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The record so farEvery published edition · to Tue 10.20.2026

We show a Brier score once a brief has 20 graded forecasts. That's a floor for showing a number, not proof of accuracy or calibration: early scores can swing a lot, and a few dozen forecasts say little about the next one. A Brier score measures how close forecasts came to what happened: for each one, take the probability we gave, subtract the outcome (1 if it happened, 0 if not) and square it, then average. Lower is better. Zero is perfect, and calling every forecast 50% scores 0.25. Every number links to the edition or ledger behind it. Track records: Biotech, AI, Worldview.

01  Why read a brief written by AI?

Because you can check it.

It shows where it looked

Registries, filings, dockets, journals and data releases, linked and dated, so you can read what the brief read.

It shows its work

Key claims carry a label and a source: the document, the passage and a verdict. Partial and open verdicts get printed too.

It keeps score

Forecasts carry odds and a date, and get graded in public. Misses come first.

How it's made An AI system and workflow using expert agents writes every brief, working from editorial rules that set what to cover, which sources to trust and how to check a fact. An editor approves every edition before it's sent. Approval isn't a line-by-line check, so mistakes will get through. That's what the sources are for.

Why we built it The Architecture of Signal, the essay on holding machine-assisted analysis to its sources.

Why the name The name dates to 2020, when a few friends got talking about the causes they cared about. It's a club because you can ask, correct and check the record. Read why

02  Proof of work

Straight from the latest briefs.

One matched claim from each brief, as published. The record above counts every verdict, partial and open ones included, and each row links to its full table.

Claim Check sets a claim beside the evidence, such as the endpoint in the trial registry, and records what the evidence supports and what's still unresolved. A verdict covers that one claim. It isn't a quality score for the study or proof that a treatment works.

Claim CheckOne match from each brief

Biotech & Pharma IntelligenceEdition 025 · 10.20

Registry says
YMRS change, baseline to week 3. N=253. Primary completion 08.05.2026.
Headline says
3.1-point gap vs placebo at week 3 (p=0.045), N=253

Match

AI & Technology IntelligenceEdition 025 · 10.20

Primary document says
Revenue $18.5B to $19.5B vs $14.5B to $15.5B guide; gross margin 12.0% to 12.5%; unaudited
Headline says
Big beat on AI demand

Match

Global Citizen & Worldview IntelligenceEdition 004 · 10.17

Claim
9,277 confirmed Bundibugyo cases and 4,478 deaths in DR Congo
The passage
"reported a total of 9 277 confirmed cases, including 4 478 related deaths"

Match

Red Team / Blue TeamWorldview · Edition 002 · 10.03.2026

The proposition

Governments should freeze evictions of vulnerable tenants who have nowhere else to go until the housing shortage eases, as Spain's rejected decree would have done until 2030.

Blue team defends · Kautilya, Arthashastra

A state that lets its people fall into ruin weakens itself. An 87-year-old evicted with nowhere to go is the kind of visible ruin a competent state prevents.

Best evidence: in 2024, 28.1% of Spain's market-rate renters spent over 40% of disposable income on housing, against 19.2% across the EU. Fact

Red team attacks · Hayek, The Use of Knowledge in Society

Prices carry knowledge no planner has; when the state overrides them, people respond in ways it can't foresee. A four-year freeze tells owners to rent less.

Best evidence: in San Francisco, landlords whose buildings came under rent control cut the rental housing they supplied by 15% (American Economic Review, 2019). Fact

Where they really disagree Which margin counts: the tenant in front of us now, or the future tenant who never finds a flat. We don't pick a winner.

03  The shelf

Or read the whole thing.

The latest edition of each brief, as published. Subscribers get every past edition on the shelf, searchable by title.

  1. Cover of Edition 025, Biotech & Pharma Intelligence, Tuesday, October 20, 2026

    Biotech & Pharma Intelligence

    Edition 025 · FDA approves a drug that may spare rectal surgery

    Tuesday, October 20, 2026

    Read · PDF

  2. Cover of Edition 025, AI & Technology Intelligence, Tuesday, October 20, 2026

    AI & Technology Intelligence

    Edition 025 · Anthropic’s $80.7B loss is reportedly mostly paper

    Tuesday, October 20, 2026

    Read · PDF

  3. Cover of Edition 004, Global Citizen & Worldview Intelligence, Saturday, October 17, 2026

    Global Citizen & Worldview Intelligence

    Edition 004 · About 460 Ebola cases a week; Hormuz slips again

    Saturday, October 17, 2026

    Read · PDF

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Biotech Signal · New for Biotech & Pharma readers

Go beyond the brief.

Biotech Signal is a companion dashboard for biotech subscribers, covering trial catalysts, capital activity, therapeutic-area trends, and forecast records. Access is included with either biotech subscription option during the test flight.

  • Trial catalysts, graded A to F
  • Capital activity by area and deal type
  • Therapeutic-area and target trends
  • Forecast records, and how each one resolved

Choose Daily or Weekly Already subscribed? Open Biotech Signal

Biotech SignalSample

Signal index

58.0

Therapeutic-area momentum

Oncology65

Hematology63

Vaccines63

Genetic disease51

Immunology43

Trial catalysts

APhase 3 vaccine meets its co-primary endpoints

BFrontline lymphoma bispecific, interim PFS

DPhase 3 lung cancer drug misses central-review PFS

Catalysts · capital · forecasts · every row sourced

Sample · information only, not investment advice

04  The briefs

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Biotech & Pharma Intelligence

Science

What happened in biotech, what the evidence supports, and what to watch next.

Latest · Ed. 025FDA approves a drug that may spare rectal surgery

Included Biotech Signal The live dashboard behind the brief See what's on it
How often
Daily or weekly

AI & Technology Intelligence

Business

What AI can actually do, what changed, what it costs and where it fails.

Latest · Ed. 025Anthropic’s $80.7B loss is reportedly mostly paper

Inside

  • Five things to know
  • The Decoder: AI jargon in plain English
  • What you can use today, with sandbox experiments
  • Frontier AI, agents and scientific AI
  • AI x biotech reality check
How often
Weekly · Saturday

Global Citizen & Worldview Intelligence

Humanity

How the world changed this week, who can move it, and what would change the outlook.

Latest · Ed. 004About 460 Ebola cases a week; Hormuz slips again

Inside

  • The world in 5 minutes
  • The view from elsewhere
  • Follow the power
  • Red Team / Blue Team
  • Forecasting lab, scored in public

How often

One edition, Saturdays

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