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Monday Edition · 20 July 2026
GPU is the new oil – enough for everyone?
The world's largest open-source model suspends subscriptions because GPU capacity ran out. The European Union is forcing Apple and Google to open their AI assistants to competition. And McKinsey reveals the number that will change how we think about agents: 60% of costs aren't inference — they're fixing answers.
Read issue →Friday Edition · 17 July 2026
Open-source tsunami: 2.8T and 975B parameters
In 48 hours, two giant open-weight models reshaped the AI landscape: China's Kimi K3 (2.8T parameters, Fable 5 level) and America's Inkling from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines (975B). Plus the EU introduces mandatory content labeling in 17 days, and OpenAI automates red teaming. This week is a turning point.
Read issue →Wednesday Edition · 15 July 2026
The Great Firewall for AI and Other Boundaries
Wednesday brings a real breakthrough: China introduces the world's strictest law against AI impersonating humans, researchers find a way to poison agent memory with a single email, and someone runs a 744B model on a laptop without a GPU. Plus the EU AI Act hits 18 days before the deadline — things are heating up.
Read issue →Monday Edition · 13 July 2026
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade Secrets
Apple has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging systematic theft of trade secrets — from engineers to the Chief Hardware Officer. This is the first such bitter conflict between a consumer hardware giant and an AI leader, and it could change the rules of the game in the AI device market.
Read issue →Friday Edition · 10 July 2026
Three AI Fronts – 24 Days to the Deadline
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 in three variants, SpaceXAI (xAI + SpaceX) strikes with Grok 4.5 after acquiring Cursor for $60B, and Meta breaks a long-standing rule by introducing a paid model for the first time. Meanwhile, the EU counts down to mandatory AI content labeling, and Uber tests a novel agent deployment model in the enterprise. It's been an intense week.
Read issue →Wednesday Edition · 8 July 2026
466 million lines and AI in space
Alberta (Canada) proved that agentic AI can scan 466 million lines of government code in 20 hours. At the same time, DeepSeek began designing its own chip, and startup Starcloud is sending data centers into orbit. This isn't the future – it's happening now.
Read issue →Monday Edition · 6 July 2026
Cloudflare ends free data for AI
Cloudflare closes the door on free data scraping, Cisco deploys an AI agent to every employee, the UN convenes the world for a conversation about AI power, and Palantir publishes a manifesto against tokenmaxxing. Welcome to the week when AI stops being a toy and becomes infrastructure.
Read issue →Friday Edition · 3 July 2026
Autonomous Ransomware Agent – First in History
It was a hot week in AI — Claude Fable 5 returns to market after 18 days of blockade, OpenAI wants to give the US government 5% shares, NVIDIA releases a diffusion LLM 2.42× faster than standard decoding, and Senator Mark Warner introduces the first US bill targeting AI agent safety.
Read issue →Wednesday Edition · 1 July 2026
Two models, one agentic AI revolution
Two models in the spotlight: Anthropic releases Sonnet 5, purpose-built for AI agents, while DeepReinforce unveils Ornith-1.0 — an open-source competitor that runs locally without an API. Plus, identity verification at Anthropic and the first global UN report on the state of AI.
Read issue →Monday Edition · 29 June 2026
GPT-5.6 Now Behind the Government Gate
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 in three variants, DeepSeek open-sourced a framework for speculative decoding, and Mythos 5 returned to US critical infrastructure after 15 days of blackout. In this edition: what the era of government-gated models means.
Read issue →Friday Edition · 26 June 2026
Government says: stop, OpenAI makes a chip, SpaceX pays 60 bn
History accelerates. In two days, the US controls access to an AI model at the customer level for the first time, OpenAI shows its own silicon, and SpaceX buys a coding tool for 60 billion dollars. These are not rumors — they are precedents.
Read issue →Wednesday Edition · 24 June 2026
Blacklists, Billions and Glasses for $299
In the last 48 hours, the AI world has experienced a real earthquake – from geopolitical escalation to groundbreaking deals and products. I've tracked five key events for you that define the direction this technology is heading.
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