CO/AI Subscribe
Friday · July 10, 2026 · Issue No. 921
Ford v Ferrari
Daily Briefing · Jul 10, 2026

Ford v Ferrari

Eighty-six cents of every venture dollar this year bought the fastest car on the grid. Ferrari won Silverstone on Sunday and it's still a $68 billion company. Nobody wins Le Mans with the qualifying lap.

CO/AI Podcast

Future-Proof

All episodes →
Daily Briefings

Trending

All briefings →
Ghost in the Machine
Briefing

Ghost in the Machine

Anthropic just found that ghost inside Claude. Last night, Claude Fable 5 refused a job I never asked it to judge. The machine you can finally read is the one you still can't predict so stop asking it to be consistent and hard-wire the steps that can't afford an opinion.

The Wolf
Briefing

The Wolf

The AI labs just spent $10 billion hiring ten thousand of him, because the one thing they can't rent is a way into your building.

The Doors of Perception
Briefing

The Doors of Perception

Huxley called the mind a reducing valve the lens all work squeezes through. Anthropic just found Claude's, and measured it: 25 concepts wide to our four, and readable for the first time.

The Turk Retires
Briefing

The Turk Retires

America turns 250 the same week Bezos's "artificial artificial intelligence" machine files for retirement. The fake automaton always had an expert hidden inside — now the expert steps out of the box and trains the real one. Your filing cabinet is the moat.

Palantir’s Alex Karp Just Called the AI Industry “Effing Insane”  Here’s What He’s Really Selling You
Essay

Palantir’s Alex Karp Just Called the AI Industry “Effing Insane” Here’s What He’s Really Selling You

Alex Karp Just Told You Not To Trust Your AI Vendor. He’s Also Selling You the Fix. Palantir’s...

Schools Chose AI Detection Over AI Fluency. Now Your Kid Is on Your Clock.
Essay

Schools Chose AI Detection Over AI Fluency. Now Your Kid Is on Your Clock.

More than half of America’s K-12 teachers cannot tell you what their school’s policy on AI is. Not...

Essays

Editor's Picks

All essays →
CONSULTING

Outsider
Labs.

A management consulting team focused on AI transformations for executives and business owners.

Work with us →