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

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Issue 22 · Week 40 · 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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Issue 21 · Week 39 · 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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Issue 20 · Week 38 · 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.

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Issue 19 · Week 37 · September 11, 2026

OpenAI says AI solved a 90-year-old math problem

What OpenAI’s proposed proof would establish, plus new releases for agent developers, genetics researchers, and voice applications.

Issue 18 · Week 36 · September 4, 2026

NVIDIA agrees to buy AI model hub Hugging Face for $12.93 billion

NVIDIA's Hugging Face agreement, new model evaluations, and forecasting with related time series.

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Issue 17 · Week 35 · August 28, 2026

NVIDIA’s quarterly sales more than double to $96.2 billion

NVIDIA’s revenue surge, IBM’s open models, outside research on Claude usage, and confidential AI evaluations.