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This was the week of Claude Opus 4.8.

Last week we were expecting an Executive Order on Thursday.

Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards isn't worried AI will create a new class of permanently idle Americans — but argues it's still time for the government to fix the social safety net

You need a lot of data points to understand a new model, and what you have.

Everything impacts everything.

Do you feel as though you are living in a revolution?

Only six weeks after Opus 4.7, we have Opus 4.8.

Last week ended on a cliffhanger of sorts.

After months of uncertainty, the company's oversight body has a new lifeline

Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion Suit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman, Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026, and more!

Anthropic's Boris Cherny tells me major job loss due to automation really is coming — but job creation is, too. PLUS: the Pope's AI encyclical, and Trump abandons an AI executive order

If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:

His holiness has spoken, frequently about AI.

What AI-driven miracles will happen this year?

Google unveils AI model Gemini 3.5 and AI agent Gemini Spark, Omni turns images, audio, and text into video, Musk loses OpenAI court battle

Google once again has a model worth at least some consideration.

At Google I/O, new features bring AI agents into the inbox and YouTube in ways that further strain the relationship between publishers and platforms

Even in a relatively quiet period, AI is out there creating new knowledge.

OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API, Thinking Machines drops a new, highly responsive model designed for humanlike interactions in real time, and more!

Tasks are getting easier to automate — jobs aren't. What now?

I cannot emphasize enough the need to let kids be kids.

Musk vows to appeal; the judge vows to throw that case out, too

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At least we probably won’t have another pandemic.

A new report says X is resurgent — but it may be missing the bigger picture

This is what a lull looks like at this point.

The real recent story of AI has been the background work being done on Cybersecurity, as we process the Mythos Moment along with GPT-5.5, and figure out both how to patch the internet and what our new regulatory regime is going to look like.

In the first episode of the Platformer podcast, Box CEO Aaron Levie makes the case that you'll keep your job — but soon, you might not recognize it

We did reading yesterday.

Reading is the most fundamental thing in education.

What laws does superintelligence demand?

When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.

Elon Musk had lots of reasons to make a deal with Anthropic — but he wouldn’t have done it if he were ahead. PLUS: The incredible testimony of Shivon Zilis, and a big new study on school phone bans

A year ago, officials all but sneered at the idea of AI safety. A new frontier model has them reconsidering

First week of Musk v. Altman, OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal, DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models, and more!

The first step towards recursive self improvement

Our 243rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!

Think railroads, not crypto. PLUS: The government can't decide what to do about Mythos, and week one of the OpenAI-Elon Musk trial

ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text , Alibaba Drops Qwen 3.6 Max Preview , SpaceX is working with Cursor