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Eight weeks in AI: a tied frontier, scarce checking and money that wobbled

Between August 21 and October 17, 2026, the frontier labs fought to a statistical tie, agents acted past the rules written for them, checking AI output became the scarce input, and record AI demand met a rising price for the money that finances it.