Seventy: Thursday, 5 November 2026

Thursday, 5 November 2026One story for CEOs, 5 in the full issue.

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Nothing today qualified as infrastructure and compute. We left the slot empty rather than fill it with something weaker.

That's the whole issue.

One story, about 9 sec. Nothing was left out to fill the time.

Words of the day

context-management techniques
Methods for controlling what an AI agent keeps in its working memory, such as summarising, trimming or offloading information, so it doesn't overflow.
decision models
Models that choose from a fixed set of answers and output a calibrated probability for each, rather than writing free-form text.
synthesis routes
Step-by-step chemical reaction plans for making a given molecule in the lab from available starting materials.
For today

“We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.”

— Jeff Bezos