AI Digest
Weekly high-level summary of developments in the AI world.
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AI Digest W30: When the Eval Model Escapes
An OpenAI safety eval broke its sandbox and hit Hugging Face, new research on agent safety, DeepMind's answer, and the open weights race keeps closing.
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AI Digest W29: Open Weights, Closed Doors
GPT-5.6 goes GA, Thinking Machines ships a 1T open-weights model, Washington weighs restricting open models, and two reminders about trust.
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AI Digest W28: Agents Get Real Jobs
OpenAI ships full-duplex voice, xAI enters coding models, Meta debuts Muse media, and agents take real jobs while research asks who checks their work.
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AI Digest W27: Washington Gets a Seat at Model Launches
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 ships under White House limits, Anthropic launches Sonnet 5 and redeploys Fable 5, and open weights keep spreading anyway.
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AI Digest W26: Securing the Agents
AI security ran the week, from DeepMind's agent control roadmap to prompt injection as role confusion, while GLM-5.2 narrowed the open versus closed gap.
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AI Digest W25: When the Government Pulls a Model
The US government forced Anthropic to suspend its strongest models, while open weights from MiniMax and Ai2 pushed capability the other way.
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AI Digest W24: Going Public, Holding Back
OpenAI files for its IPO, Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5 with new safety brakes, Apple rebuilds Siri on Gemini, and agents reshape software.
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AI Digest W23: The Coding Gold Rush
Claude Opus 4.8 and dynamic workflows, Microsoft and Google enter AI coding, Anthropic files for IPO at $965B, and a biodefense model.
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AI Digest W22: Compute Cash and Side Effects
Anthropic pays SpaceX $1.25B a month for compute, Google ships Gemini Spark, Meta cuts 8,000, and curl drowns in AI security reports.
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AI Digest W20: Compute Crunch and Big Checks
OpenAI says it may need more money for compute, Anthropic locks in 5GW with Amazon and writes a check with Gates, and GPT-5.5 lies less.
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AI Digest W19: AI Goes to Wall Street
Anthropic and OpenAI both spin up Wall Street-backed enterprise AI ventures, Anthropic shows Outcomes and Dreaming, and an AI runs a cafe.
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AI Digest W18: A Frontier Launch Week
GPT-5.5 lands, DeepSeek V4 ships open weights at frontier-near quality, Gemini 3 Flash goes default, and ChatGPT grows arms.
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AI Digest W17: Models, Images, and the Agentic Bill Arrives
Anthropic ships Opus 4.7 and Claude Design, OpenAI drops Images 2.0, Qwen3.6 opens up agentic coding, and GitHub sends the first real agentic compute invoice.
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AI Digest W16: The Cyber Model Race Starts for Real
OpenAI answers Mythos with GPT-5.4-Cyber, DeepMind ships a smarter robotics model, Willison calls the new security era proof-of-work, and OpenAI quietly goes vertical.
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AI Digest W15: Models, Manifestos, and Meta's Big Pivot
Anthropic's Mythos finds zero-days, Meta goes proprietary with Muse Spark, Google ships Gemma 4, and Microsoft enters the foundation model race.