Every Browser a Node: LLMlet and the Coming Age of Peer-to-Peer AI Inference
LLMlet turns browser tabs into cooperating inference peers—a compelling experiment that also exposes the real limits of distributed AI at the edge.
Compass Record
Intelligence Archive
Browse every published briefing, essay, report, and signal in reverse chronological order.
The Pattern Five Stories Are Hiding
Five signals across war, autonomous AI, defense-cloud assurance, prediction markets, and digital identity reveal the same contest: who gets to act, who verifies the act, and who bears the consequences.
Compass Strategic Intelligence Scorecard — February 24, 2026
The February 24 scorecard follows selective AI-linked market strength, agentic payments, geopolitical and tariff pressure, cartel succession, and policy-to-infrastructure convergence to show how early signals evolved without inventing retrospective certainty.
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The Model That Broke the Pricing Wall
GLM-5.2 is not proof that premium AI pricing has vanished. It is evidence that open access, serving innovation, and provider competition are forcing the market to defend its old assumptions.
Daily Brief
Daily Brief: AI, Tech & Markets — July 8, 2026
GPT-5.6 launches Thursday. US–Iran ceasefire collapses. Oil spikes 6%. Samsung posts 19× profits but chips sell off. Anthropic projects $1B Q3 profit.
Strategic Insights
Device Telemetry Is Replacing Simple Geofencing in Streaming Enforcement
Geofencing is shifting from IP checks to device telemetry. The YouTube TV GPS thread is the preview.
Evening Briefing
Evening Briefing: Five Signals for March 4, 2026
Retail narrative coordination, tariffs as liabilities, a new Flash, performative risk, and the 401(k) labor signal — plus a clean execution forecast for tomorrow.
Signal Intelligence
Open-Source Intel Is Growing Up in Real Time
Open-source verification is becoming a public workflow as OSINT methods move from niche tradecraft into institutional and civilian habit.
AI Infrastructure
Qwen 3.5 Just Made Enterprise AI a Laptop Problem
Qwen 3.5 turns enterprise AI from a hyperscaler privilege into a deployability question, widening the market for governed local inference.
Signal Intelligence
Morning Briefing: March 6, 2026 | Jobs Shock, Gas, and the Cost of Drift
The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February. Economists expected a gain of 50,000. Gas prices hit their highest point under this administration. The Iran conflict is running at $1 billion a day. And overnight, Anthropic found 14 high-severity bugs in Firefox that two decades of testing had missed.