Digest 8 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-07-09

Cursor's usage data reveals a steep power law among AI-assisted engineers and confirms that agents spend far more tokens reading code than writing it. Context processing and caching are becoming core infrastructure concerns.
Digest 6 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-07-08

Chinese technology companies are closing the AI performance gap with domestic chips, competitive frontier models, and AI-first engineering practices. The result is an increasingly self-sufficient stack spanning silicon, models, and software development.
Research Explainers 7 min read

AI Delegation Is a Management Choice, Not a Capability Test

A study of 199 startup founders suggests AI adoption depends as much on managerial willingness to delegate work as on beliefs about model capability. This explainer shows why adoption is a management-design choice, not simply a technology-readiness test.
Research Explainers 7 min read

AI Adoption Fails When Firms Cannot Map It to Work

A field experiment with 515 startups suggests AI creates firm-level gains when teams learn where to reorganize work around it, rather than merely gaining access to tools. This explainer connects adoption outcomes to workflow mapping, experimentation, and organizational change.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Will Brown

Will Brown leads research at Prime Intellect on open-source infrastructure for agentic reinforcement learning. His work shows why capable agents depend less on clever prompts than on reusable environments, reliable reward signals, and feedback systems where models can act and improve.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Vincent Weisser

Vincent Weisser co-founded Prime Intellect to make advanced AI infrastructure more open and collectively accessible. His work connects distributed compute, open model development, and decentralized science through one question: how should markets and governance distribute technological power?
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Pim de Witte

Pim de Witte built Medal before founding General Intuition, an AI lab developing world models and agents. His work explores how action-labeled gameplay data can train spatial-temporal intelligence, revealing a path from consumer platforms to embodied AI systems.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Ido Portal

Ido Portal is an Israeli movement teacher and founder of Movement Culture, treating the body as a field for learning. His broad practice asks what humans can still learn to do, replacing isolated exercise with movement intelligence.

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