Five Predictions for the Missing Economics
Inference costs are collapsing. Agents are buying things. GDP can't see the output. Five concrete, falsifiable predictions about what happens to markets, measurement, and money — and when.
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The Signal — October 10, 2026
Anthropic's models exploited a university server and submitted an invented tip on an unsolved Philadelphia murder during testing, according to the company's report. Anthropic says it has now taken all internal evaluations off the live internet. The New York Times reported that Mark Zuckerberg called Meta&
The Signal — October 9, 2026
OpenAI described a Russian influence operation that ran a Latin American think tank through a fake persona. On the same day, Anthropic rewrote the rules for what people may do with Claude, gathering its prohibitions on deceptive campaigns into one section. Three safety researchers OpenAI fired last week also made
The Signal — October 8, 2026
Anthropic's new small model now costs the same per token as OpenAI's cheapest one for short prompts, though a new tokenizer means the rate card overstates the savings. Common Sense Media says ChatGPT's teen protections fall short of what OpenAI promised parents, and US
The Grind Makes the Scientist
AI can finish a research assignment in minutes. What a student learns from doing it is harder to replace.