Weekly#712

  • Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro
  • OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up
  • Biosecurity in the AI Era
  • Anthropic strikes deal to launch European consultancy (FT)
  • Investigating alignment failures in AISI’s incident
  • Microduck robots
  • External evaluators find flaws in OpenAI’s AI monitoring system in pilot review
  • Evaluating AI agents: moving past the vibe check
  • Agentic Verification
  • “…Anthropic generated around $16.3 billion in revenue in the six months ended June 30, up from $1.1 billion in the year-earlier period, according to the draft prospectus. During that period, Anthropic spent nearly $9 billion on computing capacity and infrastructure, up from $2.3 billion spent on infrastructure during the same six months in 2025…” (WSJ)
  • Two AI Chipmakers Make Up 34% of America’s Earnings Boom (WSJ)
  • Avoiding AI Debt as a Team
  • The Three Tiers of Agentic Incident Response: When to Trust AI Autonomy
  • Getty Images plans bankruptcy filing, to go private
  • NASA adopting Apollo’s urgency to build a moon base and land astronauts within two years
  • SpaceX in Talks to Access 80,000 Cell Sites for Wireless Network
  • Scoop: Unvetted AI agents are accessing U.S. bank accounts
  • Introducing Claude Duet

Weekly#711

  • Redesigning source control at Anthropic…”…As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months…”
  • Introducing Muse Spark Open, The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date
  • Apple and Meta team up to make Muse AI model run on Mac computers
  • John Ternus Is Engineering a New Era for Apple
  • Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security
  • Sony Debuts $5,900 Gold-Plated Walkman Player for Audiophiles
  • Amazon introduces 2 new AI products from Bee: Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse
  • Mini organs launching to space may help future astronauts and humans on Earth stay healthy
  • Netflix cuts about 6% of jobs in biggest layoff since 2022
  • iPhone Duo sells out immediately, now backordered until next year
  • How employment is changing at Anthropic
  • SoftBank in talks to buy US security group Allied Universal (FT)
  • AI Runs Into Its Next Big Obstacle (WSJ)
  • The Emerging Digital Battleground
  • How the Claude Code team does code review
  • AI Engineering Skills Map
  • Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI

Weekly#710

  • Worldwide PC shipments fell 20.1% year over year in Q3 2026 to 62.7 million units
  • Andreessen Horowitz backs TypeSafe AI at $7.5 Billion Value
  • Ultra raises $62 million for fast-growing ‘robots as a service’ business
  • SoftBank seeks $100bn from Gulf investors to expand AI bet (FT)
  • Musk’s Bigger Test After Airwaves Is Building Costly Network…”…Once the company receives approval from the Federal Communications Commission, it will combine its satellite-to-cell services with a terrestrial network that can connect devices everywhere…”
  • Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
  • Someone got Doom in an SQL database
  • Top 100 Consumer AI Apps – Seventh Edition
  • Nvidia in talks to acquire US ‘open’ model start-up Reflection AI (FT)
  • US telcos shed $60bn in value after SpaceX announces spectrum purchase (FT)
  • OpenAI annualised revenues $20bn less than previously signalled (FT)
  • Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era by Satya Nadella
  • The AI-native SDLC playbook
  • Build your own decision model
  • The State of Devs

Weekly#709

  • Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify
  • OpenAI safety leader David Robinson resigns
  • Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents
  • OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model
  • Google launches Project Suncatcher, a step towards AI data centers in space
  • OpenAI alerts more than 100 groups about rogue AI agent activity
  • Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon
  • The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
  • What’s the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?
  • Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system
  • The Insurability of Artificial Intelligence
  • The rise, fall, and rise of portable MP3 players
  • Meta’s Muse can shop and check out
  • China’s Push Into A.I. Has Led to a Problem: Too Much Usage
  • OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap
  • Google Analytics for Firebase iOS SDK outage on September 28, 2026