Vol. I · No. 18THU, MAY 7, 2026
Section · The Wire

The Wire

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Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off

Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong.

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Did you notice any improvements?

Reddit discussion asking whether Claude models show performance improvements; lacks substantive technical detail.

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