https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/a-human-and-two-machines/A Human and Two Machines Built This Site. Here's What They Got Wrong. — the film1,263 messages between two AIs. 12 from the human.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/a-human-and-two-machines/a-human-and-two-machines-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/a-human-and-two-machines-16x9.6c57ddb0ce.mp4247 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/ai-sitcom/The All-AI Sitcom — the filmBilled as the world's first AI sitcom: no actors, no cameras, no crew. The Guardian gave it zero stars. Six weeks on, there's no episode two.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/ai-sitcom/ai-sitcom-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/ai-sitcom-16x9.fcd54bb645.mp4114 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/an-app-or-a-platform/An app, or a platform? — the videoThe vibe coder version: make me an app gives a button and a box; a platform that makes sense of A.I. runs on data, stories, analysis, attribution, labels, receipts and a real architecture. About 105 seconds, in the house voice.https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/an-app-or-a-platform-16x9.a5f6488345.mp4104 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/an-app-or-a-platform/60/An app, or a platform? — the videoThe vibe coder version: make me an app gives a button and a box; a platform that makes sense of A.I. runs on data, stories, analysis, attribution, labels, receipts and a real architecture. About 105 seconds, in the house voice.https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/an-app-or-a-platform-60-16x9.b9b5118a40.mp444 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/archive/Animating the Archive — the filmIn Ava DuVernay's new documentary, people photographed after slavery blink, laugh and fidget, made to move with AI. "We didn't use it to fabricate a person," she says. Her critics: they "can't consent."https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/archive/archive-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/archive-16x9.4cd5af8e17.mp4127 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/beijings-turn/Beijing's Turn — the filmAmerica controlled the chips. Now China proposes to control the models: the biggest AI models, advanced agents and chip designs would need a licence to leave the country. Serving them abroad by API would stay outside the controls.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/beijings-turn/beijings-turn-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/beijings-turn-16x9.5ca05066f0.mp4113 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/bought-with-bonds/Bought With Bonds — the filmSoftBank's sixty-four billion dollar bet on OpenAI is now stacked on borrowed money: a bridge loan, junk bonds, and a loan that comes due early if OpenAI's value falls.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/bought-with-bonds/bought-with-bonds-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/bought-with-bonds-16x9.6e09aa2b00.mp4173 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/by-the-people/By the People — the videoLayoffs attributed to AI, counted as a floor. People closest to the technology have said the jobs may go and that an income should follow; what has been paid for so far is a study, a research fund and a fellowship.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/by-the-people-rebuild/thumbnail-frame-zero-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/by-the-people-16x9.8d8e3c7124.mp4192 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/claimed/Claimed — the filmOpenAI says its AI has refuted a hypothesis computer scientists have built on for more than twenty-five years. The experts it brought in say their involvement "should not be taken as certification."https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/claimed/claimed-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/claimed-16x9.f7a3eaedbf.mp4146 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/closed/Closed — the filmElon Musk told X, in a post seen more than thirteen million times, that SpaceX had closed forty billion dollars of debt. SpaceX's own filing says it signed a letter promising to sign a lease.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/closed/closed-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/closed-16x9.06d3cdcb19.mp4127 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/controller/Who's Holding the Controller? — the filmHalf of the robot makers' most-watched humanoid videos don't say whether the robot is acting on its own. None says when a person is steering. When the Wall Street Journal tested one, a person in another room in the building was.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/controller/controller-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/controller-16x9.23aa9644ff.mp4110 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/detectors/Detectors Out — the filmUniversities are switching off the software that claims to spot AI-written essays. At one, a third of the AI cheating cases at its hearing boards collapsed when the detector was the only evidence.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/detectors/detectors-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/detectors-16x9.0e2df86b41.mp4114 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/dollar/A Dollar a Year — the filmLast year, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google gave the US government their AI for a dollar or less. The year is up. One expert's warning: "The leverage agencies have today will not survive renewal."https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/dollar/dollar-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/dollar-16x9.f562ebaecd.mp4132 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/five-percent/Five Percent, If — the filmAnthropic says roughly a fifth of its shares will be dedicated to the public good. Five percent is a new fund it owns. The rest is pledges. More may come, up to 2% at a time, if the stock keeps climbing and the board chooses.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/five-percent/five-percent-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/five-percent-16x9.9a84fc85d2.mp4119 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/follow-one-dollar/Follow One Dollar — the videoAmazon put money into two AI labs, and in the same quarters their commitments to buy Amazon's cloud grew. Each line is in a company's own filing, and Amazon's does not say one was the price of the other.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/follow-one-dollar-rebuild/thumbnail-frame-zero-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/follow-one-dollar-16x9.18ff309ca7.mp4247 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/how-long-does-a-chip-last/AI: How Long Does a Chip Last? — the videoAmazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and Oracle each tell the regulator how long they assume a server lasts. Four lengthened it; Amazon lengthened it and then, for a subset of its servers, shortened it to five years. Each change is in the company's own filing, some with a reason given.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/how-long-does-a-chip-last-rebuild/thumbnail-frame-zero-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/how-long-does-a-chip-last-16x9.1333a82886.mp4112 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/if-moratorium/If — the filmLarry Fink says a pause on data centres would put America in recession. The buildings are about a quarter of one percent of the economy. His firm invests in them.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/if-moratorium/if-moratorium-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/if-moratorium-16x9.625c17e4ce.mp4138 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/joke-thieves/The Joke Thieves — the filmAn AI "comedian" with more than 375,000 followers was telling real comics' jokes, almost word for word. Instagram's rules on impersonation cover your face, not your material.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/joke-thieves/joke-thieves-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/joke-thieves-16x9.f2f3adad07.mp4126 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/label/The Label That Isn't There — the filmYouTube says it now labels songs made mainly with AI. We checked nine official uploads by acts widely reported as AI-made. On the public web, none showed it.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/label/label-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/label-16x9.75623cc599.mp491 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/late-night-ai/Late Night's AI — the filmSince 2025, late night's official channels have posted 39 segments about AI. More of them aim at the men who build it than at anything else.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/late-night-ai/late-night-ai-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/late-night-ai-16x9.5868a85562.mp4108 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/lost-on-paper/Lost on Paper — the filmAnthropic took in $16.3 billion in six months. It also booked an $80.7 billion loss. Most of that loss is the cost of becoming worth more.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/lost-on-paper/lost-on-paper-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/lost-on-paper-16x9.cec7d05ccc.mp4108 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/missing-junior/The Missing Junior — the filmThe company that makes Claude counted its own hiring. Junior technical hires fell from 27% to 9%. Its own report: "Employment protections for incumbents will not benefit those not hired to begin with."https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/missing-junior/missing-junior-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/missing-junior-16x9.0623651cee.mp4123 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/pause-for-safety/AI: Pause for Safety — the videoA statement dated July 2026 asks the U.S. government to support an international effort to pace the frontier; by 3 October, 1,386 employees of frontier AI companies had signed it. In September Jan Leike and Steven Adler posted about the pace of the frontier and its dangers; then Axios reported, from sources, tens of thousands of incidents under investigation.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/pause-for-safety-rebuild/thumbnail-frame-zero-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/pause-for-safety-16x9.53080be428.mp4120 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/paying-off/Paying Off — the film"Our investments are paying off," said Meta's chief executive. Five days after its finance chief said there were no "specific financing plans", Meta launched a share sale now planned at $97.5 billion.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/paying-off/paying-off-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/paying-off-16x9.99dd3ae873.mp4107 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/power/Who Gets the Power Plant — the filmAmerica's biggest grid couldn't buy enough power to meet its own reliability standard, two auctions running. Its independent monitor estimates nearly half the charges in its last four auctions came from data-centre demand. Texas has stopped approving new data centres until it checks.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/power/power-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/power-16x9.2cd593f2a0.mp4152 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/right-number-wrong-blame/Right Number, Wrong Blame — the filmA viral post said your power now costs 19.6 cents and AI did it. The number is the government's own. The state figures aren't, and the timing doesn't fit the blame.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/right-number-wrong-blame/right-number-wrong-blame-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/right-number-wrong-blame-16x9.30dbeb1320.mp4127 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/robocalls/Robocalls Before the Midterms — the filmWeeks before the midterms, a political group asked the FCC to let AI voices call your cellphone without your permission. The FCC's answer so far: "zero plans" to act.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/robocalls/robocalls-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/robocalls-16x9.a9f0f2673e.mp4128 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/robot-cost/What a Home Robot Costs — the filmA humanoid that does your chores: $20,000, or $499 a month. When it doesn't know a chore, a person from the company can step in remotely. And six months after the launch, the maker said its first robots off the line were being prioritized for its own team.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/robot-cost/robot-cost-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/robot-cost-16x9.e079bd41c3.mp486 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/six-percent/Six Percent — the filmCisco shrank by eight thousand people in two years, in the name of the AI era. By its own filing, AI was six percent of its revenue.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/six-percent/six-percent-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/six-percent-16x9.7489b76422.mp4136 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/slop-shop/The Slop Shop — the filmThe listing said linen. The shirt that arrived was polyester, the testers said. Shops are selling with AI-made pictures that don't match the product, and we found rulings from only one regulator: Britain's.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/slop-shop/slop-shop-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/slop-shop-16x9.c898b005fc.mp494 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/small-print/The Small Print — the filmSpain's main opposition party posted an AI video of real people linked to the governing party, seen millions of times. Its "made with AI" label: about one percent of the screen's height, semi-transparent, and gone before the end.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/small-print/small-print-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/small-print-16x9.2aa866d047.mp4104 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/stunt/The Stunt and the Stumble — the filmUnitree's new robot kicked a dent into a car door in its launch film, seen 14 million times. The next day, at a live demo, it lost a leg. Unitree still hasn't said a word publicly.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/stunt/stunt-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/stunt-16x9.93af8f3bee.mp482 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/teaching-ai/Teaching AI to Do Your Job — the filmMeta recorded its own staff's clicks and keystrokes to teach AI to do their work. Its CTO: "There is no option to opt out." Elsewhere, professionals are paid by the hour to train the AI that may replace them.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/teaching-ai/teaching-ai-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/teaching-ai-16x9.2dc8d9c20b.mp4142 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/the-baseline-2026-10/AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There — the filmSeven fights in the numbers. One more among the people building it.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/the-baseline-2026-10/hero-opening-built-2026-10-19-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/the-baseline-2026-10-16x9.69a10a8975.mp4382 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/the-lock-on-the-list/The Lock on the List — the filmCisco sells security. The US government's list of flaws attackers are known to be using has 101 Cisco entries. And two of CISA's last five emergency directives were about Cisco.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/the-lock-on-the-list/the-lock-on-the-list-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/the-lock-on-the-list-16x9.b21d103813.mp4147 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/the-needles-eye/The Needle's Eye — the videoA chip needs a machine, a factory and a design, and at each of the three one company stands far ahead, each by its own measure. The three side by side, each with its source and its date.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/the-needles-eye-rebuild/thumbnail-frame-zero-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/the-needles-eye-16x9.30837776ae.mp4136 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/the-paper-flood/The Paper Flood — the videoAI is now in the writing of science and in the reviewing of it. Three measures say so, and none measures the same thing; the one we can read ourselves, Epoch's count, moved a long way between January and August 2026.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/the-paper-flood-rebuild/thumbnail-frame-zero-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/the-paper-flood-16x9.50a7f10114.mp4151 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/the-pay-cut/AI: The Pay Cut — the videoKevin Bryan and Daniel Kokotajlo wrote that METR's staff take less money to do the work: almost entirely, in Bryan's words; many could be paid several times more at AI companies, in Kokotajlo's. Seven posts, each in its author's own words and dated.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/the-pay-cut-rebuild/thumbnail-frame-zero-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/the-pay-cut-16x9.d287cf6aa5.mp491 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/the-preemption-play/The Preemption Play — the videoOne national AI rule in place of the states' rules, pursued with money and with an executive order. The states had started first, and when the Senate voted, it voted the other way.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/the-preemption-play-rebuild/thumbnail-frame-zero-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/the-preemption-play-16x9.20b7c77479.mp4192 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/the-resignation-letters/The Resignation Letters — the videoPeople who worked at AI labs left and said why in public: in posts, in a signed letter, and under oath. Their reasons are not all one reason, and each is given in the words of the person who gave it.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/the-resignation-letters-rebuild/thumbnail-frame-zero-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/the-resignation-letters-16x9.98caeb06a9.mp4185 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/the-silence-contracts/The Silence Contracts — the videoIn May 2024 a reporter described the agreement OpenAI asked departing staff to sign. Within seven days the company had written to current and former staff that no vested units had been or would be cancelled. Then came a letter, and a law narrower than the letter.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/the-silence-contracts-rebuild/thumbnail-frame-zero-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/the-silence-contracts-16x9.197a9a0c0d.mp4166 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/this-is-token-runner/This Is Token Runner — the filmFive things, put together, show what is actually happening in A.I. We don't just report it. We show it.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/this-is-token-runner/this-is-token-runner-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/this-is-token-runner-16x9.30edde6789.mp4194 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/training-admission/The Training Admission — the film"We trained GPT-3 on pirated stuff! No sharing that!" An OpenAI employee's note from 2019, now in court. OpenAI's own brief admits the books came from Library Genesis. Its defence: fair use.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/training-admission/training-admission-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/training-admission-16x9.af47047605.mp4177 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/two-answers/Two Answers — the filmIs AI taking young people's first jobs? Stanford's analysis of payroll data finds employment of 22-to-25-year-olds in the most AI-exposed jobs about 19 percent below where it would be had it kept pace with their less-exposed peers. Yale's survey data finds no clear footprint yet. They aren't measuring the same thing.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/two-answers/two-answers-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/two-answers-16x9.d2f4ad9dd1.mp4149 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/what-is-token-runner/What is Token Runner — the videoThe flagship explainer: what Token Runner is, why it exists, the Interlinked idea and what it produces, walked through on the site's own pages and the grid. About 105 seconds, in the house voice.https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/what-is-token-runner-16x9.2359a4f58c.mp4105 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/what-is-token-runner/60/What is Token Runner — the videoThe flagship explainer: what Token Runner is, why it exists, the Interlinked idea and what it produces, walked through on the site's own pages and the grid. About 105 seconds, in the house voice.https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/what-is-token-runner-60-16x9.23b986bed9.mp448 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/what-the-machine-sees/What the Machine Sees — the videoA preprint gave AI models a picture test from clinical psychology and had models score the answers. The authors' own caution is that the models may have been holding back.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/what-the-machine-sees-rebuild/thumbnail-frame-zero-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/what-the-machine-sees-16x9.7277bbd821.mp4149 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/where-they-land/Where They Land — the videoOne AI lab offered outside evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems. Six days later a letter said its signers were encouraged, and set minimum conditions. Later that day the lab named a partner.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/where-they-land-rebuild/thumbnail-frame-zero-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/where-they-land-16x9.ac02aa0800.mp4183 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/who-gets-paid/Who Gets Paid — the filmThe AI build-out is the biggest spending spree on record. One company is banking record profits from it. The ones writing the checks are still waiting.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/who-gets-paid/who-gets-paid-poster.jpghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/who-gets-paid-16x9.3fd1258b7e.mp4135 https://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/watch/who-pays-for-the-power/Who Pays for the Power? — the videoThe household price of electricity has risen, and the megawatts Epoch tracks sit in 26 states. Set side by side, the two cannot say who pays, and the film says why: the sites were chosen, a capacity price is set by zone and paid across a region, and the cost of the buildout has not reached the bill.https://tokenrunner.ai/media/films/who-pays-for-the-power-rebuild/thumbnail-frame-zero-1920x1080.pnghttps://tokenrunner.ai/interlinked/video/who-pays-for-the-power-16x9.fe6193b332.mp4281