Reading List 06/20/26

A new housing bill, General Motors joining the grid-scale battery game, skepticism about data center delays, solid-state air conditioning, and more.

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Canary Media

Microreactor startup Valar Atomics raises $1B

Valar, which has been called “the Trump administration’s favorite nuclear startup,” faces a steep path to realizing its vision — even with a giant funding…

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Outside Magazine

First Look: The Amflow TL Carbon

This do-it-all SUV of an e-bike goes wherever you want to pedal, with whatever load you want to take there The post First Look: The Amflow TL Carbon appeared first on Outside Online.

elessard·Aug 5, 2026

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Artforum

From Medusa to Nvidia: On the Algorithm’s Primal Scene

Tracing the “godly, biological, and machinic” origins of contemporary computation

Samuel Wilken·Aug 5, 2026

Canary Media

Massachusetts embraces backyard homes as housing and climate solution

The state needs more housing, fast. ADUs offer a path forward — and their compact, sometimes all-electric designs offer lower energy bills and carbon…

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Hyperallergic

AI Companies Are Pulping Our Humanity

The recent revelation about Anthropic’s systematic digitization and destruction of out-of-print books portends a rapacious future, one where soulless LLMs swell while the shelves starve.

Ed Simon·Aug 3, 2026

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The Conversation

SpaceX aims to use rockets to quickly transport cargo across the Earth and into orbit – moves that would expand the global cargo system

Point-to-point rocket delivery could cut down on transportation times. But engineers will need to figure out how to integrate rockets into current transportation systems.

Koki Ho, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology·Aug 5, 2026