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July 2026.1

July 6, 2026

Fable 5 is back, but its return shows how frontier model access now depends on policy, routing, safety classifiers, and credits. The rest of this week’s...

June 2026.5

June 29, 2026

This week connects three questions: where frontier AI is hosted, who gets access to it, and how we train the next generation of engineers in a world where...

June 2026.4

June 22, 2026

Hey! This week had a strange mix: Open-weights models are catching up, image-generation companies are moving into medical hardware, and the old question of...

June 2026.3

June 15, 2026

Last week felt like a glimpse into the next phase of AI. Models are becoming more capable, but also more expensive, more restricted, and harder to access....

June 2026.2

June 8, 2026

This week brings a nice mix of local AI, practical machine learning, desktop development, and internet culture. We got a new multimodal model that can run on...

June 2026.1

June 5, 2026

Hey! Here's what caught my attention this week. Story 1: Local AI Needs to Be the Norm unix.foo · Read Most AI apps today just integrate the OpenAI or...