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117 briefs · 2026

July 2026

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  • Saturday, July 25, 2026 — Good Saturday, NOLA. July 25th brings Claude Opus 5 — a major model release that's stealing the show — plus real talk…
  • Friday, July 24, 2026 — Good Friday, NOLA. July 24th brings a major new multimodal model, real-world supply chain security wins, and a hard…
  • Thursday, July 23, 2026 — Good Thursday, NOLA. July 23rd brings mathematical breakthroughs, infrastructure wins, and a reckoning on what AI can…

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…