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The Weekly Recall

The week in AI, read with a data and retrieval lens. One email a week.

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Issues

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October 23, 2026

AI keeps making more work for everyone else

Critical PHP flaws and the work of fixing them, mathematicians' objections to OpenAI's proof release, OpenAI on Google Cloud, Claude Duet, and specialized extraction models.

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October 16, 2026

Claude wrote so much code that Anthropic had to replace Git

Anthropic rebuilds source control, Meta releases open weights, Jev copycats improve, and independent evaluators move inside an AI lab.

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October 9, 2026

Jev owns System One. Who owns System Two?

Cheap decisions make shared judgment more valuable; AI mathematics needs verification, ChatGPT builds interfaces, and agents can finish without succeeding.

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October 2, 2026

OpenAI’s new agents don’t wait for you to ask

Proactive agents at Dev Day, cheaper capable models, and an API for small decisions.

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September 25, 2026

Jev-like models are fast and cheap enough to put absolutely everywhere

Cheap decision models turn up in grep, SQL and a chess controller; agents probe public data sites; Claude agents flag an enzyme system nobody has explained.

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September 18, 2026

AI chiefs call for slower AI development

Anthropic and OpenAI pledge independent evaluator access as AI takes on more of the work of building its successors.