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AUG 8 · No. 80
AI learns to write genomes, and to outlast a shutdown
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AUG 7 · No. 79
Google's brain drain meets AI's accountability gap
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AUG 6 · No. 78
The scaffolding cracks before the models do
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AUG 5 · No. 77
The week everyone argued about who's driving
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AUG 4 · No. 76
A billion users, a nuclear bet, and a price war
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AUG 3 · No. 72
AI aces the math, but everything downstream is creaking
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AUG 2 · No. 71
Robots got bodies while regulators got teeth
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AUG 1 · No. 70
The build-out gets bigger, the frontier gets cheaper
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JUL 31 · No. 69
The buildout outruns the guardrails
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JUL 30 · No. 68
Washington becomes AI's banker and its bouncer
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JUL 29 · No. 67
The week AI got good at finding cracks — including its own
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JUL 28 · No. 66
The AI trade's assumptions cracked all at once
2026
80 editions
August
- 08 AI learns to write genomes, and to outlast a shutdown
- 07 Google's brain drain meets AI's accountability gap
- 06 The scaffolding cracks before the models do
- 05 The week everyone argued about who's driving
- 04 A billion users, a nuclear bet, and a price war
- 03 AI aces the math, but everything downstream is creaking
- 02 Robots got bodies while regulators got teeth
- 01 The build-out gets bigger, the frontier gets cheaper
July
- 31 The buildout outruns the guardrails
- 30 Washington becomes AI's banker and its bouncer
- 29 The week AI got good at finding cracks — including its own
- 28 The AI trade's assumptions cracked all at once
- 27 The week nothing stayed inside its walls
- 26 The week the walls kept giving way
- 26 Open weights become a loyalty test
- 25 Bug-hunting becomes an AI product category
- 24 AI's capex race outruns its safety margins
- 23 The week nothing stayed inside its box
- 21 The sandbox stopped holding
- 20 Every gate in AI got tested at once
- 19 The week the story stopped being about the model
- 19 The week AI got physical
- 18 The AI money story splits in two
- 17 The week everyone claimed to be open
- 16 The next bet isn't the model anymore
- 15 The guardrails show up all at once
- 14 The bill comes due for moving fast
- 13 Nobody's checking anybody's homework
- 12 The week the scorecards didn't matter
- 12 The week scale ran into friction
- 11 This week, everybody crossed a line
- 10 The week the frontier outran its guardrails
- 09 Every lab picked a new frontier this week
- 08 Three labs just failed their own safety report card
- 07 The week AI oversight got teeth
- 05 The bill for agentic AI starts arriving
- 04 The record streak nobody wants credit for
- 03 The chip market flinched, the money didn't
- 02 Washington wants equity in AI, not just oversight
- 01 Loosen the model, tighten the rules
June
- 30 Out of the lab
- 29 Proof of work
- 28 The vacuum fills
- 27 Access by appointment only
- 23 The receipts came in
- 22 The week the U.S. took the keys
- 21 The grip keeps slipping
- 20 The control layer underneath the hype
- 19 Who's allowed to decide what AI can do
- 18 Every layer of the stack creaked this week
- 17 The jailbreak that wasn't
- 16 The kill switch worked. Now what?
- 15 Fable 5 had a three-day run
- 14 Ten thousand bugs, one Gemini phishing kit
- 13 Open weights, open markets
- 12 The labs are going public
- 11 The labs race to Wall Street
- 10 Fable 5, an IPO filing, and Musk's cloud
- 09 Off the benchmark, into production
- 08 The recursion arrives, and Apple waves it in
- 07 The week AI went public — and personal
- 06 Open weights, open questions
- 05 The week Washington found its AI voice
- 04 The bill for AI arrives
- 03 Washington blinks first at frontier AI
- 02 AI bills come due
- 01 The meter drops on AI coding
May
- 31 The week the agent became the story
- 30 The labs are buying the scaffolding
- 29 Faster models, stubbornly flat gains
- 28 The battle for AI's implementation layer
- 27 The $900 billion bet, and what surrounds it
- 26 Capital piles in. The Pope speaks. Agents go ambient.
- 25 Everything's on sale except the company building it
- 24 The proof, the hire, the lecture
- 23 The trillion-dollar week
- 22 Agents everywhere: AI stops waiting to be asked
- 21 The AI compute bill comes due
- 20 Frontier models cheat, find zero-days, get deployed anyway
- 19 Hello. This is EXTRA.SH.