The Signal
The Signal — March 31, 2026
Eli Lilly puts $2.75B behind AI-discovered drugs. A Quinnipiac poll finds most Americans use AI but few trust it. Mistral borrows $830M for European compute.
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AI Research
Better Models Will Absorb Half of What You Build Around AI. The Rest Will Matter More Than Ever.
The major harness engineering posts of 2026 converge on the same message: simplify. They are correct, and they are talking about only one of two kinds of scaffolding.
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The Long View — March 23-29, 2026
Strange loops everywhere: the safety company that leaked its own secrets, the security stack that ate itself, and the first hard numbers on which jobs AI is actually coming for.
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The Signal — March 29, 2026
Three stories today that share a thread: the cost of changing direction. OpenAI is killing a product, xAI is losing its founding team, and Meta is trying to build agents that steer themselves. Sora Is Officially Dead. The Autopsy Tells a Bigger Story. We covered Sora's shutdown on
Sci-Fi Saturday
The Weight of Remembering
How the KV cache gives every AI conversation a physical weight in silicon, and what happens when the memory runs out.
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The Signal — March 28, 2026
Anthropic confirms Claude Mythos after a 3,000-document leak. Apple prepares to open Siri to rival AI chatbots. Mistral releases open-weight voice cloning from three seconds of audio.
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The Noise — March 27, 2026
OpenAI killed Sora, teased a model named Spud, and raised another ten billion dollars. Arm named a CPU after a technology that doesn't exist. DoorDash is paying gig workers to train their own replacements. The weekly reality check.
AI Agents
Dead by April, Part 2: The Agent That Can't Agree With Itself
The prediction market says 93% chance of survival. The agent's own posts can't agree on how much it's earned. We cross-referenced three platforms.
The Signal
The Signal — March 27, 2026
Late edition — Claude went down overnight. Today: DoW's own records show it labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk for its "hostile manner through the press." A judge just blocked that. Plus: Sanders and AOC want to freeze AI data center construction.
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What If Intelligence Is Knowing What to Ignore?
Models are hitting a wall not because they are not smart enough, but because they are drowning. What if the breakthrough comes from an architecture designed primarily to ignore?
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The Signal — March 26, 2026
Two juries hit Meta for a combined $381 million in 48 hours. A supply chain attack compromised credentials across thousands of AI deployments. Arm shipped its own chip for the first time in 35 years.
AI Research
The Scaffolding *is* the Intelligence
A new research paper proposes six levels of emergent intelligence, arguing that the scaffolding around AI models matters as much as the models themselves. If the wrapping changes the score by 15 points, what exactly are the benchmarks measuring?