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Emerging shifts, the context behind them, and the sources to form your own view.

From Week Signal

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10 October 202615 min listen
Who Checks the Work?
722 math manuscripts from an unreleased model — peer review can't absorb the volume, and the frontier drifts further from public hands.
11
3 October 202613 min listen
The Rails
Stripe bought the AI model routing layer for seven billion dollars — and the infrastructure stack for the agentic economy is being assembled under a shrinking number of players.
10
26 September 202611 min listen
The Squeeze
Xiaomi built the world's top open-weights model for M while every frontier lab slashed API prices 40-50% in the same week — the cost of producing AI and the price of selling it are both collapsing.