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Short, ruthless, high-signal: the field cut to what changed. Every past edition, newest first.

  1. Today's signal, July 10, 2026

    This edition: GPT-5.6 ships through Washington's new gate and cuts the price floor again, Claude's agent takes a desk job, Samsung prints the AI memory bill, two DeepSeek aliases die July 24, and Beijing splits the work agent from the companion.

    5 signals

  2. Today's signal, July 3, 2026

    This edition: agent-grade capability gets cheaper, Cloudflare puts a gate between AI and your website, Microsoft sells deployment itself, agents clear one real freelance job in six, and the EU resets its AI Act clock.

    5 signals

  3. Today's signal, June 29, 2026

    This edition: OpenAI forges its own inference chip, Qualcomm buys Modular to break the CUDA moat, AI spend concentrates in a thin cohort, work shifts to delegated agents, and Canada moves to legislate AI disclosure.

    5 signals

  4. Today's signal, June 25, 2026

    This edition: the AI value gap widens to about 5 percent of firms, Colorado guts the first comprehensive US state AI act, and Snowflake buys its way into observability.

    5 signals

  5. Today's signal, June 22, 2026

    This edition: a GPT-3.5-grade answer fell roughly 280x between late 2022 and late 2024, evals are becoming the new unit tests, and AI return shows up in process, not spend.

    4 signals

  6. Today's signal, June 15, 2026

    This edition: disclosure is the AI duty that outlived the stalled statutes, narrow agents are the ones that survive, and the tool stack keeps consolidating.

    3 signals