Research Sweeps
Multi-lane research syntheses
Deep reads across financial press, frontier labs, academia, VC, and independent analysis — distilled into briefs with full source tables.
2026-04-30 · deep
Agentic Engineering And Enterprise Architecture Discipline
Agentic engineering after Andrej Karpathy's vibe coding meme, April 2025-April 2026: how AI coding agents are changing enterprise software engineering across security, testability, reliability, maintainability, availability, resilience, observability, operability, cost, recovery, and engineering governance.
- frontier
- academic
- vc
- +3
2026-04-24 · deep
Engineering AI Control Plane
Engineering AI control planes for software delivery from July 1, 2025 through April 24, 2026: how teams implement AI across development workflows and CI/CD, choose tools/models/SDKs, govern observability and compliance, manage reliability and provider availability, and handle cognitive debt, dark code, case studies, success stories, and failure modes across team size, company scale, and greenfield versus brownfield systems
- financial
- frontier
- academic
- +3
2026-04-19 · deep
Quantum Computing Foundations — A Briefing Note with Sources
Quantum computing fundamentals briefing — error correction, hardware architectures, computational advantage, and where the field stands — key papers, expert commentary, and lab progress from January 2023 to April 2026
- academic
- frontier
- blogs
2026-04-19 · deep
Token Cost of Ownership
AI token pricing vs true total cost of ownership from January 2023 to 19 April 2026, with emphasis on 2025–2026 signals: lab subsidisation strategies, infrastructure economics (compute, energy, data centres, hardware, security, ops), how user-facing prices have evolved, and analyst and researcher projections for token cost trajectories through 2028.
- financial
- frontier
- academic
- +2
2026-04-19 · shallow
The Karpathy Loop — AI Agents Running Autonomous Training Experiments
The "Karpathy loop" — autonomous AI agent research cycles that run and evaluate ML training experiments to discover improvements, April 2025–April 19 2026, including Karpathy's own explanations, independent commentary, and real-world implementations
- frontier
- blogs
- tech
2026-04-18 · deep
Quantum Computing Advances — State of the Field 2025–2026
Quantum computing advances, quantum advantage benchmarks, real-world applications, and programming interfaces for business and consumer use — April 2025 to April 2026
- frontier
- academic
- vc
- +2
2026-04-17 · deep
Agentic AI's Impact on Technology Operating Models and Architecture
Agentic AI's impact on enterprise technology operating models and architecture (January 2025–April 17th 2026): what stays (API infrastructure, data governance, SDLC controls), what shifts (DevOps as the new control plane, testing and rollback at agent speed, dark-code and agentic tech-debt governance), and whether frontier models like Anthropic's Mythos become embedded in CI/CD pipelines for security, code review, and release control
- financial
- frontier
- academic
- +3
2026-04-15 · standard
The SaaS-pocalypse — AI Displacement, Overhiring Hangover, or Multiple Compression?
The 2026 SaaS sector stress: testing whether weak SaaS revenue growth and stock performance are driven by AI displacing knowledge-work jobs, post-ZIRP overhiring correction, compression of growth-era revenue multiples, or macro tech-capex slowdown — January 2026 through April 2026.
- financial
- academic
- vc
- +1
2026-04-13 · standard
Enterprise LLM Vendor Selection and Consumption Models
Enterprise LLM vendor selection and consumption patterns (April 2025–present): how companies choose between OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, hyperscaler-hosted model access, and direct API relationships; what decision metrics they use across availability, quality, price, governance, and SLAs; and how adoption differs by company size, workload criticality, and realtime versus offline use cases
- financial
- frontier
- academic
- +2
2026-04-13 · deep
AI Dark Code — Organisational Accountability and Control
AI-generated and agent-produced code ("dark code") in enterprise settings June 2025–April 2026: organisational accountability structures, failure and adaptation of established management frameworks, technical and governance controls, observability and discoverability of agent logic, and documented outcomes from early enterprise adoption.
- financial
- frontier
- academic
- +2
2026-04-09 · standard
Enterprise Agentic AI Adoption Criteria
Enterprise agentic AI adoption in operational processes November 2025–present: procurement criteria, model drift risk, version stability, availability SLAs, and how enterprises manage dependency on AI vendors in production workflows
- financial
- frontier
- academic
- +1
2026-04-08 · deep
AI 2027 Milestone Tracker
AI 2027 report milestone tracking (January 2025–present): which predicted capabilities have shipped across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI, and major enterprise adopters; what remains unshipped or contradicted; and what near-term signals suggest for agentic AI, safety frameworks, autonomy, and deployment timelines
- financial
- frontier
- academic
- +2