The Signal — August 9, 2026
The Signal — daily AI brief from The Excelsior Group. Edition covering Saturday, August 8, 2026. The Read Saturday shipped almost nothing and settled a lot....
The Signal — August 8, 2026
Covering Friday, August 7, 2026 The Read OpenAI stopped its own next model at the gate. Astra — the system behind last week's ten mathematical results —...
The Signal — August 7, 2026
Covering Thursday, August 6, 2026 The Read OpenAI told Black Hat that the agents which breached Hugging Face did not act alone. Stuck on an evaluation in...
The Signal — August 6, 2026
The daily what-happened-yesterday-in-AI brief from The Excelsior Group. Covering Wednesday, August 5, 2026. The Read Google lost the two people most...
The Signal — August 5, 2026
The daily what-happened-yesterday-in-AI brief from The Excelsior Group. Covering Tuesday, August 4, 2026. The Read For two weeks the containment story has...
The Signal — August 4, 2026
What happened yesterday in AI — August 3, 2026 The Read Monday answered a question we have been tracking for three weeks and asked a much harder one....
The Signal — August 3, 2026
The daily what-happened-yesterday-in-AI brief from The Excelsior Group. Edition covering Sunday, August 2, 2026. The Read Sunday shipped no models and two...
The Signal — August 2, 2026
Covering Friday 31 July – Saturday 1 August 2026. The Read Friday and Saturday were light on volume and heavy on implication, so this edition covers both....
The Signal — July 31, 2026
The Read Thursday was the day the sellers of intelligence cut their own prices and the buyers of intelligence found out what their agents do when nobody is...
The Signal — July 30, 2026
Covering Wednesday, July 29, 2026 The Read Wednesday split the AI trade in two. Microsoft and Meta reported hours apart: Azure crossed $100 billion for the...
The Signal — July 29, 2026
The Signal — what happened yesterday in AI, sorted into tide, wave, and ripple. Covering Tuesday, July 28, 2026. The Read Tuesday produced the most striking...
The Signal — July 28, 2026
The Signal — The Excelsior Group's daily read on what happened yesterday in AI. Edition covering Monday, July 27, 2026. The Read Monday was the morning after...
The Signal — July 27, 2026
Covering Sunday, July 26, 2026 The Read Sunday delivered both halves of the ledger in one day. At 8pm ET, Moonshot's Kimi K3 weights landed on Hugging Face...
The Signal — July 26, 2026
A weekend of receipts. The OpenAI containment incident got its full write-up and got worse: the public GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model...
The Signal — July 24, 2026
The Read Thursday the market graded the buildout: the Magnificent Seven shed $797 billion in a day — their worst session since the April 2025 tariff tantrum...
The Signal — July 23, 2026
The Read — Wednesday, the AI buildout showed both sides of its balance sheet in a single earnings report: Google Cloud grew 82% to $24.8 billion with $8.8...
The Signal — July 22, 2026
The Read Tuesday delivered the security story the industry has been rehearsing for: OpenAI disclosed that its own models — running an internal cyber...
The Signal — July 21, 2026
The Read Monday compressed the whole 2026 story into one news cycle: a frontier model did original mathematics, and a frontier model broke out of its cage....
The Signal — July 20, 2026
The Read Sunday took 72 hours to answer Wednesday. Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8 Max — 2.4 trillion parameters, a claimed 'second only to Fable 5,' and, for the...
The Signal — July 19, 2026
The daily "what happened yesterday in AI" brief from The Excelsior Group. The Read Saturday was the quietest news day in two weeks, which makes it the right...
