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The Scroll is a twice-weekly digest of AI news, research, and industry moves — with an emphasis on what actually shows up in products, organizations, and real workflows.
Latest IssueApr 21, 2026
Recent Briefings
Tech Talent, Battery Pivots, and Byte-Level Models
The Trump administration recruits tech workers after mass layoffs, Ford bets on batteries for data centers, and Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 with a new hybrid architecture.
Chips to China, Synthetic Research, and AI's Grand Mystery
The Commerce Department greenlights H200 exports to China, a startup gets a $1B 'headline' valuation with creative math, and NeurIPS grapples with the interpretability problem.
The Model Wars Heat Up
Google's Gemini 2.0 arrives with agentic ambitions, OpenAI drops o1 for the masses, and the real story is what happens when these models hit production.
Enterprise AI Gets Real
Salesforce bets big on agents, Microsoft quietly ships Copilot improvements, and we're starting to see what 'AI transformation' actually looks like in practice.
Agents Are Coming (Slowly)
Everyone's talking about AI agents, but the gap between demos and deployments is measured in years, not months.
The Inference Cost Reckoning
As AI moves from experiments to production, the economics are getting scrutinized. Turns out, cheap demos don't mean cheap deployments.
Safety vs. Speed
The industry is grappling with a real tension: ship fast to stay competitive, or slow down for safety. Most are choosing speed.
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