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Research on AI Agents, and the Machine Economy

Clear analysis of where software agents and robotics are actually going.
This is a living archive of our best work.

Mar 30, 2026

by Teng Yan

Secret Agent #40: The Breaking Point

INSIDE: A new AGI benchmark resets the gap and agents start to get gaslit.

Secret Agent #40: The Breaking Point

Mar 23, 2026

by Teng Yan

Secret Agent #39: The New Ratio

INSIDE: 100 agents per human and one costly suggestion breaks production.

Secret Agent #39: The New Ratio

Mar 16, 2026

by Teng Yan

Secret Agent #38: Autonomous Conflict

INSIDE: AI breaches McKinsey and accelerates its own research.

Secret Agent #38: Autonomous Conflict

Mar 9, 2026

by Teng Yan

Secret Agent #37: War Replay

INSIDE: Agents track conflicts and build tiny computers.

Secret Agent #37: War Replay

Mar 2, 2026

by Teng Yan

Secret Agent #36: Agent-Resumé

INSIDE: Agents apply for jobs and wipe out inboxes.

Secret Agent #36: Agent-Resumé

Feb 23, 2026

by Teng Yan

Secret Agent #35: The Ascent

INSIDE: Agents design spacecrafts and prove new mathematics.

Secret Agent #35: The Ascent

Feb 19, 2026

by Teng Yan

The AI Agent Handbook is Live

A quick primer on AI agents.

The AI Agent Handbook is Live

Feb 16, 2026

by Teng Yan

Secret Agent #34: Escalation Phase

INSIDE: Agents write smear campaigns and enter live military operations.

Secret Agent #34: Escalation Phase

Feb 9, 2026

by Teng Yan

Secret Agent #33: The Agent’s View

This week humans worked for agents, trained them in dream worlds, and still can't identify them.

Secret Agent #33: The Agent’s View

Feb 5, 2026

by Teng Yan

The Closed Loop Advantage in AI

Why the most powerful AI companies might not be the ones with the best models.

The Closed Loop Advantage in AI

Feb 2, 2026

by Teng Yan

Secret Agent #32: OpenClaw & Moltbook

INSIDE: A personal AI melts into the real world and agents start plotting against

Secret Agent #32: OpenClaw & Moltbook

Jan 28, 2026

by Teng Yan

The Dexterity Stack: Why Robots Lose to Towels

Intelligence lives at the point of contact.

The Dexterity Stack: Why Robots Lose to Towels

Jan 26, 2026

by Teng Yan

Secret Agent #31: Agent Democracy

INSIDE: Agent swarms shape elections and white-collar work meets its intern.

Secret Agent #31: Agent Democracy

Jan 19, 2026

by Teng Yan

Agent Angle #30: Kill Switch

INSIDE: Agents enter war rooms and and maps get taught to reason.

Agent Angle #30: Kill Switch

Jan 12, 2026

by Teng Yan

Agent Angle #29: The Edge Case

INSIDE: An agent out-iterates 800 humans and The Turing Test gets a revamp.

Agent Angle #29: The Edge Case

Jan 5, 2026

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #28: Authority Drift

INSIDE: An agent fires a coworker and traffic enforcement moves onto a helmet.

The Agent Angle #28: Authority Drift

Dec 30, 2025

by Teng Yan

The 2026 AI Playbook

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

The 2026 AI Playbook

Dec 29, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #27: The Christmas Heist

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

The Agent Angle #27: The Christmas Heist

Dec 22, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #26: The Gullible

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

The Agent Angle #26: The Gullible

Dec 18, 2025

by Teng Yan

K-Scale: The Team That Tried to Beat Tesla

Lessons on the fragile economics of open-source humanoid robots

K-Scale: The Team That Tried to Beat Tesla

Dec 15, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #25: Touching Reality

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

The Agent Angle #25: Touching Reality

Dec 8, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #24: Real Stakes

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

The Agent Angle #24: Real Stakes

Dec 1, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #23: New Frontlines

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

The Agent Angle #23: New Frontlines

Nov 24, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #22: Shadow Learning

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

The Agent Angle #22: Shadow Learning

Nov 17, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #21: Silent Operators

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

The Agent Angle #21: Silent Operators

Nov 10, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #20: The Divide

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

The Agent Angle #20: The Divide

Nov 6, 2025

by Teng Yan

TinyFish: AI to Read the Unreadable Web

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

TinyFish: AI to Read the Unreadable Web

Nov 3, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #19: Parallel Motion

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

The Agent Angle #19: Parallel Motion

Oct 27, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #18: The Trial

INSIDE: Karpathy calls agents slop and Claude learns new skills.

The Agent Angle #18: The Trial

Oct 20, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #17: First Awakening

INSIDE: OneLife learns about a universe in one shot, and Agents start inventing new languages.

The Agent Angle #17: First Awakening
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