The Neural Daily 2026-05-28: Spud Agents and AI Slop

The "Agentic" takeover is officially here as enterprises ditch copilots for autonomous bots, leaving us to navigate the thin line between peak efficiency and high-priced "AI slop." Dive into the fallout of the "Google Zero" search apocalypse, the rise of $46,000 executive smartphones, and why GPT-5.5 "Spud" is aggressively rewriting the rules of the open web. It’s a high-velocity look at a new "Answer Economy" where the robots are finally starting to sign the checks.