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Newsletter · By Lennart Nacke, PhD · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Cortex Compute 002 (opens the original)

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    You pay for ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini, and four subscribers like you have sued the companies behind them for agreeing to slow down the pace of AI development. They argue that a safety pause amounts to an illegal cartel. Hear why Lennart and Vugar think the companies might come out ahead whatever the court decides.Episode AI summaryCortex Compute is where Lennart Nacke, PhD and University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, and Vugar Ibrahimov, a PhD researcher who writes about AI

  2. Issue · Sep 24, 2026

    Cortex Compute 001 (opens the original)

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    Episode 1 AI ShownotesEpisode overviewA pre-training researcher quits Anthropic and warns that AI labs are “gambling with our lives.” Within days, the biggest names in AI start calling for a slowdown. Lennart and Vugar relaunch their show as Cortex Compute and ask who gains from AI fear, why the timing lines up with an AI company IPOs, and why they rank cognitive atrophy above rogue bioweapons as the risk to watch.TakeawaysRead doomsday threads with the calendar open. Lennart notes that the “pac

  3. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    How to become an irreplaceable researcher in 2026 (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Aug 24, 2026

    12 - Why CHI rejected your paper (w/ Phoebe Toups Dugas) (opens the original)

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    This podcast episode marks the relaunch of my dormant How to Write CHI Papers podcast, now broadening into How to Write Research Papers. My guest is associate professor at Monash University and one of the CHI 2025 Papers Chairs, Phoebe Toups Dugas, a longtime friend and co-author. The conversation focuses on three threads: what removing CHI’s page limits did to paper quality, how the conference’s massive federated review system actually works, and what generative AI means for authors who sign th

  5. Issue · Aug 11, 2026

    How to build an AI Workflow You'll Actually Use (opens the original)

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