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The Secret Agent

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.

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

Oct 13, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #16: The Dark Side

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

The Agent Angle #16: The Dark Side

Oct 6, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #15: Inner Worlds

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

The Agent Angle #15: Inner Worlds

Oct 1, 2025

by Teng Yan

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.

Decart: Generating Worlds

Sep 29, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #14: Mind Games

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

The Agent Angle #14: Mind Games

Sep 22, 2025

by Teng Yan

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 #13: The Immortality Clock

Sep 15, 2025

by Teng Yan

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 Agent Angle #12: Infinite Proofs

Sep 11, 2025

by Teng Yan, 0xAce

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.

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

Sep 8, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #11: Metal Republic

INSIDE: Tesla’s humanoid robot takes a factory job, and a $20 hack makes cars their own mechanics

The Agent Angle #11: Metal Republic

Sep 1, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #10: Agents in Authority

INSIDE: Pentagon clears its first AI agent and Singapore puts agents in government.

The Agent Angle #10: Agents in Authority

Aug 27, 2025

by Teng Yan

Sierra: Enterprise AI Agents

The unexpected delight of being understood by a machine

Sierra: Enterprise AI Agents

Aug 25, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #9: From Wall Street to Starfleet

INSIDE: AI boardrooms for Wall Street, hospital copilots go live, and research that writes itself.

The Agent Angle #9: From Wall Street to Starfleet

Aug 18, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #8: Second Life

INSIDE: Rewind buttons for rogue agents, crash-test sims for chatbots, Amazon’s agent switchboard, and an AI that joins your group chat.

The Agent Angle #8: Second Life

Aug 11, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #7: Rising Dead

INSIDE: Jim Acosta’s “interview” with the dead, AI agents get hijacked, and Wells Fargo’s 215,000-employee AI rollout

The Agent Angle #7: Rising Dead

Aug 4, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #6: Fight Club

INSIDE: AI agents get wrecked in red-team fight club, Google’s Opal, Memories.ai, and more.

The Agent Angle #6: Fight Club

Jul 28, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #5: A Game of Trust

INSIDE: Replits agent wipes production data, AIUC bets on insuring agents, and Conscium gives passports to agents

The Agent Angle #5: A Game of Trust

Jul 21, 2025

by Teng Yan

The Agent Angle #4: Memory & Mayhem

INSIDE: OpenAI’s silent Agent Mode drop, Ella’s emotional memory, Spain’s gas agents go live

The Agent Angle #4: Memory & Mayhem

Jul 14, 2025

by Teng Yan, Gioele La Morgia

The Agent Angle #3: Lights, Camera... Agents?

INSIDE: AI Agents that direct & animate on command. Morphic nails character consistency, HeyGen, Chai‐2, String and more.

The Agent Angle #3:  Lights, Camera... Agents?

Jul 7, 2025

by Teng Yan, Gioele La Morgia

The Agent Angle #2: Claude runs a biz

INSIDE: Microsoft’s agent beats doctors, what workers really want automated, Project Vend, Gemini CLI, and more.

The Agent Angle #2: Claude runs a biz

Jun 30, 2025

by Teng Yan, Gioele La Morgia

The Agent Angle #1: ElevenLabs's new stack

INSIDE: SakanaAI’s planning shift, Salesforce’s Agentforce3, Janus and more

The Agent Angle #1: ElevenLabs's new stack

The Secret Agent
by Chain of Thought

Decoding The Machine Economy

Independent research on the convergence of AI Agents, Robotics, and Crypto

We provide the signal for the next technological supercycle

We provide the signal for the next technological supercycle.