Your Daily Gist — February 25, 2026

Welcome to Daily Gist — your newsletters, distilled into conversation! AI is rewriting the rules of software, finance, and geopolitics all at once — and today's newsletters prove nobody has it figured out yet. Nobody has it figured out — including, apparently, the people building the thing. That's either reassuring or terrifying depending on your morning. Both, honestly. And the most honest admission of that came from two back-to-back gatherings of