Research on AI Agents, and the Machine Economy

Secret Agent #34: Escalation Phase

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

Secret Agent #33: The Agent’s View

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

The Closed Loop Advantage in AI

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

Secret Agent #32: OpenClaw & Moltbook

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

The Dexterity Stack: Why Robots Lose to Towels

Intelligence lives at the point of contact.

Secret Agent #31: Agent Democracy

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

Agent Angle #30: Kill Switch

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

Agent Angle #29: The Edge Case

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

The Agent Angle #28: Authority Drift

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

The 2026 AI Playbook

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

The Agent Angle #27: The Christmas Heist

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

The Agent Angle #26: The Gullible

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

K-Scale: The Team That Tried to Beat Tesla

Lessons on the fragile economics of open-source humanoid robots

The Agent Angle #25: Touching Reality

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

The Agent Angle #24: Real Stakes

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

The Agent Angle #23: New Frontlines

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

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 #21: Silent Operators

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

The Agent Angle #20: The Divide

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

TinyFish: AI to Read the Unreadable Web

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

The Agent Angle #19: Parallel Motion

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

The Agent Angle #18: The Trial

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

The Agent Angle #17: First Awakening

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

The Agent Angle #16: The Dark Side

INSIDE: Agent survival instincts hit the lab, and Codex proves recursion can burn.

The Agent Angle #15: Inner Worlds

INSIDE: Dreamer 4 mines diamonds from imagination and agents get better through doomscrolling.

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.

The Agent Angle #14: Mind Games

INSIDE: Agents get smarter from vibes and swarm to crack the hardest binaries.

The Agent Angle #13: The Immortality Clock

INSIDE: An AI clocks human aging with precision, and zero-day exploits finally meet their kill switch.

The Agent Angle #12: Infinite Proofs

INSIDE: Albania swears in the world’s first AI minister, and Gauss cracks an 18-month proof in three weeks.

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.