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Autonomy Economics Evidence Audit for October 2026

What the register recorded between 1 October 2026 and 31 October 2026.

Derived from the register and published without editorial approval on 1 November 2026.

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observations added
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strengthened
1
weakened

What weakened

Listed first, deliberately. These figures are derived from the register and not written, so this section cannot be softened before it publishes, which is the whole reason the audit is generated instead of drafted.

  • quarterly review found HBI genuinely contradicted

Counter-signals

No new contradictory signals were recorded in this period.

Boundary conditions observed

No new boundary observations were recorded in this period.

Too early to judge

No new observations were classified as too early in this period.

What strengthened

  • Open decision-model alternatives emerge within weeks of Jev launch (strength 4)

Editorial assessment

No editorial commentary was written for this period. The figures above published regardless; commentary is additive and its absence is shown openly.

Observations added

TypeSafe AI·

Open decision-model alternatives emerge within weeks of Jev launch

Within 16 days of TypeSafe AI launching Jev as a specialised System One decision model, Cloudflare and Strands released competing decision models with open weights or open-source code, while OpenAI announced a Decisions API and Perplexity made an Apache-2.0 decision model available. The cluster broadens access to a newly differentiated decision capability across hosted APIs, cloud platforms and local or self-hosted implementations.

CSD

Prediction testedWhether a newly scarce technical capability can be replicated, substituted and accessed through competing providers, cloud platforms and open weights, weakening scarcity around access to the capability itself.

AssessmentSupportive Strong

Why it mattersThe sequence closely matches the mechanism described by CSD, in which value is exposed when a capability that was difficult to access, replicate or substitute becomes available through multiple credible routes. The speed of diffusion is particularly informative because the relevant capability category moved from a specialist launch to competing hosted and open implementations within weeks.

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