AI Friday

Brief archive

May 2026

Every edition published this month. The archive keeps intentional gaps exactly where they occurred.

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  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…