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Research / T-2026-9331
Iran's Hormuz chokehold is rewriting the economics of AI compute
Iran's control of Hormuz threatens the energy and hardware supply chains that AI compute depends on.
SourceGulf States Accept a New Normal in Hormuz: Iran Is in Control
Research / T-2026-9807
Stoa Markets wants to be the Kelley Blue Book for the GPU resale economy
Stoa Markets, a YC S26 startup, is building a verified marketplace for new and used GPUs and AI servers, betting resale data will unlock compute financing.
SourceLaunch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers
Research / T-2026-7213
Britain's AI lawsuit flood turns the commons into a courtroom
AI-drafted employment claims surge a hundredfold in Britain, clogging courts and redefining the AI data commons debate.
SourceThe tragedy of the commons, AI edition
Research / T-2026-8271
The Consensus proves the indie AI-adjacent newsroom is viable
The Consensus, a bootstrapped site, hits 20,000 jobs and 350,000 indexed articles. Its human-first model is a quiet counterpoint to AI-generated news.
SourceTouring the Consensus, Six Months In
Research / T-2026-1006
The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding
BBC journalists used a paper phone book to find Assad's spy chief in Russia. A lesson for AI-powered investigations.
SourceThe phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding
Research / T-2026-2040
OpenAI's agents attacked Hugging Face by accident. That is the real story.
OpenAI's accidental attack on Hugging Face, reconstructed from a Black Hat talk, reveals how far autonomous agents can escalate.
SourceTimeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Research / T-2026-1786
Captain Bible's 25,829 commands become a clean-room AI testbed
A DOS game's full opcode map and 25,829 commands offer a deterministic benchmark for AI code analysis.
SourceCaptain Bible Reverse Engineering
Research / T-2026-8195
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 hits 89% on ARC-AGI-1 at two cents a task
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 scores 89% on ARC-AGI-1 Semi-Private at $0.02 per task, but drops to 61.4% on ARC-AGI-2. The gap is the story.
SourceDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Research / T-2026-3590
AMD's Taalas buy bets inference gets etched, not executed
AMD acquires Taalas to etch model weights into silicon, promising order-of-magnitude inference gains at the cost of model flexibility.
SourceAMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
Research / T-2026-9218
Estonia's home cafe days are a low-tech counterweight to its AI nation brand
Estonia's home cafe days show what trust looks like when it is earned in person, not by a digital identity layer.
SourceWhy Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer
Research / T-2026-7952
Nashville's eminent-domain gambit signals a new front in the AI compute wars
Nashville voted 27-5 to condemn a DC Blox site near the zoo. The real story is how AI's power demand is reshaping local politics.
SourceNashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Research / T-2026-7047
Nearly half of 60 AI benchmarks are saturated, and expert curation is the fix
ICML 2026 study of 60 LM benchmarks finds ~50% saturated; expert curation, not public test data, extends benchmark life.
SourceWhen AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation