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- Sunday, October 4, 2026
Overheard in the Bay, Sunday, October 4, 2026The White House has ordered every federal agency to stop saying "AI" and start saying "SI," on the grounds that frontier systems now represent "not merely artificial intelligence but a new super intel
- Friday, October 2, 2026
Overheard in the Bay, Friday, October 2, 2026Instinct, the "viral" personal AI agent, raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue. That is four times the $2.5 billion it was worth in August, when it raised $35