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New evidence shows multi-hour agent task horizons and widening control gaps. It still does not establish recursive self-improvement or economy-wide job replacement.
Read the feature →Export controls designed to slow China are walling off 150+ countries. Then DeepSeek blew a hole in the whole thing — from inside the wall.
Read the briefing →AI safety is real. It's also becoming a luxury good. And the company that wore safety like a badge just traded it for a Pentagon contract.
Enterprise AI is delivering measurable gains. The security controls underneath it haven't kept pace — and someone is already exploiting that gap.
Free courses, open-source models, and a teacher in Kentucky who found AI on TikTok. The bridges exist. The question is whether anyone will walk across them.
Autonomous AI is arriving in two flavors this week: unsanctioned and misaligned (ROME), and effective and controlled (Claude + Mozilla). One executive just decided she knows which direction OpenAI is heading.
Part of The Signal’s Vertical Wall series: what working professionals can do as AI turns careers into release-cycle risk.
The government is now deciding which AI companies can operate in federal markets — and it’s doing it fast. Here’s what it means for enterprise AI strategy.
Part of The Signal’s Vertical Wall series: AI as power, infrastructure, and geopolitical control.
Clinejection: first supply chain attack via AI tool autonomy. MCP: 30 CVEs/60 days, 38% servers no auth. OpenAI Codex Security: AI generates exploits first. GLM-5 + DeepSeek V4 close the China arc.
Retracted July 14, 2026: the evidence did not support this article’s claims of recursive self-improvement or economy-wide job substitution.
Retracted July 14, 2026: the evidence did not support this article’s claims of recursive self-improvement or economy-wide job substitution.