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1. September 10, 2026 · 4 min read

   Edition 011 — A Millennium Prize falls to AI agents, an Anthropic researcher quits with a warning, Mistral raises €3B, and Mercury 2.5 ships

   OpenAI's agent swarm claims a Millennium Prize by finding a Navier-Stokes singularity, an Anthropic researcher quits warning that self-improving AI could kill us all, Samsung leads Mistral's record €3B round, and Inception ships the fastest diffusion LLM yet.

   • models
   • research
   • Open Source
   • safety
   • funding

2. September 3, 2026 · 3 min read

   Edition 005 — The flagships traded blows, the open stack answered back

   Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash with a million-token window and DeepSWE-grade engineering, OpenAI crowns GPT-6 Astra its aligned flagship, and Moonshot pushes a trillion-parameter agentic coder into the open.

   • models
   • open-weights
   • google
   • openai
   • agentic

3. September 1, 2026 · 3 min read

   Edition 003 — The sparsity playbook: GLM 5.3 Flash, Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, Hy4 + agentic video

   Z.AI, Alibaba and Tencent ship big sparse MoEs while Gemini adds agentic video and token costs keep falling — the launches that reset the pricing math this week.

   • models
   • open-weights
   • cost
   • video

4. August 31, 2026 · 5 min read

   Edition 002 — GLM 5.3 Flash, Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, Hy4 + This Week's Biggest AI Releases

   GLM-5.3-Flash, Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, and Tencent Hy4 reset the cost math this week, plus 14 more briefs spanning image models, video, robotics and code.

   • models
   • open-weights
   • cost
   • video
   • robotics

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