This Week in All Things AI - Page 3
This Week in All Things AI
Feb 28
This Week in All Things AI - Week 9-2026
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...
Feb 21
This Week in All Things AI - Week 8-2026
Model release pace is relentless in February with Google releasing Gemini-3.1 Pro and AliBaba releasing Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on Chinese New Year's Eve. In terms of easy to use agentic tooling/services this week had Hugo Barra/David Singleton's Dreamer, Howie Lu with HyperAgent and Manus with their AI agents within Telegram chats Peter Steinberger of OpenClaw joining OpenAI generated buzz as well as Anthropic tightening the squeeze on using their subscriptions outside of their ecosystem Readers w...
Feb 14
This Week in All Things AI - Week 7-2026
The highly anticipated release of GLM5 and Mini Max 2.5 were the big highlights this week. ByteDance also released Seedance 2.0 though indications 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...
Feb 7
This Week in All Things AI - Week 6-2026
The rumors were strong that February would have a number of model releases and OpenAI and Anthropic both did not disappoint with the release of Opus-4.6 as well as Codex-5.3. Engineering leaders as well as founders/CEO of organisations should in my humble opinion read the subtext carefully of Greg Brockman's tweet as well as others such as Aaron Levie of Box, Addy Osmani of Google Deepmind on how software engineering processes need to adapt to take advantage of the increasing capabilities of m...
Jan 31
This Week in All Things AI - Week 5-2026
OpenClaw formerly known as Moltbot formerly known as Clawdbot was and remains the buzz on all social media channels. How long it stays on top of the attention game remains to be seen. Encourage readers to read about it but strongly recommend not letting your guard down with respect to thinking in terms of security and not giving out your personal credentials The release of Kimi 2.5 from Moonshot AI was also received quite well with it also being made available to Perplexity Pro and Max users R...
Jan 24
This Week in All Things AI - Week 4-2026
Lots of content around Claude Code since Anthropic's various tools Claude, Claude Cowork, Claude Code have collectively taken over mindshare across X, reddit, blogs, podcasts 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 of this weekly newsletter are encouraged to share this publication link to them and invite them to subscribe The following message...
Jan 17
This Week in All Things AI - Week 3-2026
Greetings friends particularly those in India which celebrated multiple festivals this week such as Lohri, Pongal, Makar Sakranti As evident by the torrent of content posted on the Telegram group and thus reposted in this newsletter, this week has kept curators such as yours truly busy with Anthropic's release of Claude Cowork, Salesforce launch of their Slackbot AI agent, updated image models from Zhipu and Black Forest Labs as well as other news. This week's edition of the newsletter is in ...
Jan 10
This Week in All Things AI - Week 2-2026
Engineering leads and Engineering Managers should definitely read Kaari Saarinen (CEO of Linear) X article entitled 'The disappearing middle of software work' as well as Addy Osmani's 'The Next Two Years of Software Engineering' Drama this week revolved around the unfortunate layoffs at Tailwind with the community rallying back with massively increased sponsorships as well as Anthropic tightening their rules which disallowed competing agentic harness such as Opencode as well as competitors su...
Jan 3
This Week in All Things AI - Week 1-2026
Wishing everyone and their loved ones a very Happy New Year Steve Yegge's 37 minute Youtube video linked below is what I've been sending to many engineers alongside Andrej Karpathy's and Boris Cherny's (creator of Claude Code) tweets to get them to understand the shakeup that is coming in AI assisted coding Deepseek's paper which gives a hint at what is likely to come with Deepseek v4 as well as how Chinese open weights/open source models might evolve in 2026 is exciting many people Whilst unrel...
Dec 27
This Week in All Things AI - Week 52-2025
Greetings to all those who celebrate Christmas. Zhipu and Minimax delighted fans with updated models such as GLM-4.7 and Minimax-M2.1 which show great results in early testing and bode very well for open source and open weight models. Andrej Karpathy ended the week with a banger of a post on X talking about the challenges programmers face today in unlearning old habits as well as keeping up with a much more complex mental model around tooling. Readers who think others in their family, friends...