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...
The Signal — August 21, 2026
Covering Thursday, August 20, 2026 The Read Thursday, the demand side finally spoke. AT&T — 100,000 employees, 45 billion tokens a day — told The Information...
The Signal: Bio/Health — Week of Aug 17, 2026 — Edition #1
The Signal: Bio/Health — Week of Aug 17, 2026 — Edition #1 Covering Aug 12–19, 2026 · The Excelsior Group The Read This week the field graded its own...
The Signal: Human Advancement — Week of August 17, 2026 — Edition #1
The Signal: Human Advancement — Week of August 17, 2026 — Edition #1 The Excelsior Group · AI × how humans learn, get hired, and advance — education, work,...
The Signal — August 20, 2026
Covering Wednesday, August 19, 2026 The Read Wednesday was the day the AI economy's plumbing got priced — all of it, at once. Stripe publicly confirmed its...
The Signal — August 19, 2026
Tuesday, August 18, 2026 The Read Tuesday was the day two frontier labs put a price on their own governance. OpenAI disclosed that it paused reinforcement-...
The Signal — August 18, 2026
What happened in AI yesterday — Monday, August 17, 2026. The Read Monday delivered the largest private compute deal ever assembled, and the interesting part...
The Signal — August 17, 2026
Covering August 12–16, 2026 The Read This edition covers five days — August 12 through 16 — and the through-line is that the price tag stopped being the...
The Signal — August 12, 2026
What happened in AI yesterday — Tuesday, August 11, 2026. The Read Tuesday's news happened in the middle of the stack. NVIDIA — a chip company — open-sourced...
The Signal — August 11, 2026
The Signal · what happened in AI on Monday, August 10, 2026 The Read Monday was the inverse of Sunday: everything moved at once, in all three layers. Meta...
The Signal — August 10, 2026
Covering Sunday, August 9, 2026 The Read Sunday produced no primary news: no lab announcements, no model drops — even the daily aggregators didn't publish....
