Issues

Issue #13 · September 5, 2026

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The day the agents all stopped

Signal: three labs shipped a "leave it running" model in three days — and on the third day, three providers went down with no confirmed cause

Issue #12 · August 29, 2026

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The open model you can't run

Signal: GLM-5.3's weights landed on schedule — all 756 GB of them — while the MIT-licensed Flash arrived two days earlier

Issue #11 · August 22, 2026

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The agents left the IDE

Signal: computer use, Skills and Files went GA — and coding agents got their own chat channels

Issue #10 · August 15, 2026

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Open weights, with a bill attached

Signal: the first Max-class open weights ship with revenue thresholds — while the runnable 27B is plain Apache 2.0

Issue #9 · August 8, 2026

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The worm that earned its green check

Signal: an npm worm with legitimately earned provenance planted hooks in .claude and .vscode config

Issue #8 · August 1, 2026

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MCP just became boring infrastructure

Signal: MCP went stateless — exposing your product to agents now costs about what a REST API costs

Issue #7 · July 25, 2026

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Frontier performance, half the price

Signal: four vendors in five days, all priced on cost per finished task

Issue #6 · July 18, 2026

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Open weights went frontier this week

Signal: Kimi K3's 2.8T vs Murati's Inkling — "open weights" stopped meaning one thing

Issue #5 · July 11, 2026

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Four coding models in one week

Signal: GPT-5.6 in three tiers, Grok 4.5 at $2 — list price stopped being comparable

Issue #4 · July 4, 2026

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The week your model became a policy risk

Signal: Fable 5 returns from a 19-day export-control blackout — and the market hedges

Issue #3 · June 27, 2026

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The week the industry stopped paying for wasted tokens

Signal: GPT-5.6 lands, but the real shift is the industry unwinding "tokenmaxxing"

Issue #2 · June 20, 2026

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Open weights just hit the cheap frontier for coding

Signal: an open model (GLM-5.2) beats GPT-5.5 on coding at ~1/6 the cost

Issue #1 · June 14, 2026

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Apple's on-device AI changes the math for small apps

Signal: Apple's on-device AI is now free for apps under 2M downloads