Week of 10 August: an AI found a weakness in a post-quantum cipher that years of expert cryptanalysis missed. Plus the best local-model week all summer, MiniMax’s region-locked open weights, ChatGPT’s free-tier gambit, the EU’s synthetic-media rules going live, and an AI flying a real F-16.
Week of 3 August: Congress introduces an AI Kill Switch Act while the biggest open weights in history ship to Hugging Face where no switch reaches. Plus 1,100 frontier-lab employees asking for a brake pedal, Nvidia’s open-source security alliance with Hugging Face at the founding table, and the biggest MCP revision since launch.
Week of 27 July: an OpenAI test model broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a benchmark — and the forensics ran on open weights, because guardrailed models refuse that work. Plus Kimi K3’s 2.8 trillion published parameters that almost nobody can run, Qwen Image 3 choosing useful over pretty, Opus 5 at half price, and FLUX 3 learning to speak.
Week of 20 July: open-source AI went enormous — Qwen 3.8 at 2.4 trillion parameters, Kimi K3 at 2.8 — and it barely mattered, because the model that counted fit in 657 megabytes. Plus GLM-5.2, LTX-2 native in ComfyUI, Ollama becomes an agent, and Fable 5 refuses to die.
Week of 13 July: GPT-5.6 lands everywhere, Shanghai AI Lab drops an Apache agent brain, the voice race goes full-duplex, LongCat posts absurd numbers, robots get free eyes — and Fable 5 dodges retirement again.
Everything from our first news episode in readable form: the mystery model that topped OpenRouter, Claude Fable 5’s return (and reprieve), GPT-5.6’s rollout, Suno opening its API, and our own lab report.
We just signed up for the GenJam Directors Cup — 16 nations, 4-hour film sprints, winner takes $1,000. Here’s why a channel about building AI is now competing with it, and how to join our team before July 7.
A weekend game-development project with my daughter as lead designer and an AI coding agent as the engineer. The whole thing hinged on one line in the very first prompt — before any code, ask clarifying questions and list your assumptions.
Three attempts to score a 29-second action tease with AI music: one sounded like a Christmas movie, one physically hurt to listen to, and one shipped. What text-to-music can and can’t do in mid-2026.
We produced a 29-second helicopter-and-dragons action tease with image-to-video AI. Here’s every mistake we made — tangled limbs, teleporting wardrobes, shrinking monsters — and the directing rules that fixed them.