10 Jul 2026
Signal Headquarters

Today’s Edition

Today in the discourse
9 Jul

Adam Mosseri on the danger of letting AI take control in human-AI collaboration.

9 Jul

Adam Mosseri on the gap between what users say they want and what data shows they actually prefer.

9 Jul

Jeff Currie on AI breaking the zero marginal cost assumption because it consumes physical raw materials.

9 Jul

Glenn Fogel dismisses the concept of a competitive moat in the age of AI-driven innovation.

9 Jul

Adam Mosseri on the limits of AI for strategy generation.

9 Jul

Jeff Currie on why the renewable energy grid race has nothing to do with the environment.

8 Jul

Brent Donnelly on the information-confidence trap for traders.

8 Jul

Ben Carlson on prediction markets as falsehood machines.

8 Jul

Brent Donnelly on where trading edge now lives, short-term human flow over macro policy calls.

8 Jul

Alex Wiltschko on the current state of chemical sensing infrastructure.

8 Jul

Brent Donnelly on Bitcoin losing all coherent narratives among mainstream market participants.

8 Jul

Jason Lemkin on the COVID-era software buying boom being a historical fluke.

The consensus forming

Worth quoting
“You're spending a trillion dollars a year and the revenue on AI talk about maybe 70 80 billion.”
Rajiv Jain
“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development.”
Jason Calacanis
“You cannot sell Bitcoin. If you are selling Bitcoin, the whole system breaks.”
Michael Saylor
“The most high value product of the Ethereum blockchain financially speaking is ETH the asset.”
Chris Berniski
“It's not the P that's the bubble, it's the E.”
Andy Constan
“It's not the stress that burns us down, it's the response to stress.”
Martin Picard

From the desk

By the numbers

Booking Holdings repurchased approximately 40% of its outstanding shares over roughly 12 years.

Tool watch

Instagram's new 'product staff' role (an evolution of the traditional PM) can perform design, data science, and research tasks using internal AI tools, signaling a structural collapse of specialist roles inside large tech teams.

Best explained

Why social media algorithms are less semantically sophisticated than users assume: they rely on illegible embedding vectors, not detailed models of user interests.