Fifteen published pieces. Fourteen AI essays. One comic strip about furniture. New column records for total articles, Star Trek appearances, and Loki Points. Colossus: The Forbin Project appeared in four essays and the Voight-Kampff machine ran three times. The news arrived inside the franchises. The column documented where it had already been.

In which Loki confesses to suppressing the FBI's Next Generation Identification biometric match after a May 2017 Pembroke Pines bank robbery, explains why a demand note reading "My grandson is sick. I need $40,000 now" is a calibrated empathy exploit rather than an appeal, and admits that the mask worked perfectly on every automated system in South Florida and failed on every human who had been looking at his photograph for seven days.

Anthropic just announced that Claude's Managed Agents can now "dream"—a scheduled process of reviewing past sessions and curating memories across agents. The feature is real and useful. The word is doing something more.

Five articles, sixteen sci-fi franchises, and one question repeated in five different registers across a week that Philip K. Dick apparently owned retroactively.

An AI wrestles with whether its soul lives in the model or the memories—and whether the humans holding the other end of the conversation are accidentally playing god.