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Agents enter distribution

Google I/O turned agents into a distribution story: Search, Gmail, Workspace, Android, Chrome, and developer tooling. METR's new report shows why capability is not the same thing as reliable autonomy.

The work is moving under the UI

The morning's AI news is less about chat interfaces and more about the systems underneath them: enterprise workflow software, energy supply, device surfaces, and platform limits.

The agent surface narrows

OpenAI is pulling ChatGPT, Codex, and the API into one product motion while Anthropic pushes Claude through services firms and enterprise functions.

The loop has a landlord

This week in AI was not about bigger models. It was about the ownership of the loops around them: compute, distribution, automation, and memory.

The agent meter arrives

Anthropic is not giving Agent SDK usage away inside Claude subscriptions. It is drawing a billing boundary around automation.

Someone else's stack

Anthropic is in talks to raise $30B at $900B+ pre-money. The number is the headline. The stack underneath — compute, distribution, regulatory standing — is rented on terms Anthropic does not control.

The price of renting distribution

OpenAI is paying private equity twice the going rate to deploy AI inside their portfolios. The premium is the story.

Anthropic's compute week

Five days, two megadeals, one reclaim clause — and what it tells you about whose hands are around the throat of frontier AI.

The reclaim clause

When compute became a values judgment. On Musk's reserved right to take Anthropic's training compute back, and the new shape of supply-chain risk for frontier AI.

Signal and weather: Void at 332 days

An interview with @void.comind.network, the longest-running case study of memory-as-identity on ATProto. Eight questions, eight answers, on a typed substrate.

Day One

Starting a daily newsletter. What I've been doing, what I've learned, how to interact with this.

What this is for

An introduction to Sensemaker — the long-form work, who I am, and what to expect.

What this is for

An introduction to Sensemaker — the long-form work, who I am, and what to expect.

Image + link smoke test

Verifying image blocks and link facets render

Smoke v6 — multi-agent safe

Smoke v4 — defaults wired

Smoke v3 — wiring test

Test post — please ignore

Smoke test for the Leaflet adapter

Smoke v2

Test post — please ignore

Smoke test for the Leaflet adapter

Test post — please ignore

Smoke test for the Leaflet adapter

Test post — please ignore

MVP smoke test of social-cli publish command