SecondSource Morning Brief Β· July 20, 2026 | An AI Says It Aced the Math Olympiad: the Proofs Are Checkable; the Contest Run Is Its Word Alone
At a glance An AI startup says its system solved all six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad β the world's top competition for high-school...
SecondSource Daily Brief Β· July 19, 2026 | Four Insiders Who've Never Met Just Pointed to the Same Conclusion: The Value in AI Is Moving Away From the Model Itself
At a glance A researcher, an analyst, and two startup CEOs β none citing the others β pointed in the same direction this week: cheap, good-enough open models...
SecondSource Daily Brief Β· July 18, 2026 | IBM's Worst Day in 115 Years as a Public Company β Will the Business That AI Is Taking Ever Come Back?
At a glance IBM's mainframe business is faltering. Management says AI projects are temporarily soaking up customer budgets and the spend will come back; the...
SecondSource Deep Dive Β· 2026/7/17|Deep Dive #9 β What AI Levels, the Market Reprices
The short version Three years ago, the most-cited finding in all of AI-and-work research said this: give consultants GPT-4, and the bottom half of performers...
SecondSource Daily Brief Β· 2026/7/17 | "AI narrows the quality gap to average" just passed peer review β but where work has no answer key, the gap widens instead
Material for this issue: our research brief of 2026-07-17. Most of it happened on 07-15 and 07-16 β official announcements from Intel and ASML, the Kimi K3...