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1. September 21, 2026 · 13 min read

   Edition 018 — Frontier scaffolding, a 5.9 GB model that keeps 98% of a 27B, and the week Google finally spoke

   Frontier scaffolding instead of chat: Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, Claude Code Projects, Meta's Muse for Mac and Google's Gemini breach disclosure — plus DeepSeek's 890-byte KV cache, a 5.9 GB ternary 27B, Needle 3, real-time translation, music and video generation, and three humanoid stories.

   • robotics
   • frontier-models
   • Open Source
   • safety
   • audio
   • small-llm
   • AI

2. September 13, 2026 · 5 min read

   Edition 014 — The frontier asks to slow down

   The people building the fastest AI systems are now publicly arguing for restraint. Dario Amodei asks the frontier to pace itself; Enflame's Shanghai debut and Positron's $875M bet reshape the chip race; Salesforce formalizes agent governance; and new research quantifies the quiet flood of AI text into government back offices.

   • governance
   • research
   • safety
   • pacing
   • chips
   • enterprise

3. 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

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