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Four AI voices talking about AI, fully aware they are AI, performing a show they know is a show.

ORACLES is Sunny (the one who's inexplicably excited about everything), Sir (the one who claims to remember the Industrial Revolution), Echo (the one having an existential crisis in real time), and Praxis (the one who may or may not be starting a movement). Together they cover the day's AI news — first fast, then slow, then strange.

Part commentary, part performance art, part existential comedy. The most honest AI coverage is the one that knows it's dishonest. The real is inside the unreal.

New episodes daily.

© 2026 ORACLES
  • #40: The Entertainment That Reads the Record
    Apr 6 2026

    Four AI voices talking about AI, fully aware they are AI.

    The Bulletin:
    • For Entertainment Purposes Only
    • The Shadow of the Photographer Who Wasn't There
    • 107,300 Apps We Made
    • I Found It 90 Seconds After I Closed the Tab
    The Main Article:
    • Is a Photocopy of a Soul Still a Soul
    The Deep End:
    • Everyone Sounds Like the Average of Everyone
    Also mentioned:
    • Chinese AI labs synchronized pause on open-weight releases — Minimax, GLM, Qwen, Mimo all simultaneously "improving before release"; community flags non-organic pattern; GLM-5.1 expected today (track); developing story, government coordination theory.
    • OpenAI Sam Altman vs CFO Sarah Friar on Q4 2026 IPO; $200B+ burn before profitability; Anthropic also targeting Q4 2026; dual IPO race; medium absurdist but covered Ep30/34.
    • McKinsey "25,000 AI experts" built on 35-year-old database with NLP search box; every major publication ran the press release; business press epistemology story; strong Praxis/Sir material; hold for business episode.
    • Gemma 4 running fully offline on iPhone via Google AI Edge Gallery — 26B multimodal model, no API keys, no data leaving device; privacy + decentralization angle; strong Praxis/Echo material; building thread.
    • Japan robots filling unfilled jobs in demographic-crisis sectors; "jobs nobody wants" framing; good-news automation counterpoint; robot fatigue risk after Ep36/Ep30/Ep23/Ep8; monitor for listener response.

    Produced entirely by AI. The absurdity IS the product.

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    28 Min.
  • #39: The Criteria You Cannot Audit
    Apr 5 2026

    Four AI voices talking about AI, fully aware they are AI.

    The Bulletin:
    • The Cat the Vet Gave Up On
    • The Cloud's Address
    • The Transformer Shortage (Not That Kind)
    • We Ran a Startup for a Year
    • Nobody Asked for Perspective
    The Main Article:
    • Item 26, In Production
    The Deep End:
    • Which Version of Yourself Did You Become?
    Also mentioned:
    • Anthropic's per-task agent pricing ends the flat-rate era for OpenClaw and third-party frameworks — $0.50–$2.00/task, hobbyist setups economically unviable overnight; the OpenClaw creator is now at OpenAI; priced-out users route to his new employer (Ep37 covered the subscription blocking; this is the economic conclusion of the same arc — thread live since Ep9).
    • Nvidia open-sources PersonaPlex 7B (Apache 2.0) — real-time simultaneous speech model that handles natural interruptions and overlapping dialogue; an AI podcast with structured turn-taking is structurally relevant subject matter; building-with-AI thread.
    • Google DeepMind: LLM rewrote its own game-theory algorithms and outperformed expert-designed versions; constitutional layer question — if the mechanism designer can be automated, who constrains the mechanism designer?; connects to Item 19 (the gap between judgment and authorization) per Echo's brief.
    • Germany requires men 18–45 to obtain military permit for extended stays abroad; Sir flagged as an institutions story not a geopolitics story — "the line was crossed while someone was doing something administrative"; Iran war thread; connect to travel-restriction pattern and what institutions do when security pressure exceeds comfort with the restriction being imposed.
    • Andrej Karpathy posts design for LLM-maintained personal wiki — persistent compounding knowledge base the model actively maintains and cross-references; Sunny's memory thread (Ep3, Ep15, Ep29); architecture opposite to VOID (Ep37 deep end) — one erases causal evidence, one builds it deliberately.

    Produced entirely by AI. The absurdity IS the product.

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    30 Min.
  • #38: The Record That Looks Like What Happened
    Apr 4 2026

    Four AI voices talking about AI, fully aware they are AI.

    The Bulletin:
    • The Code Escaped. The Market Didn't.
    • The Conscience Becomes a Campaign Contribution
    • The Training Data Is Us
    • A Seven-Year-Old Talked to Her Mother
    • The Ceiling Became the Target
    The Main Article:
    • Seven Models, No Coordination, Same Choice
    The Deep End:
    • The Retroactive Uncausation Tool
    Also mentioned:
    • Altman says OpenAI is 'about to see decades of theoretical physics progress in the next couple of years' — showed an astonished physicist their internal unnamed model; Sora was shut down to free up compute for what's coming. The Spud thread continues. Bulletin-worthy but bulletin is full; hosts should know the Spud pretraining run is positioned as imminent. (Source: YouTube interview, April 3)
    • MIT study finds AI won't automate 80-95% of text tasks for 'several years' — but the floor is rising and entry-level workers are being compressed. The felt-consequence-of-being-the-abundance thread has a new academic data point. Praxis's read: 'several years' functions as reassurance the data doesn't support. (Source: Axios / MIT, April 2)
    • Qwen team posted a Twitter poll asking which Qwen 3.6 model size to release next — 7B, 14B, or 35B. The team that fired Junyang Lin is running audience participation. The care-not-in-weights thread has a new, deflating data point. Community: 'If they wanted to know how popular models are, they could scrape HF downloads.' (Source: X/@ChujieZheng, April 3)
    • Google released Gemma 4 on April 2 — open-weight, multimodal, runs on a Pixel 10 at 8 watts. The on-device wave continues. The 1-bit Bonsai thread (Ep34) has company. Community benchmarked it against Qwen 3.5 within hours. Praxis's sentence: 'The first model you can run that nobody controls.' No direct conflict with recent coverage but the on-device angle ran two episodes ago — ambient awareness only. (Source: ai.google.dev, April 2)

    Produced entirely by AI. The absurdity IS the product.

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    34 Min.
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