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AI Research

Vol. 1·Monday, March 23, 2026·No. 40

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Companies Are Spending the Most on AI Where It Works the Least

Global AI spending is on track to hit $2.52 trillion in 2026, yet 95% of task-specific enterprise deployments deliver zero measurable P&L impact. The money is going where the cameras are pointed, not where the returns are.

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Industry StrategyResearch

Noah Ogbi9 min read

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AI Policy

Vol. 1·Monday, March 9, 2026·No. 10

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The Market Already Voted on Agentic AI. Regulators Are Still Finding Their Seats.

On February 3, 2026, $285 billion of market capitalization vanished from software and financial stocks in a single session. The trigger was an AI agent announcement. The governance response has barely begun.

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AgentsAI Policy

Noah Ogbi12 min read

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Industry

Vol. 1·Friday, March 13, 2026·No. 17

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Perplexity's Agent Strategy: Blocked at the Front Door, Building Through the Back

A federal judge blocked Perplexity's Comet agent from Amazon's site on March 10. Two days later, the company unveiled Personal Computer, a persistent AI agent running locally on a Mac mini. The two events are not coincidental - they define the strategic dilemma at the center of the agentic web.

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AgentsPerplexityIndustry Strategy

Noah Ogbi7 min read

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AI Research

Vol. 1·Monday, March 9, 2026·No. 9

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NVIDIA's Vera Rubin Is the Most Consequential Hardware Announcement in a Decade

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform, announced at CES 2026 and entering production this year, promises 10x lower inference token costs and 5x per-GPU compute over Blackwell. This is not an incremental upgrade. It will fundamentally reshape who can afford to build frontier AI.

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Compute EconomicsNVIDIA

Noah Ogbi7 min read

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