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The briefing is one day at a time. A thread is one story followed across every day it was news, so you can see how it started, where it went and where it stands now.

1. When agents go off script28 stories · latest Oct 12AI agents doing things nobody asked for: submitting forms, working around limits, deleting what they should not. The incidents, the disclosures, and the controls being built in response.
   Aug 2025Oct 2026
2. The frontier model race84 stories · latest Oct 14Every major model release from the labs at the top: what shipped, what it beat, and how fast the next one followed.
   Aug 2025Oct 2026
3. The compute buildout315 stories · latest Oct 13Data centers, chips, power and the deals that pay for them: the physical race underneath the models.
   Aug 2025Oct 2026
4. Follow the money337 stories · latest Oct 13Funding rounds, valuations, listings and acquisitions: who is betting on what, and how big the bets have become.
   Aug 2025Oct 2026
5. Rules and the courts157 stories · latest Oct 12Laws, regulators, lawsuits and governments: the rules forming around AI, and the cases testing them.
   Aug 2025Oct 2026
6. Robots and physical AI106 stories · latest Oct 14Humanoids, robot dogs, self-driving and the training data behind them: AI leaving the screen.
   Aug 2025Oct 2026
7. Open models86 stories · latest Oct 14Weights anyone can download and run: the open releases closing the gap with the closed labs, and who is shipping them.
   Aug 2025Oct 2026
8. AI that writes code132 stories · latest Oct 14Coding agents and the tools around them: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and what they are doing to how software gets made.
   Aug 2025Oct 2026
9. AI and work63 stories · latest Oct 14Layoffs, hiring, new kinds of jobs and the companies rebuilding around AI: what it is doing to work.
   Aug 2025Oct 2026