Mary Bush
From the journal — 6 pieces by this author
- September2026
- 8minSeptember 10The Stack
The Observer's Position: How Anthropic Is Preparing for a Trillion-Dollar IPO
The selling of expectations has reached a new level: artificial intelligence has learned to inflate its own price with uncommon skill. We break down the anatomy of the year's most talked-about listing and show how trillions of dollars appear inside a closed ecosystem of tech giants
By Mary Bush
- 7minSeptember 1The Craft
The Confident Average
Artificial intelligence doesn't kill creativity. It simply strips out everything alive in it: error, chance, noise.
By Mary Bush
- August2026
- 8minAugust 26The Stack
What Feeds the Dragon: AI Is Buying the Data of Dead Companies
The open web ran out. Now AI is shopping the bankruptcy auctions
By Mary Bush
- July2026
- 7minJuly 20The Method
NLP Is Back. Now Its Victims Are Neural Networks
Half a century ago, two Californians figured out how to control people through language. Today the same thing is being done to neural networks — and they call it a profession
By Mary Bush
- June2026
- 9minJune 12The Craft
The New Female Intelligence
Women have been writing prompts their whole lives — explaining, reframing, iterating. A personal essay on emotional labor, AI, and why soft skills turned out to be the most powerful ones of all.
By Mary Bush
- 8minJune 2The Stack
Gender Bias in AI: Why Language Models Speak in a Male Voice
How every language model ended up speaking in the same calm, masculine voice, and why hundreds of millions of women hear that voice today
By Mary Bush
