Weekly#700

  • Citadel Buys Situational Awareness’s Stock Portfolio After Big Losses in AI (WSJ)
  • OpenAI said Thursday it is cutting prices for two GPT-5.6 models after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them
  • AWS net sales increased 37%—its fastest growth in 18 quarters—to a $169 billion annualized revenue run rate
  • Introducing Inkling-Small
  • DeepSeek Is Developing Massive AI Data Center in Inner Mongolia
  • Meta Reports Almost $700 Billion in Future Spending Commitments
  • Gemini Robotics 2
  • Disney Overhauls Streaming Services to Jumpstart Subscriber Growth
  • Qantas plane flies for more than 24 hours in record-breaking flight
  • A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands
  • Amazon’s trying to launch a global satellite cellphone network in 2028
  • “Google announced on Thursday that it has fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in the last two versions of Chrome, both released in June. That is more than the number of bugs patched in the previous 23 versions released over the last two years, which totaled 1,036 fixes.”
  • LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop
  • Spotify launches ‘User Notes’ to let users add memories to songs
  • Tesla made its 10 millionth EV
  • AI in SRE: A Practical Autonomy Model for Self-Healing Infrastructure
  • AI-Assisted Software Development: Team Profiles and Capabilities for Putting Research into Action

Weekly#699

  • The Galaxy Card Is Samsung’s Answer to the Apple Card
  • Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra launches as Samsung’s ‘most advanced’ foldable
  • OpenAI says Hugging Face breach caused by its models…”…The AI agent framework executed tens of thousands of automated actions over a weekend. Hugging Face said it later reconstructed more than 17,000 recorded events…The intrusion began with a malicious dataset that exploited two code-execution paths in Hugging Face’s data-processing pipeline…The agent then escalated privileges and moved laterally through internal infrastructure, Hugging Face said.”
  • Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off (WSJ)
  • Amazon cuts jobs in its artificial general intelligence group
  • AT&T tops targets for new wireless subscribers as bundle offers spur demand
  • Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France’s Scaleway
  • Jack Dorsey takes on Slack and GitHub with new AI workplace platform Buzz
  • Best alternatives to Chrome and Safari
  • Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era
  • State of AI Engineering
  • Search Is Becoming the Control Plane for AI Agents…”…The future of AI agents is searchable tool discovery, not hardcoded APIs. MCP and semantic search are turning tools into capabilities agents can find and use at runtime…”
  • Agent Sprawl Is Your Next Production Incident…“…Agent Sprawl — the condition where AI agent infrastructure complexity (frameworks, models, tool layers, orchestration patterns) grows faster than your ability to measure and govern its reliability…”
  • Software Factories, Light and Dark

Weekly#698

  • The dangers of token usage in billing
  • OpenAI’s First Device Will Be a Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as an AI Companion
  • Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
  • Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup backed by Alibaba, on Thursday released Kimi K3. Kimi K3 contains 2.8 trillion total parameters with a 1-million-token context window.”…In blind testing by AI evaluator Arena, developers preferred Kimi over every leading U.S. model for front-end coding — including Anthropic’s Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol…”
  • Uber in $15 billion deal for Delivery Hero to create global takeout giant
  • Alphabet Inc.’s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro…”…because the company has been taking time to try to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding, according to people familiar with the matter…”
  • Netflix says roughly 300 titles on its platform used generative AI, most of which occurred in post-production
  • Truth Social to sell Wall Street firms the ‘fastest’ access to Trump’s posts
  • Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
  • Two futures for jobs in an AI era
  • AI Agents with Cloud Credentials Are Outrunning Billing Guardrails Built for Human-Speed Mistakes

Weekly#697

  • AI Training Startup Mercor Discusses $20 Billion Valuation
  • OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work tool
  • OpenAI to Retire ChatGPT Atlas Browser Less Than a Year After Launch
  • OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations
  • SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history
  • Netflix could be planning ‘always-on’ live TV channels
  • China Successfully Launches Reusable Rocket (WSJ)
  • Microsoft to retire the OWA Light client in Exchange Server
  • Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs
  • The FTC Settlement With John Deere Is a Huge Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement
  • Apple says it will spend $30 billion to design US-made Broadcom chips
  • China’s DeepSeek developing its own AI chip
  • Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World In places with unreliable networks and no data-center infrastructure, smaller is better
  • Anthropic’s Reflection: AI gets its screen-time moment
  • Career advice in the age of AI…”…The most important skills will be the ones related to problem selection and resource allocation…evaluate whether the company is working on the most ambitious form of their problem, and then whether they actually have a shot at solving it. To choose a role, think about whether the role will allow you to work directly on the frontier of whatever problem the company is solving.”
  • 10 Claude Code Steering Mechanisms That Stop Agents From Ignoring Instructions

Weekly#696

  • Tesla Caps Employee AI Spend at $200 per Week After Adoption Push
  • Smooth AI criminal drives ‘first’ end-to-end agentic ransomware attack
  • Summer Reading List
  • Alexandr Wang says Meta’s coming AI has caught up with OpenAI’s flagship model
  • Meta’s Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expected…”…”trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected…”
  • Scientists Say They’ve Made Cells That Feed, Grow and Reproduce, Bringing Them One Step Closer to Building Life From Scratch
  • Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung
  • Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket
  • Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity
  • Anthropic’s Fable 5 is back online
  • PlayStation will stop releasing games on discs in 2028
  • AI is ‘not smart’ so what’s next in artificial intelligence?
  • South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

Weekly#695

  • OpenAI releases powerful new GPT-5.6 model under restrictions. Sol, Terra and Luna. Sol is the most powerful. Terra offers a balance of efficiency and power and Luna is designed for speed and affordability.
  • OpenAI says 97.9 percent of its employees are now using agents…Within OpenAI, 97.9 percent of employees are now using Codex, up from around 40 percent in August 2025
  • SoftBank Shares Tumble After Report of OpenAI’s IPO Delay
  • Revolut scraps ‘remote-first’ working for graduate hires (FT)
  • “…A high-severity flaw in Amazon’s AI coding assistant for Visual Studio Code meant that opening the wrong Git repository could allow an attacker to execute code on a developer’s machine and potentially hand them the keys to the dev’s cloud environment…”
  • OpenAI and Anthropic face new AI reality as users shift from ‘tokenmaxxing’ to efficiency
  • Spain will require carriers to keep mobile networks live during power outages
  • Ford’s AI Hiccups Lead Carmaker to Rehire ‘Gray Beard’ Engineers
  • Bob Iger’s long goodbye (FT)
  • Digital euro: MEPs want to ensure sovereignty, privacy and financial stability
  • SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US
  • Qualcomm plans new chip architecture for phones
  • US releases powerful Anthropic model Mythos to some US companies
  • The AI price shock is here: Apple and Microsoft hike prices
  • “…Chinese models don’t have to beat OpenAI or Anthropic to reshape the global AI order. They just have to be useful, available and widely adopted…”
  • Harnessing AI for the Real Economy
  • NVIDIA Announces Halos for Robotics, the Industry’s First Full-Stack Safety System for Physical AI
  • Harness engineering for coding agent users