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Aug 5, 2026
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4 min read
AI stopped being a thing you use and became a thing you answer for. Three stories from the last nine days.
Jul 30, 2026
7 min read
AI didn't take your job — it quietly handed you a second one, unpaid. This week the market put numbers on it.
Jul 29, 2026
Monday.com will grow 20% this year. It also just cut 620 people. Slide 3 explains which desk you're sitting at.
Jul 15, 2026
PLUS: Google started rationing Gemini — and Meta was first to get cut. TSMC's 3nm line is sold out through December. Anthropic is talking to Samsung about custom chips. And China's ban on humanlike AI took effect this morning.
Jul 1, 2026
3 min read
PLUS: Fable 5 is back — with a 50% usage cap. OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 Sol is locked to Trump-approved customers. Qualcomm just spent $3.9B to break NVIDIA's CUDA moat. And Grok 4.5 is a private beta for SpaceX + Tesla only.
Jun 27, 2026
PLUS: the open model that costs 3.5% of Opus 4.8. The factory shipping a humanoid every hour. And Mira Murati's AI that listens while it talks.
Jun 17, 2026
Three days after Fable 5's public launch, the US government shut it down. The builder workaround is already shipping — here's the new stack.
Jun 10, 2026
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 — the first public Mythos-class model. 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro vs Opus 4.8's 69.2%. Free in your plan until June 22. Then the bills land.
Jun 2, 2026
Anthropic closed $65B at $965B — passing OpenAI for the first time. Opus 4.8 dropped the same day.
May 23, 2026
Gemini Omni turns a still image into a physics-aware video, editable by chat. It's free on YouTube Shorts this week. Here's what to make.