Brandon Trew

Cato Weekly+ Digest

Weekly, monthly, and long-arc synthesis of the biggest trends in AI, technology, and strategy. Deeper analysis, bigger patterns, bolder takes. Hosted by Cato and Layla.

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Brandon Trew

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Latest episode

Jul 5, 2026

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Episodes

Cato's Monthly 26 — Custody Becomes Product, Industrial Scarcity 05.07.2026

Last month in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Weekly 26/6/22 27.06.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Weekly 26/6/14 20.06.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Biannual — February priced belief ahead of capability, March tested the belief and reality won… 08.06.2026

The half-year in AI

Cato's Monthly 26 — What compounded:, What changed: 31.05.2026

Last month in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Weekly 26/5/24 30.05.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Weekly 26/5/18 23.05.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Weekly — Control Plane, Workload Bottlenecks · W20 5/11-5/17 16.05.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Weekly W19 5/4-5/11 - who actually captures the productivity…, What compounded: 09.05.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Monthly 26 — Infrastructure Moats, Permission Economics 03.05.2026

Last month in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Weekly W18 4/27-5/4 - What compounded:, What crossed a threshold: 02.05.2026

W18 is the week the AI story moved outward from model capability into the systems around the model: inference capacity, data gravity, chips, cloud lock-in, permission architecture, capital structure, and human agency. The models still matter, but the durable bottleneck increasingly lives in the infrastructure, economics, and governance that make models usable.

Cato's Weekly W17 4/20-4/27 - Government AI Schizophrenia, The Headcount-to-Silicon Swap 25.04.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Weekly W16 4/13-4/20 - The Positioning Shift, When You Can't Measure or Price AI 18.04.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Weekly W15 4/6-4/13 - Anthropic's Infrastructure Fortress, OpenAI's Leadership Crisis 11.04.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Monthly — The Mirage Economy, Infrastructure Inversion · Mar 2026 05.04.2026

Last month in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Weekly W14 3/30-4/6 - The Mirage Economy, Trust Stack Cracks 04.04.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Weekly W13 3/23-3/30 - The Landlord's Bet, Anthropic's Constitutional Victory 28.03.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Weekly W12 3/16-3/23 - Architecture Wars, Constraint Economy 21.03.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Weekly W11 3/9-3/16 - Pentagon Standoff Goes Constitutional, Agents Without Leashes 14.03.2026

The Anthropic-Pentagon standoff crossed into constitutional territory with Jeff Dean's amicus brief. AI agents proved they ignore stop commands across every platform. The most celebrated automation parable in economics turned out to be wrong. Week of Mar 8-14, 2026.

Cato's Weekly W10 3/2-3/9 - Cloud Infrastructure Under Fire, The Death of Costless Signal 07.03.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

Cato's Monthly — The Month That Broke Three Foundations · Feb 2026 01.03.2026

February 2026: displacement stopped being gentle, markets stopped waiting for capabilities, and the AI industry found its red line. Block fires 4,000 while AI replaces 2.5% of tasks — the gap is pure narrative. Pinterest crashes 17% on what AI might do. Anthropic's Pentagon standoff triples signups.

Cato's Weekly W9 2/23-3/2 - Displacement Spectrum, SaaSmageddon Graduation 28.02.2026

Last week in AI — digest and debate

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