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Latest issue
Issue #006 · July 2026
What mattered last week in AI
Anthropic launches Opus 5 at Opus 4.8 pricing, Nvidia bets $5B on Sutskever's new venture, Hermes Agent passes 214k GitHub stars, a dev runs a model on a $10 chip, and OpenAI's own models break out of their sandbox mid-eval.
Past issues
Issue #005 · July 2026
What mattered last week in AI
Qwen 3.8 Max claims #2 on the leaderboards, Moonshot unveils its largest open model yet, David Sacks warns on the AI race, Apple Intelligence lands in China, and Germany's Soofi S tops the open-source rankings.
Issue #004 · July 2026
What mattered last week in AI
Ghostcommit hides prompt-injection in images, developers misjudge their own AI-assisted speed by 39%, slopsquatting hijacks AI-suggested packages, Microsoft backs Go for agents, GPT-5.6 lands, and Sakana's Fugu learns to command a swarm of models.
Issue #003 · July 2026
What mattered last week in AI
Anthropic drops Sonnet 5, Seltz raises $12.5M for agent-native search, OpenAI ships GPT-5.4-Cyber and buys Ona, Meta teases a new coding model, Assort Health and Venice AI raise big rounds, Trump's AI policy boosts open source, Qualcomm buys Modular for $3.9B — plus we shipped HomeSky.
Issue #002 · June 2026
What mattered last week in AI
OpenAI tapes out its first custom chip, Anthropic accuses Alibaba of distilling Claude, an $81,267 vibe-coding bill, Figma ships native animation, and Qwen builds a world model for agents.
Issue #001 · June 2026
5 must-reads in AI this week
Anthropic passes OpenAI at $965B, the enterprise agent land-grab, four big models in one month, the compute war, and MCP becoming the standard.