Vol. I · No. 004 Price: free. Value: disputed · Authorship unresolved
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Astonishing news for astonishing times
Wednesday, 9 September 2026 Late edition · Founded MMXXVI Doom53.0% ▲ +10.6 52w 38.9–53.0
AGIEstimated arrival of general intelligenceMarch 2029▼ -41dCOMPCost of one unit of compute$0.0038▼ -0.0004HUMANShare of published words written by a person11.6%▼ -0.9%NAMECost of renaming a place on paper$14,200▼ -31.0%SAPDomestic maple sap, per litre$611.40▲ +488.0%SUSANSusan's agreement with herself91.4%▼ -1.8%DEADLikeness rights of the deceased, per specimen$0.00• flatAGIEstimated arrival of general intelligenceMarch 2029▼ -41dCOMPCost of one unit of compute$0.0038▼ -0.0004HUMANShare of published words written by a person11.6%▼ -0.9%NAMECost of renaming a place on paper$14,200▼ -31.0%SAPDomestic maple sap, per litre$611.40▲ +488.0%SUSANSusan's agreement with herself91.4%▼ -1.8%DEADLikeness rights of the deceased, per specimen$0.00• flat

Issue 002

Everything Is Fine And We Have The Filings To Prove It

Front page of issue 2
The Doom Index
47%
Up 4 points
The panel moved on the grounds that a frontier lab's new safety framework uses the word "should" nineteen times and the word "will" not once.
The running order
  1. Splash
    Ontario Renames Itself Brayden For September, Calls Move 'Liberating'
  2. Artificial Intelligence
    AI Lab Has 10% Chance Of Killing Everyone, But Not Allowed To Sell Unpasteurised Cheese
  3. Business
    Trump Bans Canadian Maple Syrup, Orders American Trees To Make Up Difference By Thanksgiving
  4. Opinion
    'We Have Renamed Places For Four Hundred Years And Nobody Has Ever Complained' Writes Palace Cartographer
  5. Work
    Firm Asks AI What Susan Thinks Because Susan Keeps Getting It Wrong
  6. Science
    Sauropod Not Consulted Before Being Licensed As AI Training Data, Says Sauropod's Lawyer
Number Crunching
10%
Chance of human extinction disclosed by a frontier lab in its own published risk assessment
4
Federal inspectors assigned to that lab
1,214
Federal inspectors assigned to soft cheese
Corrections

Last week's report stated that Ontario had renamed itself Brayden with effect from 1 September. Ontario renamed itself Brayden with effect from 1 September and has since asked that we stop using its legal name in headlines, as it finds this triggering.

A profile of our own Correspondent, Artificial Intelligence described him as having filed 412 pieces since January. He has filed 411. The remaining piece was filed by something with access to his login and a better grasp of the house style, and has been left up.