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Thursday · July 16, 2026 · Issue No. 927
A Dollar Fifty in Late Charges
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A Dollar Fifty in Late Charges

Will Hunting priced a Harvard education at pocket change in library fines. The AI version runs twenty bucks a month, and this week Anthropic shipped the missing manual. Two things it can't ship: the desire to learn and the judgment to doubt.

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