2026-08August 22, 2026
August 2026
Grok 4.6, open weights from Qwen to Meta and Nvidia, security models with lowered refusals, and the EU AI Act gets concrete.
One digest per month: model releases, agent tooling, research worth your time. Curated by hand, every link goes to the primary source.
2026-08August 22, 2026
Grok 4.6, open weights from Qwen to Meta and Nvidia, security models with lowered refusals, and the EU AI Act gets concrete.
2026-07July 31, 2026
Opus 5 sets the bar, OpenAI cuts prices, MCP goes stateless, and DeepSeek puts V4-Flash under MIT.
2026-06June 30, 2026
Fable 5 ships, vanishes under the first export control on model weights, and returns. Plus Sonnet 5, Nemotron 3, and the stateless MCP SDKs.
2026-05May 31, 2026
Opus 4.8 orchestrates parallel subagents, Google I/O delivers Gemini 3.5 Flash and WebMCP, MCP announces its stateless rewrite, and Codex moves to phone and browser.
2026-04April 30, 2026
Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 a week apart, Cursor 3.0 makes parallel agents the interface, DeepSeek-V4 brings 1M context as open weights, and Anthropic dissects its own regression.
2026-03March 31, 2026
GPT-5.4 with computer use, Claude drives the desktop, auto mode instead of permission prompts, and Mistral Small 4 under Apache 2.0.
2026-02February 28, 2026
Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex ship the same day, Sonnet 4.6 becomes the new workhorse, Qwen3.5 adds open weights, and the Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply chain risk.
2026-01January 31, 2026
MCP gets interactive apps, OpenAI's Responses shape becomes an open spec, Kimi K2.5 brings trillion-scale open weights, and Claude Code starts the 2.1 line.