Anthropic's policy change of disallowing their Pro/Max subscribers to use it for third-party harnesses such as Openclaw/Hermes was the big news event capping week 14. Other news was the release of Qwen-3.6 Plus , Gemma 4, GLM-5V-Turbo, 3 in-house models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 from Microsoft and compendium of material about voice dictation tools including Wispr Flow's March updates Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances who are curious in kn...

Anthropic's policy change of disallowing their Pro/Max subscribers to use it for third-party harnesses such as Openclaw/Hermes was the big news event capping week 14. Other news was the release of Qwen-3.6 Plus , Gemma 4, GLM-5V-Turbo, 3 in-house models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 from Microsoft and compendium of material about voice dictation tools including Wispr Flow's March updates Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances who are curious in kn...

The pace at which LLM's are being refreshed is insane. Week 12 had OpenAI's GPT-5.4-mini, Minimax-2.7 which helped design and optimize its own training and evaluation harnesses. Cursor's Composer-2 which itself was built on top of Kimi-K2.5. Anthropic has also been on a roll with its shipping velocity on Claude Cowork as well as Claude Code. Other interesting things were Fal's release of its MCP server and Packy McCormick's and Pim de Witte's 19K word article on World models. Readers who thin...

The pace at which LLM's are being refreshed is insane. Week 12 had OpenAI's GPT-5.4-mini, Minimax-2.7 which helped design and optimize its own training and evaluation harnesses. Cursor's Composer-2 which itself was built on top of Kimi-K2.5. Anthropic has also been on a roll with its shipping velocity on Claude Cowork as well as Claude Code. Other interesting things were Fal's release of its MCP server and Packy McCormick's and Pim de Witte's 19K word article on World models. Readers who thin...

Zhipu's launch of GLM-5.1 and Cognition's release of SWE-1.6 were the big highlights with respect updates to agentic codel models. OpenAI's $100/month ChatGPT Pro plan with a 5x Codex usage definitely makes it quite attractive. Elon Musk teases multiple large xAI models (up to 10T parameters) in training Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances who are curious in knowing more about rapidly evolving AI tools/services/use cases and would benefit from being subscribers...

Zhipu's launch of GLM-5.1 and Cognition's release of SWE-1.6 were the big highlights with respect updates to agentic codel models. OpenAI's $100/month ChatGPT Pro plan with a 5x Codex usage definitely makes it quite attractive. Elon Musk teases multiple large xAI models (up to 10T parameters) in training Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances who are curious in knowing more about rapidly evolving AI tools/services/use cases and would benefit from being subscribers...

Interesting news this week included Codewall's whitehat hack and responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities in McKinsey's AI platform. Openclaw's rise in China driven by firms offering hosted solution as well as China’s cybersecurity authorities are restricting OpenClaw usage in banks, SOEs, and government Lots of coding agents news with Agent 4 from Replit, OB-1 emerging as a “self-improving” coding agent with top Terminal Bench scores as well as comments from Elon Musk that xAI acknowledges ...

Interesting news this week included Codewall's whitehat hack and responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities in McKinsey's AI platform. Openclaw's rise in China driven by firms offering hosted solution as well as China’s cybersecurity authorities are restricting OpenClaw usage in banks, SOEs, and government Lots of coding agents news with Agent 4 from Replit, OB-1 emerging as a “self-improving” coding agent with top Terminal Bench scores as well as comments from Elon Musk that xAI acknowledges ...

Dreamer which launched just a month ago by Hugo Barra and David Singleton got execu-hired by Meta and joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs. I'm also very piqued by Littlebird with its 'agent-on-a-shoulder' approach via 'screen reading'. Whilst Anthropic definitely impacted its fans by tightening Claude's usage during peak hours, both OpenAI and Zhipu responding with increased rate limits and in the case of Zhipu launch of GLM-5.1 exclusively for now via its coding plan and showing via its ben...

Dreamer which launched just a month ago by Hugo Barra and David Singleton got execu-hired by Meta and joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs. I'm also very piqued by Littlebird with its 'agent-on-a-shoulder' approach via 'screen reading'. Whilst Anthropic definitely impacted its fans by tightening Claude's usage during peak hours, both OpenAI and Zhipu responding with increased rate limits and in the case of Zhipu launch of GLM-5.1 exclusively for now via its coding plan and showing via its ben...

February ends with some more model releases such as Google's Nano Banana 2 and Bytedance's Seedream 5.0 Lite which btw was used to create the header image for this weeks newsletter. Prompt used to generate the header image is at the end of the newsletter Other notable things releases where Notion Custom Agents, updates to Replit Agent , various additional features to Claude Cowork as well as Wispr Flow's availability on Android along with it offering free, unlimited dictation for ALL users. Z...

February ends with some more model releases such as Google's Nano Banana 2 and Bytedance's Seedream 5.0 Lite which btw was used to create the header image for this weeks newsletter. Prompt used to generate the header image is at the end of the newsletter Other notable things releases where Notion Custom Agents, updates to Replit Agent , various additional features to Claude Cowork as well as Wispr Flow's availability on Android along with it offering free, unlimited dictation for ALL users. Z...

The highly anticipated release of GLM5 and Mini Max 2.5 were the big highlights this week . ByteDance also released Seedance 2.0 though indiciations are that currently that is accessible only within China. Some discussion from a member on productivity gains he made after switching to a dictation tool Wispr Flow which I had suggested to him. There was also Matt Shumer's long post which went viral In the non-AI world, two major events happening in the following week based on lunisolar cycle hen...

The highly anticipated release of GLM5 and Mini Max 2.5 were the big highlights this week . ByteDance also released Seedance 2.0 though indiciations are that currently that is accessible only within China. Some discussion from a member on productivity gains he made after switching to a dictation tool Wispr Flow which I had suggested to him. There was also Matt Shumer's long post which went viral In the non-AI world, two major events happening in the following week based on lunisolar cycle hen...

The frontier labs are relentless in their launch of new models with Google Deepmind launching Gemini-3.1 Flash-Lite and OpenAI launching GPT-5.4 with impressive performance for their class. Cognition which makes Devin and Windsurf showed an early preview of their model SWE-1.6 which has a huge jump over their previous SWE-1.5 and offers 950 tokens/second inference via their Cerebras partnership Anthropic's new feature of importing preferences/context from other AI providers into Claude is its...

The frontier labs are relentless in their launch of new models with Google Deepmind launching Gemini-3.1 Flash-Lite and OpenAI launching GPT-5.4 with impressive performance for their class. Cognition which makes Devin and Windsurf showed an early preview of their model SWE-1.6 which has a huge jump over their previous SWE-1.5 and offers 950 tokens/second inference via their Cerebras partnership Anthropic's new feature of importing preferences/context from other AI providers into Claude is its...