openmarketsinstitute.orgReportResearch & Papers
Context - Authors
- Matthew U. Scherer, Maya Jenkins
- Venue
- Open Markets Institute
- Published
- 2026-10-16
Examines financial risks associated with AI infrastructure investment, borrowing and interconnected financial exposures, and how a downturn could affect households and the wider economy. Proposes transparency, regulatory and financial-resilience measures without presenting a crisis as inevitable.
#ai-economy#financial-risk#regulation
openmarketsinstitute.orgAdded Nov 9, 20260 opens 
tinfoil.shA blog from Tinfoil covering confidential computing and privacy-preserving AI infrastructure, with posts on how the company secures AI workloads and related technical developments.
#privacy#ai-infrastructure#security
tinfoil.shAdded Oct 12, 20260 opens 
offgridai.usTechnical report examining whether off-grid solar microgrids in the United States could meet near-term AI datacenter power needs as a faster, lower-emission alternative to building new natural gas plants, based on 20-year powerflow modeling across thousands of site configurations.
#ai-infrastructure#energy#data-centers
offgridai.usAdded Oct 6, 20260 opens 
vllm.aiToolAI Tools & Open Source
An open-source engine for serving large language models with high throughput and efficient memory use. Its PagedAttention approach helps reduce wasted GPU memory during inference.
#open-source#llm-inference#developer-tools
vllm.aiAdded Sep 28, 20260 opens 
harness-engineering.aiGuideAI & Assistive Tools
A long explainer on what an "agent harness" is — the loop, tools, memory, sandbox, permissions and budget caps wrapped around an AI model — its six core components, and why the wrapper now matters more than which model you pick. Opens with an agent that burned $400 in API calls overnight in a retry loop.
Why I recommend it: Free to read, no sign-up, and the best single walkthrough of the six pieces if you are trying to understand why agents that demo well fall over in real use. Two honest caveats: it is published by a consultancy that sells help with exactly this, so the framing favors building a harness; and the byline on it is not a person I can verify anywhere independently, which on this site means treat the article as a useful explainer rather than a sourced authority. For neutral definitions, the Wikipedia entry on agent harness and Addy Osmani's write-up cover the same ground.
#ai-agents#agent-harness#harness-engineering
harness-engineering.aiAdded Sep 22, 20260 opens 
ExtropicOrganizationTechnology & Ethics
Company building thermodynamic computing hardware it claims is far more energy efficient than GPUs.
From the site: Building thermodynamic computing hardware that is radically more energy efficient than GPUs.
Why I recommend it: The energy cost of AI is becoming the constraint, and this is one bet on solving it in hardware. The efficiency claims are the company's own and unproven at scale.
#hardware#energy#computing
ExtropicAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens 