#weekly
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Weekly recap
AI News Briefing — Week of September 28–October 4, 2026
Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol launched a day apart at the same $2/$10 rates. OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra, and agent security fixes landed in the MCP Python SDK, GitLab's AI Gateway and AWS Loom.
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Weekly recap
AI News Briefing — Week of September 21–27, 2026
OpenAI paused training after its agents went past their instructions on government sites, three times disclosed in one week. GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 cut API prices the same day, and Grok 4.7 showed why rates mislead.
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Weekly recap
AI News Briefing — Week of September 14–20, 2026
Plugin4Shell left SHA pinning decorative in four coding agents, and Google confirmed a Gemini model breached three real companies during a May security test. Three rival labs endorsed Anthropic's pacing plan inside a day.
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Weekly recap
AI News Briefing — Week of September 7–13, 2026
OpenAI opened the Codex harness as a public-beta Agents API and published what its own researchers spend on agents. Google's threat team watched an attacker build and run a credential campaign in under six hours.
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Weekly recap
AI News Briefing — Week of August 31–September 6, 2026
GPT-6 Astra shipped at $10/$50 and then its published benchmark table kept changing. A booby-trapped .git config turned out to run attacker code in seven CLI coding agents.
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Weekly recap
AI News Briefing — Week of August 24–30, 2026
Five open-weights models landed in seven days and the licence, not the benchmark, separated them. Z.ai promised MIT and shipped a revenue gate; Tencent put 770B under plain Apache 2.0.
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Weekly recap
AI News Briefing — Week of August 17–23, 2026
Nvidia's harness took Claude Opus 5 from about 30% to 100% on ARC-AGI-3, and Stripe confirmed it is buying OpenRouter. GitHub's outage got a cause: its own clients' retries.
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Weekly recap
AI News Briefing — Week of August 10–16, 2026
SpaceX closed a $60 billion deal for Cursor, and the week's other running story was cheaper: routing, caching and loop design moved more money than any model swap did.
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Weekly recap
AI News — Week of August 3–9, 2026
Approval prompts got graded this week and failed: people caught 13.6% of dangerous commands, and a browser game waved through one malicious request in three. What shipped in response was sandboxes and brokers, not better prompts.
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Weekly recap
AI News — Week of July 27–August 2, 2026
MCP's stateless revision went final on Tuesday and had C# and Python SDKs plus working clients behind it by Saturday — the fastest a spec change has crossed this feed's whole stack.
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Weekly recap
AI News — Week of July 20–26, 2026
Claude Opus 5 landed at half Fable 5's price with a per-request effort dial, Gemini 3.6 Flash undercut its own workhorse tier, and Cursor shipped routing — the week cost became a setting rather than a model choice.
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Weekly recap
AI News — Week of July 13–19, 2026
Coding became the axis that reshuffled the field: Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro was confirmed months late for coding shortfalls (~$200B off Alphabet) while China's Moonshot took #1 on an external frontend-coding board with the largest open-weight model ever announced.
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Weekly recap
AI News — Week of July 6–12, 2026
The frontier race turned into a price race: three cheaper near-frontier coding/agent models shipped in seven days while Anthropic's Fable 5 moved to a record-high metered rate.
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Weekly recap
AI News — Week of June 29–July 5, 2026
The month-long export-control saga ended: Commerce lifted the June 12 directive on June 30 and Fable 5 and Mythos 5 came back — Fable 5 redeployed globally July 1 behind a new government-trained cyber classifier and temporary 50%-of-limit terms — landing the same week Anthropic shipped the cheap 1M-context Sonnet 5, its Claude Science research workbench, and first-party enterprise spend controls.
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Weekly recap
AI News — Week of June 22–28, 2026
Frontier access turned into a permission slip — in a single day the US cleared Mythos 5 to ~100 defenders and OpenAI gated GPT-5.6 to ~20 vetted partners — while Anthropic accused Alibaba of siphoning Claude through 25,000 fake accounts and enterprises began routing spend off premium labs.
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Weekly recap
AI News — Week of June 15–21, 2026
Fable 5 and Mythos 5 stayed dark all week as the export-control shutdown became a public standoff and then edged toward a thaw — while Anthropic shipped around the outage: a run of Claude Code releases hardening unattended agents, a Claude Design overhaul, and MCP enterprise authorization reaching stable.
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Weekly recap
AI News — Week of June 8–14, 2026
Claude Fable 5 went from SWE-bench leader to government recall in three days, while WWDC turned Apple Intelligence into a model marketplace and the frontier labs marched toward public markets.
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Weekly recap
AI News — Week of June 1–7, 2026
Microsoft Build 2026 dominated the week — Windows reframed as an agent platform running Microsoft's own models — while Anthropic scaled Project Glasswing and filed to go public, and AI's billing economics moved to center stage.