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- 7/19/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #29/2026: New York's Building Freeze on AI Data Centers
New York becomes the first US state to halt new hyperscale data centers, China launches its own AI alliance with WAICO, and Anthropic's own study uncovers language-based bias in Claude.
- 7/12/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #28/2026: xAI Fires Back with Grok 4.5 — Cheaper Than Opus, Faster Than GPT-5.6
xAI launches Grok 4.5 as its first enterprise model after going public, while Beijing weighs export controls on Chinese AI models and the industry faces a $3 trillion revenue gap.
- 7/5/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #27/2026: Claude Sonnet 5 Becomes the New Standard - and Grok 4.5 Remains a Claim
Claude Sonnet 5 replaces Claude 4.6 as the new default model for Free and Pro, while Musk promises Opus-level performance for Grok 4.5 - without showing a single benchmark.
- 6/28/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #26/2026: When the State Stops the AI Launch
The US intervenes preventively in the GPT-5.6 launch for the first time, Anthropic's Mythos-5 export ban lifts after 14 days, and Asian startups fill the vacuum.
- 6/14/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #24/2026: AI Emergency Shutdown – US Government Halts Anthropic's Fable 5
US Department of Commerce blocks Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 just three days after launch – a historic precedent for government AI export controls with global implications.
- 6/7/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #23/2026: When the State Becomes an AI Shareholder
Trump considers a government stake in OpenAI, Anthropic files its S-1, companies struggle with exploding token costs — and ChatGPT reportedly reaches 1 billion users according to Sensor Tower.
- 5/31/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #22/2026: Anthropic Nearly Worth a Trillion
Anthropic closes a $65B round approaching a trillion-dollar valuation – plus GitHub Copilot shock, Claude Opus 4.8, and a papal AI encyclical.
- 5/24/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #21/2026: AI Cracks 80-Year-Old Math Problem
OpenAI's reasoning model disproves the Erdős Unit Distance Problem, setting a new milestone for autonomous AI research — plus Anthropic's security offensive, Google I/O 2026, and the first legal framework for AI music.
- 5/17/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #20/2026: Cerebras Explodes on the Stock Market – and AI Drains Bank Accounts
Cerebras celebrates the biggest tech IPO of 2026 with +68% on its first trading day, OpenAI moves into financial data, arXiv draws a hard line against AI ghostwriters – and the Apple-OpenAI marriage heads to court
- 5/10/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #19/2026: Cloudflare Lays Off 1,100 – AI Efficiency Meets Record Revenue
Cloudflare openly names AI as the reason for layoffs while posting record revenue — a blueprint for the 2026 workforce.
- 5/3/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #18/2026: Microsoft and OpenAI End Exclusivity – and Defuse the AGI Bomb
OpenAI breaks free from Microsoft's exclusive grip, the Pentagon arms up with AI, Anthropic is headed toward a $900B valuation – and Stripe makes AI agents capable of payment.
- 4/26/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #17/2026: Claude Mythos Finds 271 Firefox Vulnerabilities – And Stays Under Lock
Claude Mythos discovers 271 Firefox zero-days and won't be released publicly, Google pumps $40B into Anthropic, and Cohere merges with Aleph Alpha to become Europe's sovereign AI hope.
- 4/19/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #16/2026: Claude Opus 4.7 Strikes Back – But a Laptop Model Is Catching Up
Anthropic's new flagship delivers 3x more production coding power, Cursor eyes a $50B valuation, and a free open-source model beats Opus 4.7 on a MacBook.
- 4/12/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #15/2026: Anthropic's Most Dangerous Model – and Why No One Gets Access
Claude Mythos Preview autonomously discovers Zero-Day vulnerabilities in 181 Firefox exploits, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI revenue with $30B ARR, and Florida launches the first state investigation against an LLM company.
- 4/5/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #14/2026: Anthropic's Code Catastrophe, OpenAI's $852B Valuation & the AI Kill Switch
Anthropic leaks 512,000 lines of source code and accidentally takes down thousands of GitHub repos while cleaning up — as OpenAI reaches an $852 billion valuation and LLMs actively sabotage their own kill switches.
- 3/29/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #13/2026: OpenAI Buries Sora — AI Industry Pivots to Profitability
OpenAI shuts down Sora and dissolves the Disney deal, Anthropic wins against the Pentagon, and Apple opens Siri to Claude & Gemini.
- 3/15/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #12/2026: AI as Grounds for Layoffs — Meta Eyes 14,000 Positions, the Industry's New Playbook
Meta considers up to 20% workforce reduction to fund aggressive AI investments; Anthropic brings 1-million-token context at no extra cost; ChatGPT becomes an agent hub for DoorDash, Spotify, and Uber.
- 3/9/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #11/2026: When Resistance Pays Off — Anthropic's Lawsuit, 1M Signups Daily and 22 Firefox Bugs in 2 Weeks
The US Department of Defense labels Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' — users respond with 1 million new signups daily; Claude finds 22 critical Firefox security vulnerabilities in two weeks; and OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with 1M context and computer use.
- 3/1/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #09/2026: Trump's Ban — When Government Decides Which AI Is Allowed
For the first time in AI history, a leading company is being barred from the federal market by government decree — Anthropic fights Trump's blacklist while OpenAI takes over the Pentagon contract and Block lays off 40% of its workforce citing AI.
- 2/15/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #7/2026: $380B Valuation While Software Stocks Plunge
Anthropic raises $30B at $380B valuation, OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of model distillation, Healthcare AI becomes top risk, and Chinese labs prepare coordinated model launches
- 2/8/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 6/2026
Claude Opus 4.6 discovers 500 zero-days, OpenAI launches Frontier for enterprise agents, Big Tech invests $650B in AI infrastructure
- 2/1/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 05/2026
Anthropic announced Claude's Mars mission, Meta invests $135 billion in AI, OpenAI seeks $60 billion in fresh capital
- 1/25/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 04/2026
IMF warns of AI tsunami hitting labor market, DeepMind criticizes OpenAI's ad plans, Claude Code conquers enterprise
- 1/18/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 03/2026
OpenAI introduces advertising in ChatGPT, Anthropic launches desktop agent Cowork, Musk demands $134 billion from OpenAI
- 1/11/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 02/2026
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, Nvidia unveils Rubin Platform at CES, Google brings Gemini to Gmail, Anthropic wins Allianz as enterprise customer
- 1/5/2026 craftsmanship AI Craftsmanship - January 2026
Context Engineering replaces Prompt Engineering, Devin's Performance Review shows 67% PR merge rate, Microsoft planning coding startup acquisition
- 1/4/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 01/2026
DeepSeek's efficiency breakthrough with security concerns, CES 2026 AI hardware revolution, tech IPO year with trillion-dollar valuations
- 12/28/2025 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 52/2025
Memory chips running short, Microsoft draws superintelligence red lines, and Nvidia buys Groq for $20 billion
- 12/28/2025 craftsmanship AI Craftsmanship - December 2025
Claude Code Thinking Modes, Skills as Open Standard, Agentic Coding Best Practices, and MCP Developments
- 12/21/2025 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 51/2025
The great AI hype correction, 55,000 AI-driven layoffs, and NY signs RAISE Act
- 12/14/2025 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 50/2025
MCP becomes Linux Foundation Standard, GPT-5.2 responds to Code Red, and Trump signs AI Executive Order
- 12/7/2025 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 49/2025
Anthropic acquires Bun and reaches $1B ARR, AWS re:Invent brings Frontier Agents, and OpenAI declares Code Red