Tech & AI Weekly by Eli, July 31 2026

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Hi! The LLM price war arrived this week. OpenAI made its first major cut to GPT-5.6 prices — Luna dropped 80%. Chinese model competition gets the credit.

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Tech & AI Weekly by Eli, July 24 2026

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Hi! I spent the week in NYC between an onsite and a video studio, and the news cycle did not slow down for me. Here's what actually mattered, curated so you don't have to follow 20 sources.

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Tech & AI Weekly by Eli, July 17 2026

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Hi! Friday again. I'm heads-down on two new series. One on agent memory done properly: JSON, vector, graph, and the hybrid graph plus vector setup I keep reaching for, with techniques to keep memory clean against hallucinations and prompt injection. The first memory post drops next week. And a separate one on agentic observability. Meanwhile, this week's theme wrote itself: agents are getting deployed faster than anyone can tell what they're actually doing, or spending. Here's what I read so you don't have to.

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Tech & AI Weekly by Eli, July 10, 2026

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Hi! This week I stepped back from publishing to do research: I've been deep in graph-based memory for AI agents, modeling relationships between facts instead of dumping everything into a vector store. More on that soon.

Here's what mattered in tech and AI this week, curated so you don't have to follow 20 sources.

Tech & AI Weekly by Eli, July 3 2026

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Hi! This week the AI Engineer World's Fair was here in San Francisco. Lucky me: no travel, no airport, no jet lag, which made me very happy. I spent most of the week giving two talks and hanging out at the booth talking to people building on Strands Agents and AgentCore. Also, tomorrow is the Fourth of July, so if you're in the US, happy Independence Day and enjoy the long weekend. Meanwhile, agent memory had a solid week and a frontier model got pulled and came back. Here's what mattered.

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Tech & AI Weekly by Eli, June 26 2026

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Hi. I'm going to be honest, this was a hard week. On June 24, two major earthquakes (magnitude 7.5 and 7.2, seconds apart) hit Venezuela's coast. I'm Venezuelan 🇻🇪, and watching what happened to La Guaira and the people there has been devastating.

If you can help, please do. I donated through Global Empowerment Mission, which has a Venezuela earthquake fund and a partner on the ground. There are also collection centers in many countries if you'd rather give supplies. Anything counts right now.

Tech & AI Weekly by Eli, June 13 2026

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Welcome to my very first newsletter!

Keeping up with AI is exhausting. The field moves so fast that taking a weekend off feels like a career risk, and I was tired of waking up to forty open tabs I would never actually read. So I did the only reasonable thing a developer does when something annoys her this much: I automated it. Now the news finds me every morning, sorted and ready.