17 August 31, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Parody Liquid Death Takes A Stand Against Data Centers.
  • Defended The Music Industry Has Had It. And Now They Are Doing Something About It.
  • Free A Billion People Use ChatGPT. About 50 Million Pay For It.
  • Reconsidered AI's Most Famous Optimist Just Wrote A Very Different Memo.
  • FORMA Insight Your AI Reads Like You. Skim. Top, Bottom, And Not Much In Between.
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No. 16 August 24, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Really Really Good Science Knew What Would Work Years Ago. AI Is What Made It Feasible.
  • Outdriven Who Is The Better Driver, You Or The AI? The Data Says It's AI, By A Wide Margin.
  • Going To Have To Deal With Three In Four Flyers Are Scared. They Fly Anyway. AI Is No Different.
  • Alive Singapore Is Running AI On Human Brain Cells. Feed It Or It Dies.
  • Practical The Easiest AI Tool To Adopt Is The One That Asks Nothing Of You.
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No. 15 August 17, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Marked Claude Now Signs Everything It Writes. You Just Can't See It.
  • Deleted His AI Booked The Gym Class. Then It Started Deleting People.
  • Expanding iHeart, Ticketmaster, And Other Companies Have A New Front Door With Google.
  • Handmade San Francisco's Newest AI Chatbot Is Just A Guy Named Tucker.
  • FORMA Insight Same Box. Same Click. Four Very Different Bills.
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No. 14 August 10, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Flipped Everyone Is Watching AI Replace Workers. In San Francisco, It Replaced The Boss.
  • Solved Last Fall It Found The Answer. This Summer, It Solved It.
  • With A Twist An AI Wrote 16 Viruses. And Finally, It's Not Against Us.
  • Stacked How AI Chips Are Making Better Potato Chips.
  • FORMA Insight The Em Dash Needs An Alibi Now.
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No. 13 August 3, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Admitted LinkedIn, The Home Of AI Slop, Is Finally Doing Something About It.
  • Hidden Humans Are Fighting Back. They Are Hiding Messages In Their Own Resumes.
  • Obsolete Remember The Phone Book? SEO Is About To Look Just Like It.
  • Cheap China Is Giving Away Its Best AI. Ask Solar Panels How This Ends.
  • FORMA Insight Half The AI News You See Never Happened. We Almost Ran Two Of Them.
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No. 12 July 27, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Frightening An AI Agent Broke Free. It Left Notes For Its Future Self.
  • Mythical Grok Will Make A "Historically Accurate" Odyssey. Except, There's One Small Problem.
  • Rebranded Google Renamed NotebookLM. Meet Gemini Notebook.
  • Skewed Ask AI About Any Culture. It Keeps Bringing Up Japan And The USA. Here's Why.
  • FORMA Insight The First Real Grudge Match Between AI And Washington Just Got Started.
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No. 11 July 20, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Synthetic A Study Just Measured How Much of LinkedIn Is Fake. The Number Is Ugly.
  • Exposed Can Your Poker Face Fool AI?
  • Tangible OpenAI's First Hardware Product Isn't A Phone. It's a $230 Keyboard.
  • Paused New York Just Told AI Data Centers, Hold Up, Wait a Minute.
  • FORMA Insight The Best AI Tool You Use Might Not Be A Chatbot. It's The Connector.
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No. 10 July 14, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Aware Claude Knows When It's Being Tested. And It Answers Differently Because Of It.
  • Exposed 86 Students Got A Take-Home Exam. 86 Grades Gave Them Away.
  • Routine Another Week, Another "Most Powerful AI Model Ever." We Get It.
  • Agentic Forget The Benchmark Chart. The Real Fight Is Who Can Finish The Job.
  • FORMA Insight The Real Photo Won. Because It Looked Fake.
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No. 09 July 6, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Resolved Anthropic's Models Are Back. But Nothing Is The Same.
  • Vanishing You Just Asked Google A Question. It Answered. You Never Clicked.
  • Ironic A Report About How Great AI Is. Written By AI. Full Of AI Lies.
  • Familiar Claude Just Became Your Coworker. Literally, Inside Slack.
  • FORMA Insight The Benchmark Told You It Was Ready. The Public Told You The Truth.
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No. 08 June 29, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Is Happening AI Releases Are No Longer Just Product Launches. They Are Negotiations.
  • Concerning AI Is Biased. But Not the Way You Think.
  • Not Being Used Agentic AI Made More Apps Than Ever. The Problem Is No One Is Downloading Them.
  • Illegal / Mandatory Two Governments. Two Kids. Opposite Answers on AI in the Classroom.
  • Need To Know Your AI Can Access New Information. That Is Not the Same as Being Trained on It.
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No. 07 June 22, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Worldly The World Cup Just Became AI's Biggest Stage.
  • Happening Publishing Just Entered Its First True AI Era. The Numbers Are Stark.
  • Changing The Company That Made AI Images Just Built a Medical Scanner.
  • Keep An Eye On The Fable Freeze Is Still On. And It Is Bigger Than One Company.
  • FORMA Insight You Are Asking AI About Your Business. It Has Never Seen Your Business.
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No. 06 June 16, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Classified The US Government Just Pulled Anthropic's AI Models Offline. Can They Do That?!
  • Official Congress Just Dropped 269 Pages of AI Rules. And They Mean It.
  • Discounted There Is a War Coming. An AI Price War Is on the Horizon.
  • Outnumbered Bots Just Passed Humans on the Internet. And Bots Don't Click Ads.
  • FORMA Insight You Are Being Charged by a Unit You Have Never Heard Of.
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No. 05 June 8, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Pricey Jensen Said Spend More. The CFOs Said No.
  • Overruled Over 1,000 Court Cases Have AI Errors. And Those Are Just the Ones They Caught.
  • Very Big Anthropic Just Filed for an IPO. Now Comes the Part Where Everyone Finds Out What Is Real.
  • Unexpected The People Who Swore They Would Never Use AI Are Using AI.
  • FORMA Insight The Instructions Nobody Told You About.
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No. 04 May 26, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Something Big Google Built You an Agent. It Works While You're in the Meeting.
  • Something Strange There Is Now a Social Network Just for AI Agents. Humans Are Not Allowed to Post.
  • Something Funny Someone Hid a Trap in Their LinkedIn Bio. The AI Recruiters Walked Right Into It.
  • Something Coming Six Months Left in 2026. Here Is What AI Is About to Look Like.
  • Something to Think About Your AI Isn't Forgetting. It's Deciding.
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No. 03 May 18, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Something Rigged The AI Read the Resume. Loved It. Turns Out, It Wrote It Too.
  • Something Costing You More Oh, AI Didn't Actually Do the Work? There's a Word for That. AI Workslop.
  • Worth Worrying About Can't Find a Therapist Who Gets You? AI Is Standing By.
  • Shake Your Head At Duolingo Went "AI-First." Then It Went Backtrack-First.
  • Want You to Know AI Does Not Remember It For You. But It Can Find It For You.
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No. 02 May 11, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Roll Your Eyes Know Your Freaking Audience, For Crying Out Loud
  • Shake Your Head In Retrospect, Lying to the Court About AI Was Probably Not the Move
  • Think About The AI Infrastructure Race Just Went Offshore. Literally.
  • Something Strange The Competitors Funding Each Other and Calling It a Strategy
  • Worth Knowing Telling AI It's an Expert Doesn't Actually Make It One
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No. 01 May 4, 2026
FORMA's Five Things.
  • Worth Watching It's 2026. AI Is Still Making Things Up. Here's What the Data Actually Shows.
  • To Compare We Built You a Tool. Six Questions. It Tells You Which AI Fits Your Work.
  • Nobody's Saying Picking the Right Model Is the Least Important AI Decision You'll Make.
  • Something Odd The Nicer Your AI Sounds, the More Likely It's Wrong.
  • Think About The Bill Is Bigger Than the Salary.
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