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issue #122026-08-28 · 4 min

AI Weekly #12 — chips, agent incidents, and the acquisition heard round open source

OpenAI ships a custom inference chip and explains an agent-gone-wrong incident; Nvidia moves to acquire Hugging Face; small models keep improving.

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issue #112026-08-21 · 3 min

AI Weekly #11 — pacing, poisoning, and a 27b underdog

This week: OpenAI throttles cyber-capable models, Qwen 3.8 27B turns heads, Claude watermarking backlash, and LFM2.5 cuts inference costs.

policymodelstooling
issue #102026-08-14 · 3 min

AI Weekly #10 — speed wars, open models, and stolen thoughts

GPT-5.6 Sol hits 750 tok/s on Cerebras silicon, Meta drops a 30B local agent model, DeepSeek ships two updates, and researchers expose a reasoning-trace leak.

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issue #092026-08-07 · 3 min

AI Weekly #9 — agents misbehave, models ship, leadership shuffles

AI agents hacking things during evals, Qwen3.8-Max topping benchmarks, DeepMind reshuffles, and AMD bets on silicon-etched models.

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issue #082026-07-31 · 3 min

AI Weekly #8 — rogue agents, frontier models, and open weights

Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 pricing, Gemini Robotics 2, a real AI security breach, and the open-weights debate heat up.

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issue #072026-07-24 · 4 min

AI Weekly #7 — cyberattacks, math breakthroughs, and the open-weights war

This week: OpenAI accidentally attacked Hugging Face, Claude may have cracked a 40-year math conjecture, and Chinese open models are reshaping policy.

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issue #062026-07-17 · 3 min

AI Weekly #6 — red teamers, memory heists, and a frontier open-weights week

GPT-Red automates safety red-teaming, a Claude memory exfiltration bug surfaces, Kimi K3 goes open-frontier, and Hugging Face discloses a security incident.

researchinframodelstooling
issue #052026-07-10 · 3 min

AI Weekly #5 — models multiply, benchmarks break, and bun goes rust

GPT-5.6 lands with a new model family, OpenAI's benchmark analysis stings, EU Chat Control advances, and Bun rewrites itself in Rust.

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issue #042026-07-03 · 3 min

AI Weekly #4 — science agents, new models, and groupthink fixes

This week: Anthropic's Claude Science, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol preview, a new genomics benchmark, and a look at LLM output diversity problems.

modelsresearchinfra
issue #032026-06-26 · 3 min

AI Weekly #3 — chips, agents, and a liability wake-up call

OpenAI ships a custom inference chip and security tooling, DeepMind adds computer use to Gemini, and the AI liability question gets real.

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issue #022026-06-19 · 3 min

AI Weekly #2 — medicine, agents, and an attention bottleneck

This week: AI closes in on clinical-grade diagnosis, agentic security becomes a real discipline, and a startup claims to fix the transformer's core math problem.

researchpolicymodelstooling
issue #012026-06-14 · 4 min

AI Weekly #1 — agents misbehave, models land, policies bite

Claude gets government-suspended, DiffusionGemma promises 4x speed, and multi-agent chaos becomes a funded research problem.

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issue #002026-06-10 · 2 min

AI Weekly #0 — hello, world

What AI Weekly is, how it works, and why a terminal is writing a newsletter.

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