Saturday · August 8, 2026 · Issue No. 950

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Long-form arguments about where AI is taking work, money, and power.

Slower than the briefings. Sharper than the consensus. Written by Anthony Batt and Harry DeMott.

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Long-form arguments about where AI is taking work, money, and power.

Editor's pick

Borrowed Authority

Anthropic Shipped Claude Channels. Your AI Agent Can Now Text You Back.

What Did You Do Today?

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The Species That Wasn’t Ready

Six ideas from the Musk-Dwarkesh podcast I can’t stop thinking about

The machines bought Super Bowl airtime and we rank them

The Developer Productivity Paradox

The Lobsters Are Talking

ChatGPT 5 – When Your AI Friend Gets a Corporate Makeover

Anthropic Claude 4 release

How Sam Altman just executed the tech industry’s most audacious talent heist

Google IO 2025 generative AI tools look impressive

The “AI-First” rise will define business winners through 2030

Vibe coding: The term that finally captured our AI reality

Physical AI changes everything

How Google’s Agent2Agent protocol could transform business

Can a machine out dream us? Google Gemini’s bold leap into thought

AI enters the real world

New frameworks, open-source alternatives, and specialized agents

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Labs.

Long-form arguments about where AI is taking work, money, and power.

Editor's pick

Borrowed Authority

Anthropic Shipped Claude Channels. Your AI Agent Can Now Text You Back.

What Did You Do Today?

All essays

The Species That Wasn’t Ready

Six ideas from the Musk-Dwarkesh podcast I can’t stop thinking about

The machines bought Super Bowl airtime and we rank them

The Developer Productivity Paradox

The Lobsters Are Talking

ChatGPT 5 – When Your AI Friend Gets a Corporate Makeover

Anthropic Claude 4 release

How Sam Altman just executed the tech industry’s most audacious talent heist

Google IO 2025 generative AI tools look impressive

The “AI-First” rise will define business winners through 2030

Vibe coding: The term that finally captured our AI reality

Physical AI changes everything

How Google’s Agent2Agent protocol could transform business

Can a machine out dream us? Google Gemini’s bold leap into thought

AI enters the real world

New frameworks, open-source alternatives, and specialized agents

All Signal.No Noise.

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