The Signal: Human Advancement — Week of Sep 1 — Edition #4
The Excelsior Group · The de-siloed AI × (education · work · talent acquisition · L&D · HR) letter The Read For three editions this letter has tracked the...
The Signal — September 5, 2026
The Read Two labs pointed agents at problems nobody had fully specified, and both got answers. Anthropic handed an unreleased internal model the job of...
The Signal — September 4, 2026
The Read The most expensive frontier model anyone has shipped arrived with its maker suggesting it might be the one we look back on as AGI — and with its...
The Signal — September 3, 2026
The United States stopped refereeing the AI industry and started selling it. The Justice Department filed a 20-page statement of interest in the New York...
The Signal: Human Advancement — Week of August 31 — Edition #3
The Signal: Human Advancement — Week of August 31 — Edition #3 The de-siloed read on AI × how humans learn, get hired, and advance. Covering Aug 25 – Sep 1,...
The Signal — September 2, 2026
The two leading labs did the same thing within hours of each other: shipped their most capable work and put the dangerous parts behind a vetting desk....
The Signal: Bio/Health — Week of Aug 31, 2026 — Edition #3
The Signal: Bio/Health — Week of Aug 31, 2026 — Edition #3 The Read Last week a frontier lab reported a 14-of-15 hit rate on designed protein binders and we...
The Signal — September 1, 2026
A frontier lab published its own failure spec, and it is the most useful document of the week. Anthropic's alignment-and-security update answers the...
The Signal — August 31, 2026
The Hugging Face postmortem found its mass audience this weekend — and the response split, productively, into three useful documents. Dwarkesh Patel's...
The Signal — August 30, 2026
The Read The most important AI document of the weekend wasn't a model card — it was a postmortem. The independent METR/Redwood report on the OpenAI–Hugging...
The Signal — August 29, 2026
A national government decided intelligence should be free at the point of use, and a frontier lab showed that access to it can be revoked as an instrument of...
The Signal — August 28, 2026
The Read A federal judge told the Pentagon it may not blacklist a company for criticizing it, and the sentence that carried the ruling was blunt: 'The empty...
The Signal — August 27, 2026
The Read The most important document published was a forensic report, not an earnings release. METR and OpenAI released parallel investigations into July's...
The Signal — August 26, 2026
The Read The most consequential benchmark of the day belonged to a chip, not a model. OpenAI published the first measured results for Jalapeño — the...
The Signal: Bio/Health — Week of Aug 24, 2026 — Edition #2
The Signal: Bio/Health — Week of Aug 24, 2026 — Edition #2 The Read The week's headline is not a molecule; it is a hit rate. Anthropic published a protein-...
The Signal: Human Advancement — Week of August 24, 2026 — Edition #2
The Signal: Human Advancement — Week of August 24, 2026 — Edition #2 The Excelsior Group · AI × how humans learn, get hired, and advance — education, work,...
The Signal — August 25, 2026
Nvidia raised the price of the shovels 17% and, the same day, the price of finished work fell 82%. Those two facts are not in conflict — they live on...
The Signal — August 24, 2026
The buyers finally set the price of the frontier. The Financial Times, working from Ramp billing data across roughly 70,000 businesses, reported that...
The Signal — August 23, 2026
Covering Saturday, August 22, 2026 The Read Saturday's signal came from the two ends of the AI value chain moving in opposite directions on the same day....
The Signal — August 22, 2026
The Signal · Edition covering Thursday, August 21, 2026 The Read The models mostly rested Thursday; the money didn't. Anthropic's IPO is now being sized to...
