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Friday · June 5, 2026 · Issue No. 886
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Long-form arguments about where AI is taking work, money, and power.

Slower than the briefings. Sharper than the consensus. Written by Anthony Batt and Harry DeMott.

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The Livestream That Made 543,000 People Realize We’re Cooked
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The Livestream That Made 543,000 People Realize We’re Cooked

I was one of the 543,000 people that watched robots work a warehouse shift on a live stream and nobody was celebrating....

Anthony Batt · May 14, 2026
Apple’s Real Move and Why They Win The AI Race
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Apple’s Real Move and Why They Win The AI Race

Anthony Batt · May 13, 2026
Diamond Hands Are Bidding On Pez Dispensers. The Husks Are About To Run.
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Diamond Hands Are Bidding On Pez Dispensers. The Husks Are About To Run.

Harry DeMott · May 5, 2026
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Stop Boarding Up the Windows. The Tsunami Is Coming.

Harry DeMott · Mar 3, 2026
The command line didn’t die. It was waiting. 
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The command line didn’t die. It was waiting. 

Anthony Batt · Feb 24, 2026
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AI and Jobs: What Three Decades of Building Tech Taught Me About What’s Coming

Anthony Batt · Feb 12, 2026
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The Species That Wasn’t Ready 

Harry DeMott · Feb 12, 2026
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Six ideas from the Musk-Dwarkesh podcast I can’t stop thinking about

Anthony Batt · Feb 9, 2026
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The machines bought Super Bowl airtime and we rank them

Anthony Batt · Feb 8, 2026
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The Developer Productivity Paradox

Anthony Batt · Feb 3, 2026
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The Lobsters Are Talking

Anthony Batt · Feb 3, 2026
ChatGPT 5 – When Your AI Friend Gets a Corporate Makeover
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ChatGPT 5 – When Your AI Friend Gets a Corporate Makeover

Anthony Batt · Aug 13, 2025
Anthropic Claude 4 release
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Anthropic Claude 4 release

Anthony Batt · May 22, 2025
How Sam Altman just executed the tech industry’s most audacious talent heist
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How Sam Altman just executed the tech industry’s most audacious talent heist

Anthony Batt · May 22, 2025
Google IO 2025 generative AI tools look impressive
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Google IO 2025 generative AI tools look impressive

Anthony Batt · May 20, 2025
The “AI-First” rise will define business winners through 2030
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The “AI-First” rise will define business winners through 2030

Anthony Batt · May 7, 2025
Vibe coding: The term that finally captured our AI reality
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Vibe coding: The term that finally captured our AI reality

Anthony Batt · May 3, 2025
Physical AI changes everything
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Physical AI changes everything

Dominik Sansevere · Apr 14, 2025
How Google’s Agent2Agent protocol could transform business
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How Google’s Agent2Agent protocol could transform business

Anthony Batt · Apr 12, 2025
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