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The Next AI Bottleneck Is Permission to Act, and the Market Graded It This Week

From Silicon Scarcity to Software Scarcity

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Thomas Look
Sep 03, 2026
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Rubin monetized the scarcity of compute. The software constraint trade has to monetize the scarcity of something less tangible and harder to price: an enterprise’s permission for a machine to act. This page sets out the thesis in short form today, the full report follows, and the week’s earnings reactions serve as the first live test.

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