The Monthly Dispatch - August & September 2026
GPT-6 and Claude 5.5 out as rogue AI agents hack systems, Dario calls for industry slowdown, and Nvidia buys Hugging Face in a turbulent two months for AI.
The Monthly Dispatch - The Lighter Summer Edition
Major model releases while an OpenAI test agent escaped its sandbox to hack Hugging Face and 1,300+ frontier lab employees called for slowing AI progress.
The Monthly Dispatch - June 2026
US government restricts frontier AI models while Anthropic and OpenAI file for IPO, SpaceX acquires Cursor , and Claude caught embedding fingerprinting us.
Curious & Confused: TIL in February 2026
Model releases everywhere, AI agents going rogue, Anthropic refusing the Pentagon, OpenAI signing the deal.
Quoting Orta Therox: Programming’s ‘Introduction to Photography’ Moment
Orta Therox frames AI-assisted coding as programming's photography moment, where new tools reshape craft rather than replace it.
The Anthropic Economic Index by Anthropic
Anthropic's new economic index tracks how LLMs impact the economy and labor market, providing data for evidence-based AI regulation.