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Gap Scan — 2026-05-28

Daily gap hunt — what the wiki is missing and how each gap was triaged. 7 new pages created live, 1 thin anchor expanded, 1 foundational primary text authenticity-verified and queued for ingest (Quad Critical Minerals Initiative Framework — state.gov primary text captured directly).

Contents

Live run. Seven new pages were researched and committed directly to their real Wiki/ folders (status: active; all confidence: medium). One thin anchor was expanded with a ~540-word build-out. One foundational primary text — the Quad Critical Minerals Initiative Framework — was authenticity-verified against state.gov, saved to Raw Sources/, and queued for ingest. No authenticity-verification failures.

Scanned

Recent window (last 48h): 4 New Developments Log/ files (2026-05-26-1510, 2026-05-27-0505, 2026-05-27-1505, 2026-05-28-0505); ~77 wiki pages with last_updated inside the window — concentrated in the 2026-05-26 / -27 live-build cluster (the Vatican / Olah / Anthropic-DoD red-line thread, the Cloudflare-Prince labor-displacement triad already built yesterday, the NextEra-Dominion / FT M&A long-form, the FY27 NDAA / Lehane / Lawfare-EO cluster, and the Levie "AI psychosis" framing).

Rotation slice: 7 of 14 — legislation/ (all, ~83 pages).

Broken-link analysis: 562 unique broken targets (essentially flat against yesterday's 559). After alias resolution, doc-artifact filtering, and dropping items already actioned in the 2026-05-22 / -23 / -23-run2 / -24 / -25 / -26 gap-scan reports — and items with an existing Raw Sources/ file or queued INGEST- task — ~22 genuine new gaps remained.

The dominant cluster today: the "AI psychosis" / agentic-economy / capex-curve triple, where the same 48-hour cycle named four cross-cutting concept anchors with no pages behind them (Agentic Economy at 5 inbound, AI Infrastructure Capex at 4 inbound, both surfaced by yesterday's Middle-Manager Displacement + utility-merger build; the standalone Strategic Compute Reserve from OpenAI's May 27 letter; and the Aaron Levie / Box pair from the "AI psychosis" frame). The rotation slice surfaced Quad Critical Minerals Initiative Framework as the highest-priority gap by score (live thread + dangling foundational reference + core area), and confirmed the John Moolenaar deferral was overdue. The thin-anchor scan flagged Henry Farrell (17 inbound × 337 words, confidence: medium, sources_count: 1) as today's expansion target, twice-deferred (2026-05-25 → 2026-05-26).

Gaps actioned (8 of ~22 found)

New pages created (live)

  • AI Infrastructure Capex — gap type 2: 4 inbound from yesterday's new utility-merger pages (NextEra Energy, Dominion Energy) plus How the AI revolution has turbocharged M&A. Built as the cross-cutting concept anchoring the wiki's capex-curve story — the 2026 hyperscaler-and-frontier-lab capex snapshot ($700B–$1T aggregate, Apollo's $3T-through-2028 projection), the structural drivers (training/inference reweighting, agentic workloads, electricity bottleneck), the M&A wave's mineralogy, and the contested "is the spend justified?" thread that Gary Marcus opened May 26. 4 sources; confidence: medium.
  • Strategic Compute Reserve — gap type 2 + live thread: OpenAI's May 27 letter to Congressional leaders and Substack post calling for a federally-managed reserve of chips, data-center capacity, energy, and cleared operators for national-security AI use, modeled on the SPR. Built with the SPR-analogy critique (chips depreciate, supply chain dependency, multi-layer stockpiling) and the political-fault-lines map (Sacks / Moolenaar / Bessent / Anthropic). 2 sources (the OpenAI letter + the NYT $9B spy-chip request that is in effect the single-agency down payment).
  • Aaron Levie — gap type 3 + live thread: Box co-founder/CEO; coined "AI psychosis" on May 27 to describe executive miscalibration of agent capability. Built with the framing's three notable features (it's from an AI bull, it follows a wave of productivity-claim-driven layoffs, it pairs with concurrent enterprise pushback from Uber / Microsoft / Starbucks). 2 sources; confidence: medium. The page anchors the "AI Psychosis (planned)" forward-reference that lint will need to track.
  • Box — gap type 3 + lint-backlog (the 2026-05-27 lint report flagged this for creation): for-profit NYSE-listed enterprise cloud content-management company. Built with the 2026 snapshot (~$1.18B FY26 revenue, 100,000+ customers, 68% of Fortune 500), the Box AI / Box Hubs / Box Apps product framework, the "governance is the moat" positioning, and the May 27 Levie "AI psychosis" trigger that surfaced this page. 2 sources; confidence: medium. Aaron Levie + Dylan Smith founding (2005) and the January 2015 IPO confirmed against the SEC filings.
  • Quad Critical Minerals Initiative Framework — gap type 3 + live thread + dangling foundational ref: May 26, 2026 Quad foreign ministers' joint statement in New Delhi; up to $20B in mobilized public/private support across three pillars (investment, regulatory alignment, recycling). Page built from the verified state.gov primary text directly — and the dev-log's framing of "explicitly framed around AI supply chains" was tested against the primary text and qualified on the page (AI is implicit in "advanced technologies" but not named; the framework is critical-minerals-coded, with AI as the most salient downstream application). 2 sources (state.gov primary text + Inside AI Policy secondary); confidence: medium.

Pages expanded (live)

  • Henry Farrell — thin anchor: in-degree 17, 337 words, confidence: medium, sources_count: 1. Expanded to ~880 words. Added: SAIS chair detail (SNF Agora Professor of International Affairs, joined Johns Hopkins 2021), career arc (Ph.D. Georgetown 2000 → GWU → Hopkins), full list of major works cited in the wiki (the Farrell-Gopnik-Evans-Shalizi 2025 Science commentary; Farrell-Fourcade 2023 Daedalus "high-tech modernism"; Farrell 2025 Democracy as a Social Technology; Farrell-Han 2025 Simon-Dewey synthesis; the Programmable Mutter Substack as the public-facing channel), an intellectual-lineage section (Simon → Scott → Ostrom → Schumpeter → Dewey) as a reusable retrieval key, and the four positions that distinguish Farrell across his published record (AI is not new in kind but new in scale; political-economy reading precedes the alignment reading; democracy-AI is about information infrastructure not deepfakes; industrial-revolution analogies are useful but lossy). 1 supporting cite (programmablemutter.com); held at confidence: medium, sources_count raised 1 → 2. Closes the 2026-05-25 → -26 deferral.
  • None this run. The 2026-05-22 / -23 / -24 / -25 / -26 cumulative passes have absorbed the standing alias backlog; today's broken-link scan surfaced no new ambiguous-alias clusters worth fixing in bulk.

Queued — foundational sources

  • Quad Critical Minerals Initiative Framework (state.gov, 2026-05-26) — joint statement of the US, Japan, Australia, and India released at the Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting in New Delhi; three pillars (investment with a $20B mobilization target; regulatory alignment including CFIUS-equivalent investment-screening language; recycling and recovery). Verified: canonical host state.gov (Office of the Spokesperson Media Note, indexed at the official .gov URL state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/05/quad-critical-minerals-initiative-framework-among-the-united-states-japan-australia-and-india), corroborated by Australia's foreignminister.gov.au parallel joint statement and India's MEA outcomes statement; full three-pillar text captured. Saved: Raw Sources/Quad Critical Minerals Initiative Framework (State Department, 26 May 2026).md. Queued: Wiki/queue/INGEST-quad-critical-minerals-framework-2026.md. Verification record: Quad Critical Minerals Initiative Framework (May 26, 2026). Will become the wiki's primary anchor for the rare-earth / supply-chain leg of the US-China AI Competition: Different Races, Different Metrics story; the live page Quad Critical Minerals Initiative Framework already cites the primary URL inline, with a provenance note that citations should upgrade to [[sources/quad-critical-minerals-framework-2026]] once ingest runs.

Authenticity-verification failures

None. The Quad framework verified cleanly: state.gov canonical host, two cross-corroborating parallel statements from Australia and India, distinctive-passage check passed (Section I $20B mobilization target appears verbatim across all sources), no signs of fabrication.

Notes for the next lint / ingest pass

  • Dev-log framing test. Inside AI Policy's framing of the Quad framework as "explicitly framed around AI supply chains" was tested against the primary text and qualified — AI is not named; the framework is critical-minerals-coded with "advanced technologies" as the explicit framing. The wiki should not cite the framework as an "AI policy" instrument in narrow terms; the Quad Critical Minerals Initiative Framework page now flags this distinction. Pattern to watch in future dev-log → wiki folds: secondary coverage often AI-codes critical-minerals / chip / energy stories that the primary texts treat more broadly.
  • concepts/ai-psychosis is still a stub forward-reference. Two new pages (Aaron Levie, Box) now anchor on it. Promote to a concepts/ page when a second AI-bull voice echoes the framing (rule of two), expected within 30–60 days given the live-thread momentum.
  • Maxim Topaz is still the deferred carrier from 2026-05-26 once the Lancet ingest runs; not yet promotable.
  • The CLAUDE.md entity_type schema clarification from 2026-05-26 (utilities Dominion / NextEra placed under entities/ despite being for-profit non-AI-developer companies) remains open. The finance-firm cluster from How the AI revolution has turbocharged M&A (Kkr, Blackstone, etc.) still depends on this resolution before pulls become safe.
  • Box / Levie cross-check. The Box page's Box AI / Box Hubs / Box Apps product descriptions were synthesized from public marketing — a future foundational ingest of Box's S-1 / 10-K / Box AI product disclosures would let the page upgrade to confidence: high.
  • Aaron Levie investments / advisory roles. Levie's angel-investment portfolio is non-public; the page deliberately stays vague on specifics. A targeted pull of his public investment disclosures would let this section harden.

Deferred backlog (over the daily cap — re-surfaces next run)

One-line summary

Eight substantive gaps actioned: seven new pages live (the agentic-economy / capex / strategic-compute-reserve concept triple — Agentic Economy, AI Infrastructure Capex, Strategic Compute Reserve — anchoring the cross-cutting concepts that yesterday's labor-displacement build and today's OpenAI strategic-compute letter both surfaced; the Box / Levie pair — Aaron Levie + Box — capturing the May 27 "AI psychosis" framing and closing the 2026-05-27 lint flag; John Moolenaar closing a 3-day-old deferral; and Quad Critical Minerals Initiative Framework built from the verified state.gov primary text), Henry Farrell expanded from 337 to ~880 words with full intellectual-lineage section (closing the 2026-05-25 → -26 deferral), and the Quad framework primary text authenticity-verified against state.gov and queued for foundational ingest. No authenticity-verification failures.

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