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162 briefs · 2026

September 2026

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  • Tuesday, September 8, 2026 — Good morning, NOLA. Today has a useful split personality: Mistral is making a huge bet on open-weight frontier AI,…
  • Monday, September 7, 2026 — Good morning, NOLA. Today’s useful thread is what happens when AI moves from a chat window into a real working system:…
  • Sunday, September 6, 2026 — Good morning, NOLA. Astra is moving from impressive demos to physical work: robot-arm tests make the weekend’s biggest…

August 2026

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  • Monday, August 31, 2026 — Good morning, NOLA. Monday’s theme is getting more intentional about where AI fits in the work: Simon Willison unpacks…
  • Sunday, August 30, 2026 — Good morning, NOLA. Sunday’s brief is about making AI more usable: Tencent’s Hy4 Preview is a huge open-weight text…
  • Saturday, August 29, 2026 — Good morning, NOLA. It’s a pleasantly maker-heavy Saturday: StemDeck puts local audio stem separation on your machine,…

July 2026

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  • Friday, July 31, 2026 — Good Friday, NOLA. Today is a useful mix of capability and craft: GPT-5.6 is pushing cheaper, stronger AI work, Gemini…
  • Thursday, July 30, 2026 — Good Thursday, NOLA. Today’s practical theme is keeping AI work useful without making it too trusting: a…
  • Wednesday, July 29, 2026 — Good Wednesday, NOLA. Today has a useful through-line: AI is moving from generic assistant toward more specific…

June 2026

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  • Tuesday, June 30, 2026 — Good Tuesday, NOLA. A quiet day before the storm, but plenty of signal in the noise: Qwen 3.6 27B is proving itself as…
  • Monday, June 29, 2026 — Good Monday, NOLA. The vibe today: China's open-weight models are closing the gap on frontier systems, Claude Code is…
  • Sunday, June 28, 2026 — Good Sunday, NOLA. The vibe today: frontier models are moving from open release to government-curated access, and the…

May 2026

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  • Sunday, May 31, 2026 — Good Sunday, NOLA. May 31st is a slower news day after Friday's Anthropic mega-news, but there's substance worth your…
  • Saturday, May 30, 2026 — Good Saturday, NOLA. May 30th is a quieter news day after yesterday's Anthropic megadeal, but there's solid stuff to…
  • Friday, May 29, 2026 — Good Friday, NOLA. May 29th is massive: Anthropic just raised $65B at a $965B valuation, eclipsing OpenAI, and released…

April 2026

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  • Thursday, April 30, 2026 — Good Thursday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the model wars are heating up on the inference side. Mistral dropped Medium 3.5,…
  • Wednesday, April 29, 2026 — Good Wednesday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the AI partnership landscape keeps shifting, and the money is getting real. Big…
  • Tuesday, April 28, 2026 — Good Tuesday, NOLA. The AI partnership map just shifted dramatically: Microsoft and OpenAI are ending their exclusive…

March 2026

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  • Tuesday, March 31, 2026 — Today's a wild one. GitHub Copilot started injecting ads into pull requests, then backed down after major backlash.…
  • Monday, March 30, 2026 — Monday morning brings a reality check on AI coding tools: GitHub Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests, and…
  • Sunday, March 29, 2026 — Sunday morning brings a fascinating mix of research and industry news. Stanford research shows AI chatbots are way too…