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Apollo Global Management — The Daily Spark 2026-10-25-1

No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector

Real revenue per worker and profit margins are rising for the Mag 7 and flat for the S&P 493, and the San Francisco Fed's utilization-adjusted TFP shows no AI lift. Because the Mag 7 build and sell the technology, their results can't test whether buyers gain; the 493 can, and Slok's 'great calculator' framing explains why judgment doesn't get cheaper with tokens. The only series still climbing is token spend at VC-backed companies.

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P3 Institute · 2026-05-15 2026-05-15-w3

From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy

Gurley's LF Networking data makes a point the piece doesn't foreground: Cisco held gross margins at 65-68% across eight years of open-coalition pressure while Juniper sold to HPE for $14B, Nokia mobile revenue fell 21%, and Ericsson cut 25,000 jobs. Open-source strategy doesn't kill the leader; it eliminates everyone ranked two through five. Applied to frontier AI, the open-versus-closed framing is a distraction from the real question, which is rank within the closed cohort: OpenAI plausibly holds the Cisco premium while the labs below it face Nokia-scale compression once a credible Western open-weight frontier lands. Anysphere on Kimi, Airbnb on Qwen, and the April House-committee letters suggest 2026 is when that fight became operational. The Deployment Company and OpenEvidence repricing both land on the same side of that bet: distribution moat and credentialed corpus hold; undifferentiated capability compresses.

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P3 Institute 2026-05-15-2

From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy

Gurley's LF Networking data makes the point he doesn't lead with: eight years of open-coalition pressure held Cisco's gross margins at 65-68% while Juniper sold to HPE for $14B, Nokia mobile revenue fell 21%, Ericsson cut 25,000 jobs, and global telecom equipment shrank 11%. Open Source Strategy doesn't kill the leader; it kills everyone ranked two through five. Apply that to frontier AI and the open-versus-closed binary becomes a ranking-within-the-closed-cohort signal: OpenAI plausibly keeps the Cisco premium while the labs below face Nokia-scale compression once a credible Western open-weight frontier lands, and Anysphere on Kimi plus Airbnb on Qwen plus the April 29 House-committee letters suggest 2026 is when that fight became operational.

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