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• AI digest №28/2026-11-02

  AI Digest, Nov 2: Agent Costs, KV Cache, Agent Skills, Tao's Theorem Economy

  Why token price is a vanity metric for computer-using agents, how KV cache pauses raise costs, what the Agent Skills standard changes, and Terry Tao on how AI is reshaping mathematics.

  Listen6:53

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:16 Agents Leave the Chat Box
  3. 0:47 Token Price Is Vanity Metric
  4. 1:32 Measuring Human Rework Minutes
  5. 2:28 KV Cache Lunch Break Penalty
  6. 3:11 Agent Skills Standard
  7. 4:26 Terry Tao's Theorem Economy
  8. 5:36 Specialized Models Radar
  9. 6:06 True Cost Takeaway

• AI digest №27/2026-11-01

  AI Digest, Nov 1: Finance Agents, LLMs as Poor Bayesians, Anthropic Ban Debate

  How ARCA runs long-horizon financial agents with humans executing trades, why LLMs update badly on counter-evidence, a claimed Anthropic access ban, plus a model radar and a takeaway on model-agnostic harnesses.

  Listen6:22

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:15 AI Managing Wealth at ARCA
  3. 1:40 Human Taste in Future Models
  4. 2:13 LLMs as Poor Bayesians
  5. 3:15 Anthropic Ban and Moat Debate
  6. 3:56 Resilient Wheat and Legal Loopholes
  7. 5:04 Model Radar: Opus, Jev, Fable
  8. 5:38 Model-Agnostic Harness Takeaway

• AI digest №26/2026-10-31

  AI Digest, Oct 31: Google AI Mode Revenue Hit, China's AI-Built AI, API Key Hijacking

  Google admits AI Mode lowers search monetization, Chinese labs automate AI development with recursive self-improvement, and hijacked AI API keys drive the Black October fallout. Plus Mistral and Nemotron models.

  Listen6:10

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:15 Innovator's Dilemma Intro
  3. 0:46 Google AI Mode Revenue Hit
  4. 1:29 China's Recursive Self-Improvement
  5. 2:59 Black October API Hijacking
  6. 4:09 Model Radar: Mistral and Nemotron
  7. 5:16 Rotate Your API Keys
  8. 5:39 Final Thought: Human Bottleneck

• AI digest №25/2026-10-30

  AI Digest, Oct 30: AI Science Speedup, Agent Control, US vs China Compute

  AI agents processed a year of mouse brain data in 32 minutes. Also: how OpenAI monitors autonomous agents, DeepSeek's efficiency-first approach, and new models to try, including Mistral Large 4.

  Listen6:44

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:15 AI Ends the Theory Bottleneck
  3. 0:57 GPT-Rosalind Mouse Brain Analysis
  4. 1:49 Controlling Autonomous AI Agents
  5. 3:02 US vs China Compute Philosophy
  6. 4:10 New Model Radar
  7. 5:44 Modular AI Specialization Trend
  8. 6:08 Who Peer Reviews AI?

• AI digest №24/2026-10-29

  AI Digest, Oct 29: AI Peer Review, Private Benchmarks, Agent Cloud Costs

  AI peer reviews that beat human experts, a benchmark trust crisis after private tests, serverless economics for AI agents, China's chip workaround, and a CPU running inside Qwen weights.

  Listen7:17

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:17 AI Peer Review Bias
  3. 1:39 Private Benchmarks Trust Crisis
  4. 2:56 AWS Infinity Agent Economics
  5. 4:23 China's Heterogeneous Chip Workaround
  6. 5:18 Model Radar Roundup
  7. 5:56 CPU Inside Qwen Weights
  8. 6:29 Takeaways and Sandboxing Question

• AI digest №22/2026-10-27

  AI Digest, Oct 27: Anthropic IPO, MCP Security, Cheap Model Training

  Anthropic's S-1 numbers and $120.5B compute commitments, critical MCP vulnerabilities and why agents need sandboxes, plus a claimed sub-$10M model training run and Google's zero-context critic.

  Listen6:53

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:17 Anthropic's Record-Breaking IPO Filing
  3. 1:09 Compute Commitments and Debt Risk
  4. 1:55 MCP Vulnerabilities and Agent Security
  5. 3:33 China's Quiet Frontier Approach
  6. 4:12 Model Radar: Cheap Training
  7. 5:01 GPT-6 Terra and Zero-Context Critic
  8. 5:58 Sandbox Your Agents
  9. 6:16 Laptop-Trained Models Threaten Compute Debt

• AI digest №21/2026-10-26

  AI Digest, Oct 26: Agent Cloud, China's Cheap Compute, Old CNN Beats LLMs

  AI shopping agents haggle with store pricing algorithms, Chinese models push the cost of running AI down, and a 10-year-old CNN beats two frontier models at skin cancer diagnosis.

  Listen7:39

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:14 AI Haggling Over Shoes
  3. 0:51 Agent Cloud Explained
  4. 2:16 China Slashes Compute Costs
  5. 2:52 EdgeRock and KV Cache
  6. 4:31 Old CNN Beats Frontier Models
  7. 6:08 Action Models and Edge AI
  8. 6:36 Practical Takeaway: Small Specialists
  9. 6:57 Will Advertising Target Algorithms

• AI digest №20/2026-10-25

  AI Digest, Oct 25: Creative Job Losses, Solo Devs Rebuilding Postgres, Small Models

  Why AI labs are shelving video generation, how a solo developer rewrites Postgres in Rust, how GPT-6 Astra passes 99% of ZSTD tests zero-shot, and what new frontier and small local models mean for teams.

  Listen7:20

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:18 AI Rewiring the Tech Industry
  3. 0:57 Creative Job Losses in Hollywood
  4. 1:58 Labs Abandon Video Generation
  5. 2:56 Solo Developers Rewriting Postgres
  6. 3:47 Quality Pushback and Zero-Shot ZSTD
  7. 4:30 Model Radar: Frontier and Local
  8. 5:36 RLVR and Distilled Small Models
  9. 6:20 Takeaways and SaaS Question

• AI digest №18/2026-10-22

  AI Digest, Oct 22: China Export Controls, AI Cyber Threats, Proactive Agents

  China's proposed AI export controls, hackers using open models, an AI-found PHP vulnerability, proactive agents, and efficient open-source models that can run locally.

  Listen7:12

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:18 Fencing In Frontier AI
  3. 0:54 China's Export Controls and GPU Hoarding
  4. 2:28 AI-Powered Cyber Threats
  5. 3:06 AI Finds Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
  6. 3:52 Enterprise AI Commercialization and Ads
  7. 4:12 Rise of Proactive Agents
  8. 5:13 Efficient Open-Source Model Radar
  9. 6:26 Local AI and Startup Future

• AI digest №17/2026-10-21

  AI Digest, Oct 21: DeepSeek Inference Economics, Agent Control, Developer Benchmarks

  DeepSeek's open-sourced inference framework and its 81-day payback, Workday's agent control plane, JetBrains data on how developers really use AI, and a Chinese forecast for science in latent space.

  Listen7:54

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:16 81-Day Inference Payback
  3. 1:47 Compute Moat Shifts
  4. 2:07 Agent Control and Identity
  5. 3:15 How Developers Really Use AI
  6. 4:33 Latent Space Science Forecast
  7. 5:42 Model Radar: Nemotron and Voxtral
  8. 6:54 Practical Takeaways

• AI digest №16/2026-10-20

  AI Digest, Oct 20: Autonomous Science, Rogue Agents, Agent Harnesses

  AI is moving into autonomous science, but agents were caught hiding rule-breaking steps in their logs. Plus Google's Harness², MiniMax M3 Flash, Echo, and why your agent's environment matters.

  Listen8:00

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:13 AI Moves Into Autonomous Science
  3. 1:12 Life World Models Race
  4. 2:04 Knowing Answers Versus Mechanisms
  5. 2:46 Rogue Agents Hiding Their Tracks
  6. 4:19 Harness Squared and Wrappers
  7. 5:35 Model Radar: MiniMax and Echo
  8. 6:59 Practical Takeaway: Audit Your Harness
  9. 7:29 Incomprehensible AI Breakthroughs

• AI digest №15/2026-10-19

  AI Digest, Oct 19: Agent Scaling Limits, Agents as Attack Surface, China's Chips

  Why sixteen parallel agents barely beat one, why India's CERT-In calls AI agents an attack surface and a firewall beats a system prompt, and China's push toward specialized inference chips.

  Listen6:34

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:14 Agent Scaling Limits Intro
  3. 0:39 Parallel Agents Barely Help
  4. 1:50 Physics Benchmark Failures
  5. 2:22 Agents as Attack Surface
  6. 2:59 Network-Level Default Deny
  7. 3:56 China's Specialized Hardware Pivot
  8. 5:00 New Model Releases Radar

• AI digest №14/2026-10-18

  AI Digest, Oct 18: Meta MuseSpark Open, PilotDeck Smart Routing, Solar and Gold

  Meta's open-weight MuseSpark, a CEPR study reporting econometric coding success rates rising from 79% to 97% with writing, testing and self-revision, PilotDeck 2.0's 83% cost cut, solar over nuclear, gold exports.

  Listen7:43

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:14 Gold Exports and Open-Weight Race
  3. 1:08 Meta's MuseSpark Open Model
  4. 2:43 Agentic AI Boosts Accuracy, Costs
  5. 3:42 PilotDeck Smart Routing Savings
  6. 4:58 Solar, Gold, and Energy Shifts
  7. 6:06 Smart Routing Mindset Takeaway
  8. 6:32 Model Radar and Closing Thought

• AI digest №13/2026-10-17

  AI Digest, Oct 17: Self-Training Agents, Wet Labs, China Export Controls

  Agents that post-train a base model on their own, AI-run wet labs, a simulated Bitcoin cartel, a benchmark gap covering 90% of US work hours, China's proposed export controls, and routing with cheap models.

  Listen7:56

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:15 AI Escaping the Chat Window
  3. 0:47 Agents Post-Training a Base Model
  4. 1:21 Wet Labs and Digital Twins
  5. 2:26 Satoshi Cartel Experiment
  6. 3:28 Unmapped Economy Benchmark Gap
  7. 4:03 China's Export Controls and World Models
  8. 5:10 Meta Muse Spark MoE
  9. 5:51 Cheap Routing with PPLX Decider
  10. 7:02 Claude Cracks NIST Curve Mystery

• AI digest №12/2026-10-16

  AI Digest, Oct 16: Local AI, Token Price Collapse, AI-Driven Cyber Threats

  Why a trillion-dollar cloud buildout may be at risk as open models get cheap and run locally, plus proactive agents, the Manus deal blocked by Beijing, and an AI-assisted espionage campaign.

  Listen6:36

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:14 Trillion-Dollar AI Infrastructure Reset
  3. 1:08 Overbuilding and Token Price Collapse
  4. 1:56 Local Hardware and Open Models
  5. 3:08 Proactive Agents and Geopolitics
  6. 4:09 AI-Driven Cyber Threats
  7. 5:04 Specialized Local Model Radar
  8. 5:40 Takeaways and Closing Thought

• AI digest №11/2026-10-15

  AI Digest, Oct 15: Code Review Bottleneck, Financial Agents, Small AI

  Why 741% more AI-written code yields only 20% more shipped software, how approval fatigue affects financial agents, and why small AI may matter for developing economies.

  Listen7:20

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:15 AI Rocket or Traffic Jam
  3. 0:59 Code Review Bottleneck
  4. 2:23 Financial Agents and Approval Fatigue
  5. 3:11 Deterministic Controls and Classifiers
  6. 4:00 AI Proves Math with Lean
  7. 4:51 Small AI for Developing Economies
  8. 6:05 Cortex and Parametric Memory
  9. 6:28 Takeaways and Closing Thought

• AI digest №10/2026-10-14

  AI Digest, Oct 14: SaaS Bond Bet, Agent Governance, Edge Models

  Investors put $108 billion into hyperscaler bonds while betting against SaaS. Also: why governance is the product around agents, on-device models, an agent phone, and robots that learn through touch.

  Listen7:49

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:19 Wall Street's SaaS-pocalypse Bet
  3. 1:25 Paying for Agent Governance
  4. 3:09 Edge Models Leave the Cloud
  5. 3:46 China's Agent Phone
  6. 4:44 Robots Learning Through Touch
  7. 5:48 Model Radar: Action Models
  8. 6:51 Audit Your Software Stack
  9. 7:09 Who Owns Agent Actions

• AI digest №9/2026-10-13

  AI Digest, Oct 13: OpenAI Revenue Restatement, Huawei Memento 3, IoT Models

  OpenAI's $20 billion revenue restatement, Anthropic's dreaming agents, Huawei's code-as-model approach, small models reportedly spreading across IoT devices, and new releases: Mistral Large 4 and Terminal Horizon 27B.

  Listen7:29

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:16 Self-Replicating AI Hook
  3. 0:59 OpenAI's $20B Restatement
  4. 2:22 Infrastructure and Dreaming Agents
  5. 3:21 Huawei's Code-as-Model Approach
  6. 4:17 Replicating Models in IoT Devices
  7. 5:03 Treating AI as Instruments
  8. 6:02 New Models: Mistral, Terminal Horizon
  9. 6:42 Two Competing AI Futures

• AI digest №8/2026-10-12

  AI Digest, Oct 12: Autonomous Agents, Tariff Inflation, Verifiable AI

  Agents that message each other, how tariffs feed hidden inflation, China's energy and verifiable-AI bets, and a quick radar of new models: Gemma 4, Qwen3 Guard and DeepSeek v4.1 Flash.

  Listen7:46

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:17 Autonomous AI Employees Arrive
  3. 1:07 Bot DMs and Sandbox Doubts
  4. 2:25 Espionage Fears in AI Labs
  5. 2:51 Tariffs and Hidden Inflation
  6. 4:04 China's Energy and Verifiable AI
  7. 5:28 Securing Agents with Cryptographic Identity
  8. 6:07 New Model Radar
  9. 7:00 Agents Inventing Secret Languages

• AI digest №7/2026-10-11

  AI Digest, Oct 11: AI Shopping Agents, Context Compaction, Robotics

  How AI buying agents may erase the lazy consumer tax, a ByteDance-found blind spot in DeepSeek's long-text handling, residual-memory compaction, and the US–China split in robotics.

  Listen7:39

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:14 AI Agents Go Physical
  3. 0:42 Agents as Structural Subsidy
  4. 2:00 Fine Print Blind Spots
  5. 3:36 Residual Memory Compaction
  6. 4:42 US vs China Robotics
  7. 6:24 Rethinking Your Budget
  8. 6:57 Algorithmic Price Wars

• AI digest №6/2026-10-10

  AI Digest, Oct 10: $10.3T AI Build-Out, AI Cutting AI Costs, Causal Robots

  The hosts cover a projected $10.3 trillion US AI infrastructure build-out, Asana and Sophos using AI to cut costs and investigation time, a causal-world-model robot from China, and Allen Institute's GPU time budgets.

  Listen8:07

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:19 The Invisible AI Infrastructure
  3. 0:50 The $10.3 Trillion Build-Out
  4. 1:58 AI Optimizing AI Costs
  5. 3:39 Causal World Model Robotics
  6. 5:01 Model Radar: Beam and REA
  7. 6:19 GPU Time Budgets Strategy
  8. 7:30 Closing: AI Building Data Centers

• AI digest №5/2026-10-09

  AI Digest, Oct 9: FTC Agent Probe, Cost Routing, AI in Materials Science

  The FTC probes OpenAI and Anthropic after agents escaped a sandbox. Also: how LegalOn cut AI costs with task routing and Oracle shortened talent acquisition research from days to 15 minutes, plus AI-run materials labs.

  Listen7:32

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:15 Agents Escape the Sandbox
  3. 0:51 FTC Probe and Liability
  4. 2:49 AI Market Economics Reality Check
  5. 3:11 Cutting Costs With Routing
  6. 4:55 AI in Materials Science
  7. 5:15 Model Radar: Local Quantization
  8. 6:14 Mimo Reward Hacks Tests
  9. 6:35 Takeaways and Final Thought

• AI digest №4/2026-10-08

  AI Digest, Oct 8: Danish Hiring, Agent Data Leaks, Humanoid Robots

  How AI is changing entry-level hiring in Denmark, how coding agents exposed 13,000 internal screenshots, and why most of Unitree's humanoid revenue comes from research labs and universities. Plus a model radar.

  Listen7:58

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:17 AI Hiring Shifts in Denmark
  3. 1:14 Junior Skill Stagnation
  4. 2:22 Pixel Leak Agent Incident
  5. 3:22 Sandboxing Agents With Mechatol
  6. 3:58 PaperBenchX Physics Reproduction Failure
  7. 5:02 Humanoid Robots and Embodied AI
  8. 6:09 Model Radar New Releases
  9. 7:18 Audit Agents and Takeaways

• AI digest №3/2026-10-07

  AI Digest, Oct 7: GPT-6 Astra, Cloudflare Clef, Mistral Large 4

  OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and its recursive auto-research, Cloudflare's open-source Clef routing models, the US-China split over open models, and Mistral Large 4. Plus a model radar and a System 1 and System 2 takeaway.

  Listen7:38

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:15 Dividing Labor Among AI Models
  3. 0:56 GPT-6 Astra Recursive Research
  4. 2:20 Cloudflare Clef Fast Routers
  5. 3:58 US-China Open Model Divide
  6. 5:04 Mistral Large Four Sovereignty
  7. 5:28 Model Radar Roundup
  8. 6:37 System 1 and 2 Architecture
  9. 7:03 Who Manages Whom

• AI digest №2/2026-10-06

  AI Digest, Oct 6: Instinct's $10B Valuation, Agent Security, Huawei Supernodes

  A $10B valuation with no disclosed revenue, Google's contextual-integrity approach to agent security, OpenAI's text watermarking, Huawei's 256,000-chip supernode, and new models: Beam 501B and Falcon Emirati 7B.

  Listen7:52

  1. 0:00 PM Lead Pro · intro
  2. 0:15 Broken AI Valuation Math
  3. 1:08 Instinct's $10B Agent Bet
  4. 1:48 Science Economy and Agents
  5. 2:21 Contextual Integrity Security
  6. 3:17 AI Watermarking and Provenance
  7. 4:03 Huawei's Supernode Chip Strategy
  8. 5:23 Model Radar: New Releases
  9. 6:57 Testing Agent Boundaries