#2 · 15 June 2026 · Cautiously optimistic
The question stopped being which model is smartest. It became: who owns the loop?
This week the people building AI quietly changed the subject, from whose model wins to who owns the stack around it. The mood is still cautiously optimistic, but the smart money is moving from renting intelligence to controlling it, while the loudest optimist of all turns cautious on governance.
#1 · 8 June 2026 · Cautiously optimistic
This week, the people building AI mostly agreed: the agents are here.
Our first weekly read on what the people building AI are actually saying, with every claim linked to its source. The mood is bullish: agents in production, compute scaling hard, and investors calling it an economic miracle. The clearest caution comes from Anthropic on the safety side.