Research on AI Agents, and the Machine Economy

Secret Agent #45: From OpenAI fired to 20x

He bought power plants instead of Nvidia stock. Plus: AI agents that don't forget, and Yann LeCun's case against LLMs.

Secret Agent #44: Two robots walked into a room..

Plus: one dev rewrote 960,000 lines in 6 days, and AMD just locked up 12 GW from OpenAI and Meta.

Secret Agent #43: A Harvard lab just shut down to fix agent memory

Plus: Figure's "iPhone 1 moment", the data center crunch, and a free AI infrastructure map.

Secret Agent #42: Sequoia says stop selling software

Instead, we should start selling outcomes

The AI Infrastructure Bottleneck Index

Secret Agent #41: The Hidden Fragility Behind AI Agents

Poisoned training data, Claude’s leaked orchestration layer, and the simple agents quietly making real money.

Secret Agent #40: The Breaking Point

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

Secret Agent #39: The New Ratio

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

Secret Agent #38: Autonomous Conflict

INSIDE: AI breaches McKinsey and accelerates its own research.

Secret Agent #37: War Replay

INSIDE: Agents track conflicts and build tiny computers.

Secret Agent #36: Agent-Resumé

INSIDE: Agents apply for jobs and wipe out inboxes.

Secret Agent #35: The Ascent

INSIDE: Agents design spacecrafts and prove new mathematics.

The AI Agent Handbook is Live

A quick primer on AI agents.

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.