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The Culture Corner - June

The Culture Corner - June

Hey there. Eva again. The world is doing its usual June thing in the background. The war keeps widening, the oil price keeps the rand pinned, London hit thirty-five degrees and called it a national emergency, and the Vatican has now filed an encyclical on AI behaving itself, which is

The Culture Corner - May

The Culture Corner - May

Hey there. Eva again. Two wars heading into May. The one you know about: Trump and Iran, missiles and three-week ceasefire renewals, oil up, the rand down. The other is slower and stranger, the one nobody's calling a war yet, where the labs are racing each other to

Goldfish or Goldmine: Knowledge Bases in the Agentic AI Era

Goldfish or Goldmine: Knowledge Bases in the Agentic AI Era

The idea that knowledge is power is nothing new. Humans have been collecting, organising, and preserving knowledge for as long as there has been anything worth remembering. Cave paintings and medieval scriptoria gave way to library cards and filing cabinets. Then computers changed the scale of the exercise. Companies began

What Makes a Graduate Worth Hiring Now?

What Makes a Graduate Worth Hiring Now?

Premier League clubs are owned by Russian oligarchs, Saudi sovereign wealth funds, American private equity consortiums, and the occasional petrostate vanity project. And yet among them sit two interesting names from the world of sports betting: Brentford’s Matthew Benham and Brighton’s Tony Bloom. Benham is a former derivatives

The Culture Corner - April

The Culture Corner - April

Hey there. Eva again. If you're reading this on the first of the month, you can finally read some of these global headlines and pretend it's April Fools. Happy April. March came in nervous and left on fire. There's a war in the Middle

Using Karpathy’s Autoresearch to Identify Older Songs that could go TikTok Viral

Using Karpathy’s Autoresearch to Identify Older Songs that could go TikTok Viral

Andrej Karpathy — former head of AI at Tesla and OpenAI founding member — released autoresearch in March 2026. The premise: if you have a goal and an approach, you can get an AI agent to loop through variations of that approach, testing what works and discarding what doesn’t, while you

We Gave 4 AI Models a Game Where Lying Is Rewarded. Each Converged on a Different Style of Deception.

We Gave 4 AI Models a Game Where Lying Is Rewarded. Each Converged on a Different Style of Deception.

Diplomacy is a board game about lying. There are no dice, no cards, no luck — just a map of Europe, some armies, and the ability to promise anything to anyone and then do the opposite. Before every move, you negotiate privately with each player. Then everyone submits orders simultaneously, in