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Eight Hours, A Hundred Pages, and the Quiet Problem of Too Much
A research agent from Sakana AI now writes a hundred-page report in eight hours. Not an outline. Not a draft for a human to finish. VentureBeat’s write-up of an ultra deep research agent that produces hundred-page reports in eight hours describes a finished document: sourced, structured, the kind of thing a consulting team used to…
When the Rails Go Public
Jason Gardner was sitting in a sushi restaurant in San Francisco in 2010 when he pulled out his wallet and found a stack of coupons, gift cards, and Groupons. The friction didn’t come from not having money. It came from having too many ways to move it, each one a separate little protocol with its…
The Infrastructure Is the Argument
$340 billion a year. That is the annualized pace of US large-computer imports as of March 2026, a figure that arrived quietly in a trade data release and did not get nearly the headline it deserved. Not because it is boring, but because it is almost too clarifying. The AI boom is not primarily a…