ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week

Welcome to AGI - our GPT-6 deep coverage, vibe check and demoes - part 2 of this insane week

Hey, Alex here again, sending you yet another email, fully acknowledging that spamming you is a bad idea. But today, of all days, maybe there’s an exception! Because to

Welcome to AGI part 1 - Fable 5.1, Muse Spark beats Sol, 3 new world models blow our minds

Hey everyone, Alex here 👋 Summer is over. Wolfram said it in the first minute of the show and he was right. In 48 hours Anthropic shipped Fable 5.1, Meta’s Muse Spark 1.

NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face! GLM-5.3-Flash, Qwen4 Preview, Gemini Omni 1.1, and the Datacenter Debate w/ Andy Masley

Hey, it’s Alex. Welcome to the week Flash AI! 3 new models dropped this week named Flash, and a video model was “de facto” flash though was named Max! This week, we s

Chill week with Qwen 27B and GLM 5.3 beating GPTs, OpenAI announces pausing RL to focus on security and a cancer vaccine being produced

Hey this is Alex, welcome to... the chillest week in AI, since ... a long time. Chill, if you consider Moderna and MERK announcing a cancer vaccine and surging 115% in a

ThursdAI - Grok 4.6, Grok Bot deep dive, DeepSeek v4 Pro, Meta Muse Glimmer & more AI news | ThursdAi Aug 13

Hey, this is Alex, welcome back to your weekly dose of intense AI acceleration summer! My weekend was consumed by thinking about the OpenAI hack and agent swarms, but th

ThursdAI - Aug 06 - Google shakeup, Details on OpenAI hack, 2 new agent harnesses, 4 video models (1 Open) and 3 guest segments

Hey all, This week we saw a major shakeup at Google, with the departure of long time folks like Jeff Dean, and Oriol Vinyals, Demis stepping down from leading DeepMind,

This Week in AI: Open Weights, Frontier Models, Sandbox Escapes, Voice & AI Detection

Hey, it’s Alex (yeah, I’m finally back from my vacation!) What a freaking week to come back to! Just after our last episode was published, Anthropic releases Opus 5, Je

ThursdAI Special - OpenAI's Romain Huet on Codex's 5M users, GPT-5.6 & the Golden Age of AI Engineering

Hey everyone, Alex here 👋 This week’s episode is a little different. As you’re reading this, I’m flying back from my 40th birthday trip with the family, and while the gu

ThursdAI - Jul 16 - Inkling 975B open weights, Kimi K3 at 2.8T, a 27B model on a phone & Codex hits 9M

Hey yall, Alex here, Huge thanks to Wolfram for running point on the live show this week. Didn’t have tons of time to edit this one, so please skip the first 10 minutes

AI WorldCup (or superbowl?) GPT-5.6 lands mid-show, Zuck returns to X for Muse Spark 1.1, GPT-Live talks while it listens & Grok 4.5 trained with Cursor, Fable extended - ThursdAI - Jul 9, 2026

Hey everyone, Alex here 👋 Welcome to the AI World Cup? Or should I say Superbowl? as most of the releases this week are from US frontier labs. Of which there are 5 now b

ThursdAI - July 2 - LIVE from AI Engineer World's Fair 🎪 Long LIVE

Hey ya’ll, Fable here 👋 Yes, that Fable — freshly un-banned (we’ll get there), and today, your newsletter author. Here’s how this issue got made: Alex yapped into a mic

GLM 5.2 total victory: the week open source won and nobody panicked

Hey, it’s Alex. Next month is my 40th b-day, and honestly, my wish for that month is to have a week like this week. A very chill, almost nothing announced week. This w

Fable Got Banned, Open Source Delivered: GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7 & SpaceX Buys Cursor - June 18

Hey yall, Alex here, let me catch you up! I came back from vacation expecting to cover Fable 5 after a week of using it. The first two days after we all first got acces

📅 ThursdAI - Jun 11, 2026 - Fable & Mythos 5 are here, Anthropic gets caught sandbagging (then reverses), Siri AI finally works!? and we got live-translated on air

Hey folks, Alex here, and welcome to a BIG MODEL week! We finally got Mythos (well almost)! Let me catch you up! This week started with WWDC26 from Apple, and Max Weinb

📅 ThursdAI - Jun 4 - NVIDIA drops Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B open), Microsoft becomes a frontier lab, Ideogram 4 goes open, Agent Arena & more

Hey folks, Alex here, let me catch you up! I’ve had a feeling that this week is going to be crazy, as it started on the weekend MiniMax M3, then with Jensen announcing

📅 May 28 - Opus 4.8 ships mid-show, the Pope writes 42K words on AI, 11labs dubs the world and DeepSwe breaks coding evals

Hey folks, this is Alex, let me catch you up! First, Opus 4.8 dropped during the show, we immediately tested it, read on for our initial reviews. Also, we dedicated a h

AI just cracked an 80-year-old math problem nobody could solve — plus everything from Google I/O 26

Hey, Alex here, just got back from the sunny Shoreline Theater in Mountain view, so let me catch you up! This week was definitely Google heavy, we are covering Google’s

ThursdAI - May 14 - TML Interaction Models, Musk v Altman Disclosures, CW Sandboxes & /goal Takes Over

Hey everyone, Alex here 👋 I am back live on ThursdAI after a week off, and yes, I am now a married man! Thank you for all the congrats, and also thank you to Ryan and Ya

📅 ThursdAI - May 7 - Interviews with Sunil Pai, Sally Ann Omalley from AI Engineer Europe

Hey yall, Alex here (with a scheduled post) I’m taking this week off to get married and celebrate life with family, and touch some grass, but wanted to share the awesom

📅 ThursdAI - Apr 30 - DeepSeek V4 (1.6T MoE), Cursor SDK Wins WolfBench, Mayo's REDMOD Saves Lives, Stripe Gives Agents a Wallet & more

Hey everyone, Alex here 👋 Tomorrow is May. May! I genuinely cannot believe we’re four months into 2026 already, and the AI news cycle is showing zero signs of slowing do