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The Cognitive Revolution

Sequoia Konstantine Buhler 2 September 2026, 00:00

The article argues that Waymo cars and other tools are already shifting work from humans to machines, extending the same pattern that mechanized physical labor during the Industrial Revolution.

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We externalized our muscles and built the modern world. Now we are externalizing our minds.

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Anthropic’s IPO momentum dominated today’s AI news, and the details read like a pitch built for CFOs, not just researchers. The company told investors its third-quarter revenue hit $16.8 billion, up about 46% quarter over quarter and nearly 50% in the story’s framing, putting it on a clear path toward public-market scrutiny. Crucially for the valuation talk, distillation—how labs compress and reuse model knowledge—contributed only 5% to 7% of revenue before being “cut back materially” in Q3, shifting the mix away from spending and dependencies that other labs leaned on. An early backer’s market-odds math expects shares priced around $1.8 trillion with a trading value of $2.3 to $2.4 trillion, even comparing that jump to SpaceX’s roughly $2.1 trillion opening-day market cap.

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