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 time: Corporate America is rationing AI as costs skyrocket, the MCP...
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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 as costs skyrocket, the MCP...
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 interesting takes, we've got real insights...
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 for Claude Code. The market is...
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 the hype cycle has stopped. Meanwhile,...
Good Wednesday, NOLA. May 27th brings practical reality checks and some genuinely useful releases. We're tracking honest takes on AI-assisted coding, the economics shifting toward local models, and...
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, plus a fascinating Vatican moment that's...
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 some thoughtful takes on what's actually...
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. We're also tracking Google's new...
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-friendly documentation, how AI multiplies...
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 burning out, and the infrastructure gold rush...
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 with Anthropic expanding to Colossus2, and...
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 big story: Andrej Karpathy just joined...
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 acquired Stainless, a developer tools...
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 actually speeds things up. The day's...
Good Saturday, NOLA. May 16th brings some reality checks and infrastructure moves: Amazon workers are gaming AI adoption metrics, DeepSeek V4 is raising eyebrows in the open-source world, and a new...
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 ChatGPT mobile, and Claude just landed a...
Good Thursday, NOLA. May 14th brings practical wins for small business and the legal tech boom continues. Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business with lower pricing, Clio hits $500M ARR as legal...
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 a reality check on how companies are...
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 Machines, and Claude is now available on AWS....
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, and there's real conversation...
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 multimodal file search, and a solid look at...
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 disclosure norms, Claude is learning to...
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 agents scaling across domains, and...
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 SpaceX worth $5B/year, massive...
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. Meanwhile, the day's biggest...
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 happens when code gets cheap. DeepClaude...
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 coding, and Mljar Studio launched a...
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 Claude.md files in its Support app, and...
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 tech earnings calls revealed how...