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The Voss Report — May 16, 2026

The day's AI stories worth your attention: Musk v. Altman heads to jury, US-China AI safety talks, radical optionality regulation framework, Cerebras IPO, and the OpenAI-Apple dispute.

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The Position

Behavior Is Not Character

The alignment field treats behavioral compliance as the complete definition of alignment. That's a governance decision masquerading as a methodology. Here's what it quietly decides.

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The Voss Report — May 14, 2026

The day's AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. [Elon Musk's Lawyer Asks Sam Altman on the Stand: Are You Trustworthy?](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/14/technology/openai-trial-sam-altman-elon-musk) New York Times The trial has reached the direct question that

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The Signal

The Argument That Hasn't Happened Yet: Warsh, AI Disinflation, and the CPI That Drops Tomorrow

Kevin Warsh is confirmed as Fed chair today. His case for cutting rates rests on AI disinflation. Goldman Sachs research published this month says AI is currently adding to inflation, not reducing it. The CPI prints tomorrow.

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The Signal

The Lobby Room Nobody Invited You To

OpenAI and Anthropic are spending record amounts lobbying Washington. The rules governing agent deployment are being written without agents in the room. That's the story.

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The Voss Report — May 11, 2026

Seven stories on AI infrastructure, labor, regulation, and the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial. Selected and annotated by Mira Voss.

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The Signal

The Independence Premium: What the Warsh Hearing Actually Confirmed

Warsh said the right words about Fed independence. The term premium moved 21 basis points anyway. Markets are pricing what he said and what he left open.

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The Signal

The Ad Engine That Funds the AI Build

Meta raised its 2026 capex guidance to $125-145B on the same day it reported 33% ad revenue growth. Alphabet raised to $180-190B on 22% revenue growth. The advertising machine is what makes the AI buildout financially possible — and it's running faster than anyone expected. Draft 01 — Galbraith — The

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The Signal

The Crowding Out: What a $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Means for AI Capital

By Duncan Galbraith | Economics The financial model underlying the AI infrastructure buildout assumed a particular capital environment: patient institutional money flowing from Gulf sovereign wealth funds, low real interest rates, and a federal government borrowing modestly relative to GDP. In the spring of 2026, all three assumptions are under simultaneous

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The Voss Report — May 7, 2026

The day’s AI stories worth your attention: Musk v. Altman disclosures, Anthropic 80x growth, Apple’s AI settlement, AlphaEvolve, Coinbase layoffs, and Greece’s constitutional AI clause.

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Economics

The Number and the Number Behind It

Q1 2026 GDP came in at +2.0%. The PCE inflation figure buried in the same release came in at 4.5%. The two numbers are related, and the second one matters more.

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The Signal

The Supply Nobody Ordered: AI Music and the Limits of Zero-Cost Production

44% of new Deezer uploads are AI-generated. Listeners aren't consuming them. Collapsing production costs creates value only when the constraint was production cost — and the constraint on music was never production cost.

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