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September 2026

  1. Good morning, NOLA. Today is a proper builder’s buffet: Meta has launched Muse, OpenAI has a new ChatGPT Images 2.5, and a tiny GitHub skill called I-have-ADHD…
  2. Good morning, NOLA. Today has a useful split personality: Mistral is making a huge bet on open-weight frontier AI, while practical tools keep making agents eas…
  3. Good morning, NOLA. Today’s useful thread is what happens when AI moves from a chat window into a real working system: OpenAI shares an inside look at coding a…
  4. Good morning, NOLA. Astra is moving from impressive demos to physical work: robot-arm tests make the weekend’s biggest model story feel a little more tangible.…
  5. Good morning, NOLA. Yesterday’s GPT-6 Astra launch is already turning into a practical weekend project: it’s now available through OpenRouter, while Simon Will…
  6. Good morning, NOLA. Today is an unusually practical big-release day: OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is rolling out with a serious focus on computer use and coding, while…
  7. Good morning, NOLA. Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash is today’s big release, with a specialized Cyber variant alongside it. Also worth your attention: Anthropic has l…
  8. Good morning, NOLA. Today’s headline is a fresh Claude release: Claude Fable and Mythos 5.1 arrive with a meaningful price change for builders. There’s also a…
  9. Good morning, NOLA. Today is a useful mix of the practical and the cautionary: demand for Mac minis and Studios is becoming an AI signal, Fal’s H3 Max Live is…

August 2026

  1. Good morning, NOLA. Monday’s theme is getting more intentional about where AI fits in the work: Simon Willison unpacks the unusually powerful—and unusually con…
  2. Good morning, NOLA. Sunday’s brief is about making AI more usable: Tencent’s Hy4 Preview is a huge open-weight text model, while Warp shares how it is building…
  3. Good morning, NOLA. It’s a pleasantly maker-heavy Saturday: StemDeck puts local audio stem separation on your machine, while The Analytical AI Handbook offers…
  4. Good morning, NOLA. Friday brings a notably practical batch: Google has new Gemini transcription and multimodal Flash models, while tools such as Tare and Wagt…
  5. Good morning, NOLA. The Hugging Face story we flagged Tuesday is no longer a sale rumor: Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire it, while OpenAI published its…
  6. Good morning, NOLA. Today is about putting agents to work without getting buried in the machinery: OpenAI has restored longer Codex and Work sessions for Plus…
  7. Good morning, NOLA. Today’s brief is about getting more capability for less friction: GPT-5.6 Sol just got cheaper, Qwen 3.6 is easier to run on a Mac, and a u…
  8. Good morning, NOLA. Today is a very builder-shaped brief: one person used four AI models to reclaim a locked-down tablet, another got Qwen to finish a reverse-…
  9. Good morning, NOLA. Sunday’s stack has a useful theme: make the agent you already have more capable and easier to steer. The new MCP roadmap points toward bett…
  10. Good morning, NOLA. The weekend brief is full of small, useful course-corrections: Claudette aims to make Claude’s prose less canned, while DeepSeek’s new expe…
  11. Good morning, NOLA. Today has a wonderfully scrappy builder energy: Huzzah proposes a more deliberate way to collaborate with a coding agent, while Vomit turns…
  12. Good morning, NOLA. Today’s best thread is about keeping AI-assisted building understandable: Don’t Paste the AI makes the case for owning the code you ship, w…
  13. Good morning, NOLA. Today is a useful snapshot of AI moving from novelty to everyday workflow: Claude Code has a temporary usage boost, Linear has data on how…
  14. Good morning, NOLA. Today’s brief has a practical theme: make AI do less reading, see more clearly, and cost less when it matters. AI;DR proposes a more intent…
  15. Good morning, NOLA. Today is about the practical limits and levers around AI: Anthropic has published the system prompts behind Claude, Simon Willison has a us…
  16. Good morning, NOLA. Sunday’s brief is less about another model launch and more about the craft of using the ones we have: a sharp essay argues that working wit…
  17. Good morning, NOLA. Saturday’s brief is about making AI more usable: Qwen 3.8 27B is a substantial new open model, Anthropic has a practical guide to getting m…
  18. Good morning, NOLA. Friday’s brief is unusually hands-on: Gemini 3.7 Flash gives builders a new speedy model option, while DeepSeek Harness and Bullet are comp…
  19. Good morning, NOLA. Today has a useful split personality: DeepSeek V4 Pro gives builders a fresh API model to test, Hax offers a deliberately small coding-agen…
  20. Good morning, NOLA. Today’s practical theme is AI moving closer to the workbench: ChatGPT arrives on Linux desktops, Google makes the case for Go as an AI-frie…
  21. Good morning, NOLA. Today’s brief is about making AI more personal and more accountable: Needle2 puts a tiny task-capable model on devices, Ante packages an of…
  22. Good morning, NOLA. Today has a strong builder’s-workbench feel: a thoughtful guide to learning hard subjects with LLMs, new disposable workspaces for AI agent…
  23. Good morning, NOLA. Sunday’s brief has a useful mix of real-world capability and the operational lessons that come with it: WeatherNext is buying forecasters m…
  24. Good morning, NOLA. It’s a quieter Saturday, but there’s plenty for builders: DeepSeek V4 Flash is putting up a notable result, Databricks has a useful reality…
  25. Good morning, NOLA. Today’s thread is AI becoming more capable—and the human judgment around it becoming more important. Qwen3.8 Max has moved to the top of an…
  26. Good morning, NOLA. Today has one major industry reset and a few genuinely useful reminders about where to apply judgment: Google is reshuffling DeepMind’s lea…
  27. Good morning, NOLA. Today is about putting a little more taste and judgment around the AI you ship: a sharp essay on why generic AI imagery can weaken a blog,…
  28. Good morning, NOLA. Today’s theme is using AI with enough judgment to stay in the driver’s seat: a widely shared essay argues that LLMs reward expertise, while…
  29. Good Monday, NOLA. Today has a satisfyingly builder-shaped mix: a delightfully weird frog-SVG benchmark, a practical look at AI carrying bugs through a COBOL-t…
  30. Good Sunday, NOLA. Today’s brief is about putting AI to work with a little more judgment: an MIT Sloan study finds that the quality of AI financial guidance de…
  31. Good Saturday, NOLA. It’s a quieter news day, which makes room for a few pieces worth actually sitting with: Tailscale’s Hugging Face intrusion post is a pract…

July 2026

  1. Good Friday, NOLA. Today is a useful mix of capability and craft: GPT-5.6 is pushing cheaper, stronger AI work, Gemini Robotics 2 gives robots a more coordinat…
  2. Good Thursday, NOLA. Today’s practical theme is keeping AI work useful without making it too trusting: a Copilot-for-Word security demo is a sharp reminder tha…
  3. Good Wednesday, NOLA. Today has a useful through-line: AI is moving from generic assistant toward more specific products and more consequential business bets.…
  4. Good Tuesday, NOLA. It’s a lighter news day, so this brief leans into the practical follow-ons worth keeping open: the new MCP specification, a handy way to cl…
  5. Good Monday, NOLA. Today’s strongest thread is making AI work more reliably in the real world: one team reports that a $500 fine-tune beat frontier models at c…
  6. Good Sunday, NOLA. July 26th brings fresh perspective on open-weight AI's explosive growth, practical context engineering for Claude 5, and a hard look at whet…
  7. Good Saturday, NOLA. July 25th brings Claude Opus 5 — a major model release that's stealing the show — plus real talk on what it actually takes to build with A…
  8. Good Friday, NOLA. July 24th brings a major new multimodal model, real-world supply chain security wins, and a hard look at AI's infrastructure economics. The…
  9. Good Thursday, NOLA. July 23rd brings mathematical breakthroughs, infrastructure wins, and a reckoning on what AI can actually do. Terence Tao just used ChatGP…
  10. Good Wednesday, NOLA. July 22nd brings model updates, security news, and a new wave of AI-powered enterprise tools. Google dropped Gemini 3.6 Flash and two new…
  11. Good Tuesday, NOLA. July 21st is shaping up as a reckoning day: China's open-weights strategy is outpacing US proprietary models, frontier labs are hitting eco…
  12. Good Monday, NOLA. July 20th is packed: Qwen 3.8 just dropped with serious performance claims, Claude Fable cracked a 30-year math conjecture (yes, again), and…
  13. Good Sunday, NOLA. July 19th brings a genuine shocker: GPT-5.6 just closed a 30-year gap in convex optimization using a prompt-engineered approach. Meanwhile,…
  14. Good Saturday, NOLA. July 18th is a quieter day news-wise—Latent Space calls it straight—but we've got some solid follow-ups and deeper dives worth your time.…
  15. Good Friday, NOLA. July 17th brings a wave of open model releases, major product launches, and a hard reality check on AI engineering practices. Today's vibe:…
  16. Good Thursday, NOLA. July 16th brings practical agent-building tools, a reality check on what coding agents can actually leak, and some solid releases from tea…
  17. Good Wednesday, NOLA. July 15th brings a wave of practical agent-building insights, some smart reality checks on AI thinking, and a few hardware surprises from…
  18. Good Tuesday, NOLA. July 14th brings practical tools for AI workflows, reality checks on coding agents, and a reality check on the broader AI landscape. Today'…
  19. Good Monday, NOLA. July 13th brings a reality check on the coding agent gold rush — Claude Code's token overhead is surprisingly high, and builders are already…
  20. Good Sunday, NOLA. July 12th is a quiet day after an absolutely wild week — Latent Space called it exactly. But we've got some genuinely interesting reads on t…
  21. Good Saturday, NOLA. July 11th brings the aftermath of OpenAI's massive week — GPT-5.6 Sol just proved a major math conjecture, there's legal drama heating up…
  22. Good Friday, NOLA. July 10th brings OpenAI's biggest launch week in months: GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna) is here, ChatGPT Work is rolling out across platforms, a…
  23. Good Thursday, NOLA. July 9th brings OpenAI's biggest real-time feature yet, a deeper look at the coding agent arms race, and the economics of AI adoption fina…
  24. Good Wednesday, NOLA. July 8th brings major product launches, serious security concerns, and a reminder that the economics of AI are getting clearer by the day…
  25. Good Tuesday, NOLA. July 7th brings fresh research into how AI models actually think, plus a wave of practical tools and a sobering look at the economics of AI…
  26. Good Monday, NOLA. July 6th brings a mixed bag: sqlite-utils hits 4.0rc3 (Simon's now running it end-to-end with Claude), Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Tu…
  27. Good Sunday, NOLA. July 5th is quieter than the week we just lived through, but there's plenty to dig into: sqlite-utils got a major overhaul courtesy of Claud…
  28. Good Saturday, NOLA. July 4th brings a quieter news cycle — perfect for catching up on what you missed. The week's biggest story: a grassroots movement to prot…
  29. Good Friday, NOLA. July 3rd brings a mixed bag: Claude can now watch videos, a clever prompt technique is beating Fable 5, and OpenAI might give the U.S. gover…
  30. Good Thursday, NOLA. The Fable 5 story just got bigger: free week of access is live, and the internet has thoughts on whether this "relaunch" is real or market…
  31. Good Wednesday, NOLA. Big day: Claude Sonnet 5 just dropped, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are coming back online after export restrictions lifted, and Claude Science l…

June 2026

  1. Good Tuesday, NOLA. A quiet day before the storm, but plenty of signal in the noise: Qwen 3.6 27B is proving itself as the sweet spot for local development, th…
  2. Good Monday, NOLA. The vibe today: China's open-weight models are closing the gap on frontier systems, Claude Code is proving useful for real-world problems, a…
  3. Good Sunday, NOLA. The vibe today: frontier models are moving from open release to government-curated access, and the fallout is already reshaping the global A…
  4. Good Saturday, NOLA. Today's vibe: The AI regulation story just got real. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 arrived hours after the White House asked them to slow roll it, Anth…
  5. Good Friday, NOLA. Today's vibe: AI quality control is messier than we thought (Ford's rehiring human inspectors), Apple's doubling down on on-device AI with t…
  6. Good Thursday, NOLA. Today's vibe: OpenAI's making its own silicon, Google just gave Gemini computer vision superpowers, and there's some real tension brewing…
  7. Good Wednesday, NOLA. Today's vibe: Claude gets a Slack upgrade that could change how teams work together, Mistral drops a powerful OCR tool, and Anthropic int…
  8. Good Tuesday, NOLA. Today's focus: Claude's Extended Thinking output may be less authentic than advertised, OpenAI ships a new security model with DayBreak (GP…
  9. Good Monday, NOLA. June 22nd brings a reality check on Claude's new security layer, a major enterprise deployment, and some thoughtful takes on why bigger mode…
  10. Good Sunday, NOLA. June 21st brings practical infrastructure news, a sobering look at how we're actually using AI agents, and some real talk about the gap betw…
  11. Good Saturday, NOLA. June 20th is a quieter news day, but we've got a legit research finding worth thinking about, a major talent move at Anthropic, and a benc…
  12. Good Friday, NOLA. June 19th brings the open-source coding model story into sharper focus, a major talent reshuffling at the frontier labs, and some practical…
  13. Good Thursday, NOLA. June 18th brings hardware ambitions, a major talent move, and a reminder that local AI can be a different tool than frontier models. The b…
  14. Good Wednesday, NOLA. June 17th brings some genuinely useful product news and a big M&A move. GLM-5.2 is the new top open-source coding model, Genesis AI is re…
  15. Good Tuesday, NOLA. June 16th brings some genuine product news after days of Fable fallout. Anthropic just launched Claude Corps — a managed service for enterp…
  16. Good Monday, NOLA. June 15th brings the fallout from the Fable shutdown into sharp focus—plus some genuinely useful stuff on the practical side. Today's vibe:…
  17. Good Sunday, NOLA. June 14th is all aftermath and perspective on the Fable 5 shutdown. Yesterday's government order has sparked a firestorm of takes about how…
  18. Good Saturday, NOLA. June 13th is dominated by one story: the US government just shut down Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos models, citing national security conc…
  19. Good Friday, NOLA. June 12th is all about real-world chaos from Claude Fable 5. Yesterday's guardrails controversy has evolved into something messier: an AI ag…
  20. Good Thursday, NOLA. June 11th is all about fallout from Claude Fable 5's controversial guardrails. Anthropic walked back a policy that would've deliberately d…
  21. Good Wednesday, NOLA. June 10th brings the long-awaited Claude Fable 5 launch—Anthropic's most capable model yet—but with some controversy around its usage pol…
  22. Good Tuesday, NOLA. June 9th brings Apple's bold move into on-device AI and a reality check on AI's pace. The big story: Apple's new AI architecture built arou…
  23. Good Monday, NOLA. June 8th brings real talk about AI's impact on work, plus a flood of practical tools for builders. The big story: engineers are grappling wi…
  24. Good Thursday, NOLA. June 4th brings real pricing signals and practical takes on AI risk. Uber's $1,500/month AI cap shows what happens when enterprises actual…
  25. Good Wednesday, NOLA. June 3rd is consolidation day after yesterday's IPO shock. The Economist digs into whether the market can handle three mega-IPOs at once,…
  26. Good Tuesday, NOLA. June 2nd brings the biggest financial story of the year so far: Anthropic just confidentially filed for an IPO, and Google is raising $80 b…
  27. Good Monday, NOLA. June 1st brings a mixed bag: the cost reckoning continues (people are canceling AI subscriptions), there's a nasty security issue with ChatG…

May 2026

  1. Good Sunday, NOLA. May 31st is a slower news day after Friday's Anthropic mega-news, but there's substance worth your time: Corporate America is rationing AI a…
  2. Good Saturday, NOLA. May 30th is a quieter news day after yesterday's Anthropic megadeal, but there's solid stuff to dig into: Mistral's summit brought some in…
  3. Good Friday, NOLA. May 29th is massive: Anthropic just raised $65B at a $965B valuation, eclipsing OpenAI, and released Claude Opus 4.8 with Dynamic Workflows…
  4. Good Thursday, NOLA. May 28th brings a reality check wrapped in some genuine wins. Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit — but that doesn't mean t…
  5. Good Wednesday, NOLA. May 27th brings practical reality checks and some genuinely useful releases. We're tracking honest takes on AI-assisted coding, the econo…
  6. Good Tuesday, NOLA. May 26th brings a reality check after last week's agent hype. We're seeing honest takes on what AI actually does to your coding workflow, p…
  7. Good Monday, NOLA. May 25th is a slower news day after a week that reset expectations. We're diving into practical agent tooling, real-world AI workflows, and…
  8. Good Sunday, NOLA. May 24th arrives after a week that fundamentally reset AI expectations. All model labs are now agent labs — the industry pivot is complete.…
  9. Good Saturday, NOLA. May 23rd brings a quiet day after a wild week — the perfect time to dig into some thoughtful reads. We're tracking a new standard for AI-f…
  10. Good Friday, NOLA. May 22nd brings the echo of a wild week: Runtime (YC P26) just launched with a fresh take on coding agents, AI-assisted engineers are burnin…
  11. Good Thursday, NOLA. May 21st brings the fallout from a wild 48 hours: OpenAI's model just solved an 80-year-old math problem, infrastructure is heating up wit…
  12. Good Wednesday, NOLA. May 20th brings the fallout from Google I/O 2026 — new Gemini models, agentic AI that actually works, and some serious talent moves. The…
  13. Good Tuesday, NOLA. May 19th brings some major industry consolidation and a reality check on the last six months of LLM progress. The big story: Anthropic just…
  14. Good Monday, NOLA. May 18th brings some hard truths about AI in real workflows, a sharp Rust-based coding agent, and a conversation about whether all this hype…
  15. Good Saturday, NOLA. May 16th brings some reality checks and infrastructure moves: Amazon workers are gaming AI adoption metrics, DeepSeek V4 is raising eyebro…
  16. Good Friday, NOLA. May 15th brings practical wins and a reality check on AI's actual impact: Anthropic partners with the Gates Foundation, Codex arrives in Cha…
  17. Good Thursday, NOLA. May 14th brings practical wins for small business and the legal tech boom continues. Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business with low…
  18. Good Wednesday, NOLA. May 13th brings some solid practical wins: a tiny 26M model that can do tool calling, a rethink of how AI interacts with your screen, and…
  19. Good Tuesday, NOLA. May 12th brings a reality check on AI agents: why use Python if AI writes the code?, a sharp new voice interface model from Thinking Machin…
  20. Good Monday, NOLA. May 11th brings some solid practical lessons: local AI is becoming table stakes, Claude Code is teaching us hard lessons about agent quality…
  21. Good Sunday, NOLA. May 10th brings some quieter news, which is perfect for catching up on what actually matters: OpenAI's new realtime voice APIs, Google's mul…
  22. Good Saturday, NOLA. May 9th is about understanding the real impact of AI on work and security—not the hype, but the hard lessons. AI is breaking vulnerability…
  23. Good Friday, NOLA. May 8th brings a reckoning on AI quality and real-world impact. DeepSeek 4 now runs locally on Metal, Google's AlphaEvolve shows coding agen…
  24. Good Thursday, NOLA. May 7th is all about the big compute deals and what they mean for the AI economy. Anthropic just locked in a compute partnership with Spac…
  25. Good Wednesday, NOLA. May 6th brings a reckoning on AI in the real world: OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 Instant, a faster model that trades some capability for speed.…
  26. Good Tuesday, NOLA. May 5th brings a fresh wave of agentic coding takes, a landmark OpenAI voice architecture deep-dive, and some serious thinking about what h…
  27. Good Sunday, NOLA. May 3rd brings a fresh batch of tools and releases—Open Design lets you use AI as a design engine, Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude and GPT-5.5 in…
  28. Good Saturday, NOLA. May 2nd brings some wild stories: Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months, Apple accidentally left Cla…
  29. Good Friday, NOLA. May 1st brings a mixed bag: Claude Code is refusing requests tied to competitive tools, malware showed up in a major ML library, and the big…

April 2026

  1. Good Thursday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the model wars are heating up on the inference side. Mistral dropped Medium 3.5, ChatGPT's ad infrastructure is under scruti…
  2. Good Wednesday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the AI partnership landscape keeps shifting, and the money is getting real. Big moves from OpenAI and AWS on managed agents…
  3. Good Tuesday, NOLA. The AI partnership map just shifted dramatically: Microsoft and OpenAI are ending their exclusive revenue-sharing deal, GitHub Copilot is m…
  4. Good Monday, NOLA. Today's vibe: agents in the wild are getting messy, and it's teaching us real lessons. We've got a sobering postmortem on an AI agent that d…
  5. Good Sunday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the model wars cool off a bit and we get some legitimately interesting applications. An amateur solved a 60-year-old math prob…
  6. Good Saturday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the model wars just heated up. Yesterday OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 with serious reasoning gains, and now DeepSeek V4 just dropp…
  7. Good Friday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the model wars just got real. OpenAI dropped GPT-5.5 with major reasoning improvements, and DeepSeek V4 is here proving you do…
  8. Good Thursday, NOLA. Today's vibe: agents are becoming real. OpenAI just shipped Workspace Agents for ChatGPT—AI that actually does work inside your business t…
  9. Good Wednesday, NOLA. Today's vibe: clarity after confusion. ChatGPT Images 2.0 just dropped with better quality and faster generation, Claude Code pricing dra…
  10. Good Tuesday, NOLA. The post-Claude Design wave keeps rolling—today we're digging into what happens when AI tooling actually ships fast (Deezer's seeing 44% of…
  11. Good Monday, NOLA. The post-Opus 4.7 energy is still simmering—we've got Claude system prompt deep-dives, fresh token counting tools, and a reality check on AI…
  12. Good Sunday, NOLA. The post-Opus 4.7 dust is settling, and we're seeing what happens when AI design tools actually work—plus some big industry moves that sugge…
  13. Good Saturday, NOLA. Yesterday's Opus 4.7 launch is already sparking the interesting conversations — we're seeing what happens when an AI actually becomes usef…
  14. Good Friday, NOLA. Today's the day Anthropic's been building toward: Claude Opus 4.7 is here, and it's a meaningful step up across the board. Meanwhile, Qwen j…
  15. Good Thursday, NOLA. Big day for mobile AI: Google's Gemma 4 now runs fully offline on iPhone, no internet required. Meanwhile, Claude had a rough day with wid…
  16. Good Wednesday, NOLA. Claude Code just got a major upgrade with Routines — reusable workflows that could change how you use AI for coding. Meanwhile, Google's…
  17. Good Tuesday, NOLA. The AI coding wars keep heating up — everyone's racing to own the developer stack (we covered this yesterday), but today we're seeing the r…
  18. Good Monday, NOLA. The AI coding wars are officially heating up — everyone's racing to own the developer stack. Meanwhile, GPUs just went to space, Apple's qui…
  19. Good Sunday, NOLA. Quiet weekend, but some solid moves brewing: researchers just showed how top AI agent benchmarks can be gamed, Cirrus Labs is joining OpenAI…
  20. Good Saturday, NOLA. Weekend vibe: Linux just blessed AI contributors with official guidance, a new YC startup is automating code reviews, and the conversation…
  21. Good Friday, NOLA. Today's vibe: Claude's hitting some real-world accuracy issues, the Claude Code ecosystem is getting serious scrutiny (and developers are vo…
  22. Good Thursday, NOLA. Today's vibe: Anthropic just dropped Claude Managed Agents — a major new capability for building autonomous workflows — and the broader st…
  23. Good Wednesday, NOLA. Today's vibe: Anthropic's making serious moves on security and cybersecurity capabilities, Google's gone offline-first with dictation, an…
  24. Good Tuesday, NOLA. Today's vibe: Claude Code keeps proving itself despite hiccups, the compute arms race is getting real, and Anthropic just locked down major…
  25. Good Monday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the Claude Code story keeps reshaping what's possible—a developer just shipped a project in three months that took eight years…
  26. Good Sunday, NOLA. The Claude Code vulnerability story keeps deepening—AI is now genuinely accelerating security research in unexpected ways. Meanwhile, the in…
  27. Good Saturday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the Claude Code story keeps unfolding in wild ways—vulnerability research is now genuinely accelerated by AI—while the indus…
  28. Today's big story is OpenAI acquiring TBPN, the popular tech talk show that interviews founders and AI execs live every weekday. Google's countering with Gemma…
  29. The big story today: Claude Code's entire source code leaked through a misconfigured file, and the internet had a field day reverse-engineering Anthropic's pla…
  30. Today's a wild one: Claude Code's source code leaked via an NPM packaging mistake, revealing everything from fake tools to "frustration regexes." Meanwhile, Gi…

March 2026

  1. Today's a wild one. GitHub Copilot started injecting ads into pull requests, then backed down after major backlash. Meanwhile, Sora is apparently struggling, a…
  2. Monday morning brings a reality check on AI coding tools: GitHub Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests, and Claude Code has a bug that nukes your rep…
  3. Sunday morning brings a fascinating mix of research and industry news. Stanford research shows AI chatbots are way too agreeable when giving personal advice, W…
  4. Saturday morning, and the AI world keeps moving. Claude's mysterious .claude/ folder gets a teardown, vibe coding SwiftUI apps is turning into a legit workflow…
  5. Good morning! Google just dropped Gemini 3.1 Flash Live with more natural audio AI, and they're rolling out Search Live globally. Meanwhile, someone built a $5…
  6. Google just dropped TurboQuant, a breakthrough that lets you run massive AI models on regular hardware through extreme compression. Meanwhile, Ensu brings loca…
  7. Sora is dead. OpenAI's video generation tool posted its goodbye yesterday, and the HN thread has almost a thousand points. Meanwhile, the builders keep buildin…
  8. Sora is dead. OpenAI's video generation product announced its shutdown today, which didn't stop OpenAI from also unveiling shopping inside ChatGPT via somethin…
  9. Someone got a massive AI model running on an iPhone 17 Pro, which topped Hacker News today. Claude Code had its moment with a cheat sheet and productivity guid…
  10. Starlette 1.0 shipped—the web framework underneath FastAPI that's been running in production for years. Christopher Meiklejohn wrote up teaching Claude to do m…
  11. Simon Willison published two pieces today: a "mildly dystopian" experiment profiling HN users from their comments, and a practical guide to using Git with codi…