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AI Deep Dives

Dec 30, 2025

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19 min read

The 2026 AI Playbook

A distilled roadmap from 1,436+ frontier conversations by top investors and builders.

Teng Yan

Dec 18, 2025

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22 min read

K-Scale: The Team That Tried to Beat Tesla

Lessons on the fragile economics of open-source humanoid robots

Ravi P, +1

Nov 6, 2025

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33 min read

TinyFish: AI to Read the Unreadable Web

How TinyFish turns the internet’s messiest pages into the world’s most valuable database

Teng Yan, +1

Oct 1, 2025

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34 min read

Decart: Generating Worlds

By solving the crippling cost of real-time simulation, two Israeli intelligence veterans built a $3.1 billion company to generate infinite realities.

Teng Yan, +1

Sep 11, 2025

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31 min read

The Watt Moment: Manus AI and the Rise of General-Purpose Agents

Manus gave AI hands and built the first AI worker that actually...works hard.

Teng Yan, +1

Aug 27, 2025

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33 min read

Sierra: Enterprise AI Agents

The unexpected delight of being understood by a machine

Ravi P, +1

The Agent Angle: Weekly Newsletter

Dec 29, 2025

The Agent Angle #27: The Christmas Heist

INSIDE: The Grinch hacks agents and and the moment shopping leaves Amazon.

Ayan Khokhar, Teng Yan

Dec 22, 2025

The Agent Angle #26: The Gullible

INSIDE: A vending machine breaks by social engineering and SaaS meets its match.

Ayan Khokhar, Teng Yan

Dec 15, 2025

The Agent Angle #25: Touching Reality

INSIDE: An AI out-hacks Stanford’s security and AI learns to use your phone.

Ayan Khokhar, Teng Yan

Dec 8, 2025

The Agent Angle #24: Real Stakes

INSIDE: An agent deletes a life’s work and GPT is better than... VCs?

Ayan Khokhar, Teng Yan

Dec 1, 2025

The Agent Angle #23: New Frontlines

INSIDE: Police starts deploying triage agents and Poetiq’s tiny team redraws the AGI frontier.

Ayan Khokhar, Teng Yan

Nov 24, 2025

The Agent Angle #22: Shadow Learning

INSIDE: An AI out-researches human experts and MIT trains an agent to build 3D models with CAD.

Ayan Khokhar, Teng Yan

Nov 17, 2025

The Agent Angle #21: Silent Operators

INSIDE: Claude runs an AI-native cyber attack and Windows tries to reinvent itself as an agentic OS.

Ayan Khokhar, Teng Yan

Nov 10, 2025

The Agent Angle #20: The Divide

INSIDE: : Amazon sues a rogue shopper, and Microsoft’s market of AIs collapses on itself.

Ayan Khokhar, Teng Yan

Nov 3, 2025

The Agent Angle #19: Parallel Motion

INSIDE: Dimensional gives the world a command line and agents get their own OS.

Ayan Khokhar, Teng Yan

Daily AI Briefs

Daily AI Briefing

README.ai: 30 Dec 2025

All you need to know on AI in 5 minutes

Teng Yan

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Dec 31, 2025