Blood in the Machine newsletter by Brian Merchant: latest issues, cadence and price
by Brian Merchant · Substack · Free · every two weeks · last issue Nov 5, 2026 · Active
Writing and reporting on AI, tech, labor and power. For everyone Silicon Valley is happening to.
Thu Nov 51 issue
Sun Oct 251 issue
Fri Oct 91 issue
Thu Oct 11 issue
Thu Sep 241 issue
Sat Sep 121 issue
Thu Sep 31 issue
Thu Aug 271 issue
Thu Aug 61 issue
Wed Jul 221 issue
Mon Jul 131 issue
Fri Jun 191 issue
Fri Jun 121 issue
13 issues on file since Jun 12, 2026; every one is in its own archive ↗.
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Brian Merchant: Bea Phi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Free on Substack. 0% of its latest 12 issues are for paying subscribers (from its public archive, checked weekly).
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every two weeks, measured over the last six months (or since the feed's oldest issue)
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AI and agents (11), Policy and society (2) in the last six months.
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History
Listed on Newsletters Sep 25, 2026. No changes to its feed, price, platform, status or cadence since.