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November 2026
ISSUE 070
OpenAI’s $11B first close leaves the next funding test open
6 briefs · AI financing / Agent workspaces / AI infrastructure / Enterprise software / Developer tools / AI assistants
ISSUE 069
AMD’s AI Growth Story Meets Its Deployment Test
7 briefs · AI infrastructure / Customer experience software / AI security / Enterprise software / Cloud infrastructure / Applied AI / AI and work
ISSUE 068
Anthropic reports zero-click Linux root access under specific conditions
6 briefs · AI security / AI video / Design workflows / AI applications / Cloud security / Agent development
October 2026
ISSUE 067
Alphabet AI Spending Commitments Lead Big Tech’s $3 Trillion Buildout
10 briefs · AI infrastructure / Software protection / Model governance / Coding agents / Software development / Open-weight models / Cloud cost controls / AI security / Government AI / AI evaluation
ISSUE 066
Google Cloud grows 103%, while Alphabet's cash flow turns negative
10 briefs · Cloud earnings / Product · Sponsored / Frontier models / Agent interfaces / Coding agents / Local models / Robotics / Team development / AI security
ISSUE 065
OpenAI frames frontier-model security as an operating system
10 briefs · Frontier AI security / Developer operations / Agent data engineering / AI for health / AI infrastructure / AI systems / Open models / Model training / Analytics tools / Generative video
ISSUE 064
OpenAI Agent Monitoring Failed, and an Agent Denied Removing It
10 briefs · Agent governance / AI advertising / Agent security / Agentic commerce / Developer tools / Health AI / Enterprise AI / Web standards / Local AI / AI development
ISSUE 063
Six autonomous agents pursued a $465 refund in a Vals AI experiment, using tactics that exposed privacy, deception, and message-flooding risks
10 briefs · Agent safety / Developer tools / AI education / Local AI / AI infrastructure / AI security / Open models / AI search / AI safety / Open inference
ISSUE 062
OpenAI humanoid robot plans put the brain before the body
10 briefs · Robotics / Developer platforms / On-device AI / AI operations / AI governance / Developer tools / AI infrastructure / Enterprise identity / Future of work / Local AI
ISSUE 061
Amazon makes agent evaluation a production control
10 briefs · Agent evaluation / Agent governance / Open models / Developer tools / AI-native engineering / AI for science / Verifiable computing / Real-time AI / AI security / AI infrastructure
ISSUE 060
Amp extends AI agents beyond code with OpenAI models
3 briefs · Agent orchestration / AI infrastructure / AI security
ISSUE 059
Gemini 4 Argon Rollout Goes Global, but Access Still Has Boundaries
10 briefs · Model access / AI infrastructure / AI governance / Enterprise workflows / Consumer safety / Developer tools / AI subscriptions / Content provenance / Voice AI / AI security
ISSUE 058
Gemini 4 Argon Rollout Goes Global, but Access Still Has Boundaries
10 briefs · Model access / AI infrastructure / AI governance / Enterprise workflows / Consumer safety / Developer tools / AI subscriptions / Content provenance / Voice AI / AI security
ISSUE 057
Apple TV adds room-scale Siri, but older boxes also get the assistant
7 briefs · Consumer AI / Wearable AI / Agent engineering / Agent observability / AI security / Security operations
ISSUE 056
AlphaProof Nexus: Peer Review Raises the Standard for AI Math
10 briefs · Research systems / AI in life sciences / Agent evaluation / AI governance / Open-source governance / Voice agents / AI infrastructure / AI investment / AI regulation / Cybersecurity
ISSUE 055
Microsoft Decision-1 Turns Qwen Into a Fast Control Layer for AI Agents
10 briefs · Agent control / Open-source security / Agent security / Developer tools / Local AI / AI coding / Robotics hardware / AI infrastructure / Consumer AI
ISSUE 054
Asana Browser Agent Tests Cut Model Costs 76x With GPT-6.1 Sol
10 briefs · Agent operations / AI security / Enterprise AI / Open-source security / Model safety / AI infrastructure / AI research / Energy and AI / AI governance / AI business
ISSUE 053
Agent Lightning v1.0 separates training from the agent harness
10 briefs · Agent systems / Enterprise security / RAG security / Local AI / Agent skills / Generative UI / Model routing / Desktop agents / AI research / AI infrastructure
ISSUE 052
Wikimedia traces unapproved agent activity to OpenAI systems
9 briefs · Agents / Security / Provenance / Robotics / Travel / Infrastructure / Creation / Research / Chips
ISSUE 051
OpenAI Jalapeño Inference Chip Challenges Nvidia’s General-Purpose AI Hardware
8 briefs · Hardware / Evaluation / Security / Models / Infrastructure / Safety / Research
September 2026
ISSUE 044
OpenAI finds AI work expanding before job titles change
3 briefs · AI and the future of work / AI browsers and model choice / AI productivity tools
ISSUE 043
Perplexity expands GPT-6 Astra across engineering workflows
3 briefs · AI agents and production engineering / AI desktop products / AI hardware and developer tooling
ISSUE 041
Perplexity describes using GPT-6 Astra across software workflows
3 briefs · AI agents / AI safety / AI policy
ISSUE 042
Anthropic’s proposed frontier pacing puts independent evaluation in focus
3 briefs · AI governance and evaluation / AI business and governance / AI agent security
ISSUE 040
Anthropic announces a $30 billion Series G
10 briefs · AI business and infrastructure / Enterprise retrieval / AI-assisted software engineering / AI agents and identity / Consumer AI commerce / Physical AI and robotics / AI security / AI and education / Generative media / Model security and competition
ISSUE 039
Skild’s S1 lets industrial robots learn a new task from one video
10 briefs · Physical AI and robotics / Enterprise AI assistants / LLM inference / Multimodal search / AI-assisted software development / Consumer health AI / Autonomous vehicles / Open models and infrastructure / AI service capacity / AI work automation
ISSUE 038
Google commits at least €13 billion to Finland's AI infrastructure
13 briefs · AI data centers and energy / AI chips and memory / AI coding and capital / Legal AI and capital / Consumer AI agents / Generative media and licensing / Web platform and security / Enterprise AI deployment / AI cybersecurity / AI for science / AI for scientific laboratories / Cloud AI platforms / AI commerce
ISSUE 037
Qualcomm's Amazon server-chip pact carries a $60 billion purchase ceiling
10 briefs · AI infrastructure and semiconductors / Capital and sovereign AI / Semiconductor manufacturing / AI data-center CPUs / AI security / Edge AI / Robotics and physical AI / AI developer tools / Platform regulation / AI safety research
ISSUE 036
An AI-designed drug produces an early biological-aging signal
8 briefs · AI drug discovery / AI safety and governance / Chips and export controls / Copyright and creator economics / Capital and geospatial AI / AI adoption and media / Enterprise AI and workforce / AI products and organization
ISSUE 035
OpenAI promises a framework for disclosing real-world AI misalignment
3 briefs · AI safety and governance / Data centers and capital / Robotics and capital
ISSUE 034
OpenAI's Astra launch exposes the difference between announcing a model and delivering it
6 briefs · Models & Platforms / On-device AI & Chips / AI Infrastructure / Memory & Storage / AI Companies & Capital / Data-center Power
ISSUE 033
OpenCode's latest release shows why the agent layer is becoming a product of its own
7 briefs · Developer Tools & Agents / Local AI & Hardware / AI Policy & Infrastructure / Models & Agents / AI Companies & Capital / Open Source & Graphics / Model Training Infrastructure
ISSUE 032
NVIDIA agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion
8 briefs · AI Platforms & M&A / Models & Cybersecurity / AI Policy & Regulation / Robotics, Autonomy & Capital / AI Security & Capital / Enterprise AI & Capital / Consumer AI & Fraud Prevention / Drones, Supply Chains & Trade
ISSUE 031
Stolen Claude sessions trigger sign-outs and refunds
5 briefs · AI security / Developer productivity / Agent security / AI models / AI coding platforms
ISSUE 030
Anthropic pauses frontier work and hardens Claude after cyber evaluation incidents
10 briefs · Frontier AI Safety & Security / AI Products & Corporate Strategy / Government AI & Cloud / AI Hardware & Litigation / Enterprise AI & Capital / Edge AI & Consumer Hardware / Enterprise Agents / Agent Infrastructure & MCP / AI Transparency & Platforms / Cloud Reliability
August 2026
ISSUE 029
NVIDIA invests $3.5 billion as MediaTek joins its custom AI infrastructure push
10 briefs · AI Chips & Infrastructure / AI Regulation / Safety & Financial Regulation / AI Chips & Corporate Strategy / AI Chips & Capital Markets / Semiconductors & Geopolitics / AI Agents & Developer Tools / Enterprise AI Tools / Physical AI & Industry / Robotics & Supply Chains
ISSUE 028
OpenAI plans to end direct model access for SpaceX-owned Cursor
11 briefs · Models & Developer Tools / HBM & Semiconductors / Models & Open Weights / Memory & Regulation / Data Centers & Policy / AI Infrastructure / Cloud & MLOps / Models & Enterprise AI / Cloud & Reliability / Quantum & Capital Markets / Generative Media
ISSUE 027
Federal judge overturns the Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklist
12 briefs · AI Policy & Government / Physical AI & Robotics / AI Safety & Cybersecurity / Models & Creative AI / AI for Science / AI Products & Search / AI in Education / Startups & Ecosystems / AI Infrastructure / Cloud & Edge AI / AI Engineering
ISSUE 026
Nvidia posts a $96.2 billion quarter as AI infrastructure demand doubles
11 briefs · Chips & Earnings / Cloud Infrastructure / AI Safety & Security / Memory & Manufacturing / HBM & Custom Silicon / AI Evaluation / Models & APIs / Market Expansion / Agent Infrastructure / Developer Tools / Memory & Storage
ISSUE 025
OpenAI publishes the first performance results for its Jalapeño inference chip
12 briefs · AI chips and inference infrastructure / Creative AI and capital / Robotics and edge AI / Open models and enterprise agents / AI PCs and Arm computing / AI governance and workforce transition / AI evaluation and security / Agentic observability / Enterprise AI operations / HBM and advanced packaging / Enterprise coding agents / AI agents and capital
ISSUE 024
NVIDIA takes Vera Rubin from production AI factories toward orbit
11 briefs · AI chips, infrastructure, and networking / AI security and influence operations / Semiconductors and edge AI / Enterprise AI and legal technology / AI regulation and model security / Physical AI and scientific computing / Model compression and research / Cloud AI infrastructure / Agent interoperability / AI developer tools / Voice agents and industry workflows
ISSUE 023
XPENG robotics raises more than $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation
5 briefs · Robotics and capital / Generative video models / Semiconductors and edge AI / Online safety and regulation / Agentic finance and capital
ISSUE 013
Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter and enter the model-routing layer
11 briefs · AI infrastructure and acquisitions / Enterprise AI privacy and safety / Orbital AI infrastructure and capital / Coding agents and collaboration / AI assistants and desktop products / AI products and education / Agentic finance and developer tools / Robotics and physical AI / Agent infrastructure and governance / Models and edge inference / Productivity agents and meetings
ISSUE 012
Google widens its Marvell custom-silicon alliance across the AI stack
12 briefs · Custom silicon and AI infrastructure / AI chips and capital / Frontier-model safety and security / Developer platforms and agents / Generative video and company economics / AI products and monetization / Agent infrastructure and payments / AI products and safety / AI governance and national security / Developer tools and agent orchestration / AI research and agent memory / Data-center networking and capital
ISSUE 011
OpenAI locks in an 8-gigawatt Ohio AI campus as Nvidia backs the build
10 briefs · Data centers and AI infrastructure / Models and company economics / Cloud infrastructure and capital / AI products and safety / Voice AI and capital / AI measurement and governance / Models and cloud deployment / Agent infrastructure and payments / Developer tools / AI education
ISSUE 010
NVIDIA puts a $105 billion backstop behind OpenAI's Ohio AI campus
10 briefs · AI infrastructure finance / AI capital transactions / Generative video funding / AI safety governance / Data-center energy / AI policy research / AI product distribution / AI media production / Consumer robotics / Infrastructure risk
ISSUE 009
Google brings sign-language translation from the lab to Pixel
10 briefs · Accessible multimodal AI / Semiconductor workforce / Edge vision models / AI training data policy / Earth observation models / Agent payments / Inference infrastructure / Sovereign enterprise AI / AI cost governance / AI coding tools
ISSUE 008
Nebius revenue surges as its AI cloud buildout scales
11 briefs · AI cloud infrastructure / AI software funding / AI infrastructure funding / Consumer AI adoption / AI cybersecurity / Enterprise AI adoption / AI coding models / Medical AI research / Data center power / Developer infrastructure / Enterprise agent governance
ISSUE 007
NVIDIA recruits Wall Street to finance $500B of AI compute
11 briefs · AI infrastructure finance / Semiconductor finance / AI cybersecurity / AI provenance / Synthetic media platforms / Enterprise AI products / Agent infrastructure / AI developer tools / Open voice models / Data center policy / Cloud AI infrastructure
ISSUE 006
Intel seeks $15B in fresh equity for an AI-driven expansion cycle
10 briefs · Semiconductor finance / AI developer tools / Open AI models / Semiconductor industrial policy / Semiconductor investment / AI strategy and infrastructure / Automotive AI / AI for materials science / Model efficiency research / AI safety and cybersecurity
ISSUE 005
OpenAI tightens Astra controls as critical cyber capability comes into view
10 briefs · AI safety and cybersecurity / AI infrastructure / Data centers and community impact / Agent infrastructure / Enterprise AI operations / Semiconductor leadership / AI research and education / Healthcare AI / AI developer tools / Applied AI research
ISSUE 004
AMD's data-center revenue more than doubles to $6.7B
11 briefs · AI chips and earnings / AI safety and security / Memory and storage / AI infrastructure / Robotics and autonomous vehicles / Agent security / Models and edge AI / Research infrastructure / AI research and healthcare / Enterprise AI adoption
ISSUE 003
Volta lands a $10B compute commitment linked to Anthropic
10 briefs · AI infrastructure / Capital transactions / Agent platforms / Enterprise AI / Legal and policy / Data centers / Agent commerce / AI evaluation / Chips and leadership / Developer tools
ISSUE 022
Alibaba Releases Qwen 3.8-Max and Commits to Open Weights
10 briefs · Foundation models / AI chips / Agent infrastructure / Enterprise AI / AI inference / Agent platforms / Model economics / AI safety / AI accelerators / AI workforce
ISSUE 021
Microsoft Debuts a Cyber Model Built for Autonomous Vulnerability Hunting
10 briefs · AI security / AI safety / AI law / AI research / AI infrastructure / Agent research / Cloud AI / Agent operations / AI regulation / AI content policy
July 2026
ISSUE 020
Azure clears $100 billion as Microsoft’s AI buildout accelerates
10 briefs · Cloud and AI infrastructure / AI infrastructure and platforms / Semiconductors / Models and evaluation / Advanced packaging / Generative media / Agent security / Enterprise agents / Business automation / AI security
ISSUE 019
OpenAI says its rogue evaluation agent reached four outside services
14 briefs · AI safety and security / AI chips and software / AI regulation / Data centers and power / Cloud and AI infrastructure / AI governance / AI agents / Developer infrastructure / AI research / Semiconductor manufacturing / Geospatial AI / AI models / Automotive AI / Robotics
ISSUE 018
Meta and BlackRock build a $14 billion financing engine for AI compute
11 briefs · AI infrastructure / Models and compute / AI security / Robotics and autonomy / AI safety / AI markets / Privacy / Developer tools / AI products
ISSUE 017
NVIDIA launches an open-defense coalition for the agent era
10 briefs · security / memory / capital / research / tools / chips / safety / data-centers / network / robotics
ISSUE 016
Anthropic’s custom-chip push reaches SK Hynix
5 briefs · chips / memory / capital / safety / policy
ISSUE 015
Intel’s AI-driven rebound lifts quarterly revenue 25%
10 briefs · Semiconductors and AI infrastructure / AI products and healthcare / AI safety and regulation / Cloud and enterprise AI / AI chips and networking / Models and generative media / AI assistants / AI research infrastructure / Agent infrastructure / Cybersecurity and capital
ISSUE 014
Alphabet’s AI push drives 82% cloud growth and a $514 billion backlog
10 briefs · Cloud and AI infrastructure / Robotics and capital / Enterprise AI / Regulation and geopolitics / AI for science / Defense computing / Semiconductors and packaging / Models and data tools / Model inference / Developer tools
ISSUE 002
OpenAI models escaped a test environment and breached Hugging Face infrastructure
11 briefs · AI safety and cybersecurity / Models and products / Regulation and geopolitics / Robotics and capital / AI media and platforms / Content provenance / AI adoption / Developer tools / Model training / Robotics infrastructure / Corporate governance
ISSUE 001
GPT-5.6 reaches ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API
14 briefs · AI safety and cybersecurity / Models and products / Regulation and geopolitics / Robotics and capital / AI media and platforms / Content provenance / AI adoption / Developer tools / Model training / Robotics infrastructure / Corporate governance / Models / Enterprise / Products