The Signal — September 17, 2026
The Read The cost of money went up on the same day the assistant layer started charging rent. The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate a quarter point...
The Signal — September 16, 2026
The Read The safety coordination everybody read as a weekend reaction had already been running for two months. OpenAI global policy chief Chris Lehane...
The Signal — September 15, 2026
The Read The argument about how fast to build frontier models stopped being a lab memo and became a price. President Trump called the slowdown push a "SICK...
The Signal: Human Advancement — Edition #5 — September 15, 2026
The Excelsior Group · The de-siloed AI × (education · work · talent acquisition · L&D · HR) letter · Covering September 8 – 14, 2026 The Read Two numbers...
The Signal: Bio/Health — Week of Sep 14, 2026 — Edition #5
A note before we start: our mail platform was suspended for a sender review between Sept 5 and Sept 10, so Edition #4 never reached your inbox. It is on the...
The Signal — September 14, 2026
The lab that asked the industry to slow down turns out to have been building the referee since July. The Information reported that Anthropic, OpenAI and...
The Signal — September 13, 2026
The lab with the most to lose from a slowdown proposed one, and three of the four other frontier leaders agreed inside a day. Dario Amodei published a three-...
The Signal — September 12, 2026
The Read Twenty-five Fields Medallists — from Pierre Deligne in 1978 to Yu Deng this year — signed a declaration saying the AI labs' use of famous open...
The Signal — September 11, 2026
The price of a frontier-class coding model collapsed and the cost of attacking with one collapsed alongside it. DeepSeek shipped V4.1-Flash under an MIT...
The Signal — September 10, 2026
The argument the labs have been having privately about existential risk broke into the open, and the industry's institutions moved in the same twenty-four...
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...
