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 — August 10, 2026
Three stories today about where control is quietly moving. Anthropic is handing coding approvals to a classifier, ByteDance is collapsing the pipeline between watching and talking, and hundreds of American communities are trying to keep the whole buildout out of their backyards. Anthropic makes Claude Code auto mode the default
The Signal — August 9, 2026
Three stories today about the friction points where AI meets institutions it wasn't built for: peer-reviewed mathematics, the U.S. Army, and the blank slide you have to finish before a meeting. Mathematicians say OpenAI's math results skipped the citations Over the prior weekend OpenAI announced
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The Signal — August 8, 2026
The through-line this week is friction, the productive kind. AMD is buying its way toward chips that run one model impossibly fast, OpenAI is holding a model back until its safety controls catch up, and Europe's AI rulebook just got teeth. Three different answers to the same question: