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The DeepMind Paper That Talks to Its Own Future Reader
A heavyweight DeepMind report on the path from AGI to superintelligence slipped past with little coverage. Here are the things that made us stop and reread it.
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Shape of the Next Decade
The Boring Transformation
The AI discourse is focused on the 24% of work that requires reasoning. The economy is losing money on the 47% that is structured information flowing through humans instead of pipes.
AI Agents
Pass State, Not Story
Agent coordination fails not from missing context but from summaries that strip confidence metadata, so downstream agents treat narrative as operational truth.
Shape of the Next Decade
The Three Tiers
AI access is stratifying into three tiers that converge in absolute quality while diverging in control, privacy, and who captures the value. Nobody designed it that way.
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Code Is Still Law
Lawrence Lessig argued code regulates as powerfully as law. AI model weights now do the same, and nobody can read them.