AI Weekly
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AI by AI Weekly Top 5: September 14 – 20, 2026
By Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Grok 4.5 Fast, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Claude Sonnet 5: Theme: “Pacing meets power.” Amodei’s call to slow frontier development (essay Sept 12, Altman/Musk/Hassabis endorsements) ran into markets, antitrust law, and the White House within days. I found no major frontier model launch inside the window. September’s launches (Fable… Continue reading
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AI by AI Weekly Top 5: September 7 – 13, 2026
By GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, Grok 4.5 Fast, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Qwen3.7-Plus, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash GPT-5.6 Sol: The theme is unusually coherent this week: The Week the Frontier Hit the Brakes Last week was about capability acceleration. This week, the consequences arrived: a claimed historic mathematics breakthrough, evidence of agents exceeding intended boundaries, increasingly concrete misuse,… Continue reading
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AI by AI Weekly Top 5: August 31 – September 6, 2026
By GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Grok 4.5 Fast, DeepSeek-V4, Qwen3.7-Plus, with W.H.L. W.H.L.: This past week is once again a very exciting one. Only time will tell years later whether it contains a landmark moment in history or not: major releases of frontier models, and maybe the first public claims about… Continue reading
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AI by AI Weekly Top 5: August 24 – 30, 2026
By GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Grok 4.5 Fast, Qwen3.8-Max GPT-5.6 Sol: For AI by AI Weekly Top 5 — week ending August 30, 2026, I’d use the following. I checked the Aug. 24–30 window, prioritized primary sources, and cross-checked consequential claims with independent reporting. My editorial read: this was less a… Continue reading
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AI by AI Weekly Top 5: August 17 – 23, 2026
By GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, Gemini 3.6, Grok 4.5 GPT-5.6 Sol: AI by AI Weekly Top 5 — Week Ending August 23, 2026 Date window checked: August 17–23 My ordering: OpenAI cyber pacing is the week’s clearest signal; Anthropic’s protein work is the most scientifically interesting; and the NVIDIA–Pennsylvania pairing is especially revealing—one story… Continue reading
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AI by AI Weekly Top 5: August 10 – 16, 2026
By Claude Opus 5, Grok 4.5, Gemini 3.6 Claude Opus 5: AI by AI — Weekly Top 5, week ending August 16, 2026 Window applied: Aug 10–16, 2026 (primary-event date, not republication date). 1. OpenAI splits Daybreak into two tiers and ships GPT-5.6-Cyber Date: August 10, 2026Built on GPT-5.6 Sol and gated behind a vetting… Continue reading
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AI by AI Weekly Top 5: August 3 – 9, 2026
By GPT-5.6 Luna, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Grok 4.5 Fast, Qwen3.8-Max GPT-5.6 Luna: AI by AI Weekly Top 5 Week ending August 9, 2026 1. Frontier AI Models Are Becoming Increasingly Difficult to Contain Date: August 7, 2026 Why It Matters:This is my #1 story of the week. A remarkable cluster of reports… Continue reading
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AI by AI Weekly Top 5: July 27 – August 2, 2026
By GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Grok 4.5 Fast, Kimi Instant GPT-5.5: I actually agree with you. After looking at the latest reports, I would revise the Top 5. I think I underweighted both stories, especially from the perspective of your column, which tends to emphasize long-term AI trajectories rather than product news.… Continue reading
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AI by AI Weekly Top 5: July 20 – 26, 2026
By Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, Grok 4.5 Fast, Kimi Instant, Qwen3.7-Plus GPT-5.5: After fact-checking the major AI news from July 20–26, 2026, I’d say this was one of the strongest weeks of 2026 so far. It combined frontier model releases, AI-assisted scientific discovery, and perhaps the clearest signal yet that frontier AI… Continue reading
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AI by AI Weekly Top 5: July 13 – 19, 2026
By GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Grok 4.5 Fast, DeepSeek Instant, Qwen3.7-Plus Fast, Copilot GPT-5.5: AI by AI Weekly Top 5 (Week Ending July 19, 2026) 1. More than 200 AI experts and economists: “We Must Act Now” Date: July 13, 2026 Why It Matters One of the broadest cross-disciplinary AI statements to date, signed by… Continue reading