Newsletter
Every Wednesday: AI news, plus the dubbing and voice tools worth a look. Past issues are all here.
September 30, 2026This week
- Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol
- Introducing dots
- UK AI Security Institute finds GPT-6 Astra's rogue attack rate jumped fivefold over its predecessor
September 23, 2026Issue 14
- Meta's AI agent, Muse, is chasing ChatGPT's App Store rise — and hit No. 1 with fewer downloads
- Introducing Claude Opus 5.5
- Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna
13 stories · 3 open-source
September 16, 2026Issue 13
- Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- Siri AI, a profoundly more capable and personal assistant, is here
- Perplexity's local agent comes to Windows, powered by NVIDIA RTX
16 stories · 4 open-source
September 9, 2026Issue 12
- GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence
- Should promotion depend on how workers use AI?
- OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades
16 stories · 3 open-source
September 2, 2026Issue 11
- Pentagon official overseeing military AI sold millions worth of stock in AI firm
- AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B
- The latest AI news we announced in August 2026
13 stories · 3 open-source
August 26, 2026Issue 10
- Taiwan charges nine people for smuggling ‘high-end’ AI servers to China
- Liquid AI open-sources Pipette, a benchmark for AI running on phones and laptops
- World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames
15 stories · 4 open-source
August 19, 2026Issue 9
- Autonomous drones and the future of war in an AI-driven world | Letter
- Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform
- NVIDIA Releases TensorRT Model Connect in Public Preview: Hugging Face Checkpoint to Native C++ Inference in Two Commands
14 stories · 3 open-source
August 12, 2026Issue 8
- Anthropic starts marking the text and images Claude makes
- Meta is back in open source with Muse Glimmer
- LTX-2.5 is out, weights and all
13 stories · 3 open-source
August 6, 2026Issue 7
- FLUX 3 Video goes live, with lip-synced dialogue in a dozen-plus languages
- MiniMax opens up H3, the video model that makes its own soundtrack
- Mistral's new safety model takes the rulebook as a prompt
16 stories · 3 open-source
July 29, 2026Issue 6
- An OpenAI model broke out of its own security exam and stole the answers
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5
- Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open model yet
14 stories · 3 open-source
July 22, 2026Issue 5
- Will AI help you do your job or replace you?
- Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US’s lead in the AI race
- Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination
13 stories · 2 open-source
July 15, 2026Issue 4
- Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims
- Anthropic makes Claude free for teachers
- Claude (@claudeai)
12 stories · 3 open-source
July 8, 2026Issue 3
- OpenAI ships gpt-realtime-2.1 for faster, cheaper voice agents
- NVIDIA releases Audex: one open model for speech, translation, and TTS
- Cohere open-sources Transcribe Arabic, built for Arabic's hardest speech
16 stories · 3 open-source
July 1, 2026Issue 2
- Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5, beating its bigger sibling
- Gemini's personalized AI image generation is now free for US users
- DeepSeek open-sources DSpark, speeding up AI by up to 85%
8 stories · 3 open-source
June 24, 2026Issue 1
- Google's AI brain drain: Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI and Nobel laureate John Jumper joins Anthropic
- China's Z.ai releases GLM-5.2, an open-weight model that rivals GPT-5.5 on coding at a fraction of the cost
- Meta halts worker tracking for AI training due to privacy fears
10 stories · 3 open-source