Research on AI, Agents, and the Machine Economy

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.