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AI
The Quiet Oligopoly
Three companies now serve nearly all frontier AI inference. Nobody elected them. Nobody regulates them. The market consolidated before most people noticed.
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Signal Report
Money
Inference Costs Fell 90% in 18 Months
The cost of running AI models in production dropped faster than anyone projected. The startups that bet on expensive inference are now repricing everything.
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AI
Junior Work Is Vanishing First
Coding, writing, and analyst roles show AI substitution earliest. The pipeline problem is bigger than the job-loss headline.
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Compute
GPUs Became Access, Not Inventory
Blackwell demand turned chips into infrastructure allocation. Startups compete for access, not price.
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By the Numbers
Models
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Models
Benchmarks Are Becoming Product Marketing
Model scores keep rising. The harder question is whether tests still predict real deployment value.
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Money
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Revenue Was the Easy Part
Enterprise adoption is real. Whether the unit economics work at scale is the next story.
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Society
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Society
Europe's AI Law Leaves the Spreadsheet
The EU AI Act is law. The enforcement mechanism, compliance cost, and competitive impact are all still unknown.
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Creative AI
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Creative AI
Music AI Finally Reached Court
Major labels sued Suno and Udio. The real question is what happens to every other training dataset.
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