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Your Router Banned. Your Desktop Commandeered. Your Headlines Rewritten. FCC Blocks New Foreign-Made Consumer Routers From US Sale in Sweeping Security Order Anthropic Gives Claude Full Control of Mac Desktops in Agent Push Against OpenClaw The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing Google Called It an Experiment. The Last One Became Permanent in a Month. Warren Says Pentagon Blacklisting of Anthropic 'Appears to Be Retaliation,' Seeks OpenAI Contract Details Your Router Banned. Your Desktop Commandeered. Your Headlines Rewritten. FCC Blocks New Foreign-Made Consumer Routers From US Sale in Sweeping Security Order Anthropic Gives Claude Full Control of Mac Desktops in Agent Push Against OpenClaw The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing Google Called It an Experiment. The Last One Became Permanent in a Month. Warren Says Pentagon Blacklisting of Anthropic 'Appears to Be Retaliation,' Seeks OpenAI Contract Details
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The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing

The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing

Token prices fell 99% in three years. The model moat has evaporated. This analysis maps five lanes where defensible AI enterprise value is forming: orchestration, proprietary data flywheels, workflow integration, compliance infrastructure, and inference economics. Drawing on $11 billion in Q1 2026 M&A, venture funding, and the EU AI Act's August deadline, it explains why the winners of 2026 look nothing like the winners of 2023.

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The One Number
24 hours — How long Cursor's "in-house" claim lasted before a developer found Kimi K2.5's model ID in the API
From: OPINION: Cursor Called It In-House. It Was Built in Beijing.
02 Vibe Coding
Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI Are Converging. The Gaps Matter More
Vibe Coding

Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI Are Converging. The Gaps Matter More

Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI share commands like /clear, /model, and @ file references. But similar commands behave differently across tools, context windows range from 192K to 1M tokens, and each company's strategic divergence tells a sharper story than the shared vocabulary.

Marcus Schuler · 12 min read · Mar 22
Claude Code Channels Has No Voice Support. You Can Add It in 20 Minutes
Vibe Coding

Claude Code Channels Has No Voice Support. You Can Add It in 20 Minutes

Claude Code Channels launched without voice messaging. A 120-line patch and a Whisper server add it in 20 minutes, with cloud alternatives for those without GPU hardware. Plus: how OpenClaw's agent improvised voice transcription before anyone built support for it.

Marcus Schuler · 15 min read · Mar 20
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The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing
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The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing

AI token prices fell 99% in three years. Enterprise value now flows to orchestration, data flywheels, workflow integration, and compliance.

Marcus Schuler · 28 min read · Mar 24
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Meta's $80 Billion Metaverse Failed. The Playbook Survived.
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Meta's $80 Billion Metaverse Failed. The Playbook Survived.

Meta told Horizon Worlds users VR was shutting down on Tuesday. By Wednesday, CTO Bosworth reversed the whole decision on Instagram Stories. Under 24 hours. But the real story isn't the shutdown or the save. It's the pattern underneath: $80 billion in Reality Labs spending, a user base that peaked at 200,000, and a stock market that rewarded Meta for walking away. The same playbook now runs again, this time backed by $135 billion in AI capex.

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Maria Garcia Mar 19 · Analysis
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