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Recent Briefings
Anthropic anchors today's edition with a simultaneous release of Fable 5.1, a major small-business workflow expansion, and new Claude Code routing infrastructure. Also crossing the desk: a Nature pape…
The 10-year Treasury yield's climb past 5% sets the stage for Wednesday's Fed decision, alongside a wave of new research quantifying exactly why current agent-tool interfaces fail in production and ho…
With Wednesday's Fed meeting already priced for a quarter-point hike, markets are looking past the decision to the 2027 terminal rate. We also review a massive 31-billion-token usage report from an in…
Today on The Primary Source: a production workspace audit reveals context re-reads account for 68% of agentic AI burn rates, fundamentally altering how developers should forecast API spend. We also ex…
In this edition: OpenAI's new public beta turns custom agent infrastructure into a zero-fee managed service, a local proxy exploits Anthropic's image pricing for a 70% discount on text context, and ma…
Agentic cache pricing just collapsed by two orders of magnitude courtesy of a new Chinese model. Elsewhere in this edition: the USPS inspector general confirms a decade of network restructuring has fa…
Today on The Primary Source: the expanded Treasury bond buyback we've been tracking faced its first major market test and failed to suppress yields. We also review a class-action lawsuit over Anthropi…
Today on The Primary Source: OpenAI's Navier-Stokes breakthrough arrives tangled in allegations of coercion and research appropriation, a federal advisory names six Chinese labs in an industrial-scale…
Today on The Primary Source: OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra arrives with benchmark scores that intensify the race for scientific and coding workloads, right as developers catalog the fundamental structural flaw…
The gap between frontier AI sticker prices and actual production workloads has widened enough to demand a new measurement discipline, and today's edition maps out where that tooling is being built. El…