LLMs, models, research, inference, and the frontier. — 30 transmissions
A Guidelight audit of five frontier labs finds nobody publishes a full plan for containing a rogue model — and Anthropic, the safety champion, scored zero.
A new independent study of real AI conversations shows that work-focused company reports filter out nearly half of what people actually do with AI.
YTL Power and JLand Group are building a gigawatt-scale data center campus in Sedenak, Johor. Here is what the deal actually covers and why it matters.
Cartesia released Sonic-3.6 in beta, claiming #1 on both Artificial Analysis speech leaderboards with sub-90ms latency across 44 languages.
Anthropic's annualized revenue hit $65B by July 2026 — a 7x jump in one year. The AI lab is now racing toward a $2T IPO this fall.
DeepSeek released Harness under MIT license — an agent framework where models, tools, sessions, and even the agent loop itself are swappable plugins.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B parameter MoE model with 1M context, free on OpenRouter, built for agentic AI systems.
After 25 years, Google redesigned its iconic search box with an AI-first interface. This pivot to AI search changes the game for developers and SEO.
OpenAI's Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 tokens per second on Cerebras wafer-scale chips, 14x faster with no quality loss.
Needle 2 is a 45M-parameter tool-calling model in a 14MB binary that runs a full session in 28MB of RAM. No GPU, no cloud, no problem.
Stripe finalized a $7B+ deal to acquire OpenRouter — the AI model gateway that lets developers access 400+ models through a single API.
OpenAI field report on eight agent-assisted projects shows coding agents modernize scientific software — verification and stewardship are the new bottleneck.
