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Week ofMarch 16 / 202605 stories / 3 bonus / ~29 min total

The Reading List.

Contents01OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo02Is 2026 the year AI...03What happens when AI companies...04From games to biology and...05What national AI plans get...
01
Read Wednesday
Buckettools
LevelAccessible
SourceOpenAI
Read3 min

OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo

OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo to make security testing and evaluation a default part of building “AI coworkers” in OpenAI Frontier. The signal here is operational: prompt-injection, jailbreaks, data leaks, and tool misuse are moving from “edge cases” to baseline controls enterprises will expect before agents touch real systems.

Read on OpenAI ->
# security# evaluation# agents
02
Read Sunday
Bucketbusiness
LevelIntermediate
SourceMcKinsey
Read6 min

Is 2026 the year AI changes real estate?

McKinsey’s thesis is that real estate is crossing from “AI pilots” (summaries, drafting, lookup) into agentic automation that can run end-to-end workflows with humans supervising. The useful operating-model takeaway: the ROI shows up only when leaders redesign the whole workflow (ownership, controls, handoffs), not when they bolt AI onto one task.

Read on McKinsey ->
# agentic# workflows# operations
03
Read Friday
Bucketregulation
LevelAccessible
SourceBrookings Institution
Read7 min

What happens when AI companies compete with their customers?

Brookings lays out the platform conflict as model providers move “up the stack” into applications and workflows, putting them in direct competition with the developers and companies that depend on their APIs. The practical risk for builders is dependency: pricing, access, and product “feature parity” can change when your supplier also wants to own the customer relationship.

Read on Brookings Institution ->
# competition# platforms# antitrust
04
Read Wednesday
Bucketmodels
LevelAccessible
SourceGoogle DeepMind
Read6 min

From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact

DeepMind uses AlphaGo’s 10-year mark to explain how search + reinforcement learning evolved into a set of reusable “problem-solving primitives” that now show up in science work (e.g., protein folding) and formal reasoning systems. The point isn’t nostalgia—it’s a clean explanation of how one breakthrough architecture can seed multiple capability lines over time.

Read on Google DeepMind ->
# research# reinforcement-learning# search
05
/ LEADRead Sunday
Bucketregulation
LevelIntermediate
SourceBrookings Institution
Read7 min

What national AI plans get wrong and how to fix them

Brookings argues most national AI strategies over-invest in generic “capacity building” (compute, models) and under-invest in the harder part: embedding AI into real sectors where value is created. Their fix is “cognitive infrastructure”—data, institutions, talent, and domain expertise—aligned to what a country already does well so AI adoption becomes compounding rather than symbolic.

Read on Brookings Institution ->
# policy# sovereignty# infrastructure

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