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Weekly Links: Claude Design, Employee Cloning, and World Design

This week in the news: OpenAI follows Anthropic in keeping its newest security model restricted, LinkedIn gets into AI training labor market, and AI Robot demos keep getting more violent (someone rein in the marketing department!). On to this week's top stories: * Anthropic just launched Claude Design, an

Weekly Links: Robot Sprinters, Asimov's Laws, and Vibe Maintaining

H1 Unitree Unit sprints at human 100m speed, Asimov's laws still hold up to some extent, and Anthropic continues to make big moves.

Happy Easter Break

The newsletter is taking a break this week for the annual Easter holiday. We'll catch up on the news next week.

Weekly Links: TurboQuant, ARC-AGI-3, and Flash Floods

A focus on science and technical breakthroughs from the last week: Google's new LLM compression approach, using RNNs+LSTM for Flash Flood prediction, and hard problems for AI.

Weekly Links: A Deep Dive Into "Over the Top" AI Agents in the Enterprise

This week, we had an amazing "3claw summit" organized with some of my previous colleagues from 3scale. So great to hear what everyone is up to (including with AI!) - on the cutting edge in many cases! In the wider world, we got new OpenAI GPT 5.4

Weekly Links: Autosearch, Metacognition, and Machine Consciousness

Some great papers on cognition in AI and the latest code breakthroughs coming from brute force AI Agents applied human code.

Weekly Links: 'Input Companies', Frontier Models Over the Top, and Claude Cycles

AI helps a computer science legend prove a theorem, news organizations as 'AI input', and Anthropic's wild ride.

Weekly Links: AI and Weapons, Jobs, and Abstractions

This week, arguments broke out over the AI frontier model's uses for autonomous weapons and surveillance. Progress on abstration learning in LLMs and the jobs question becomes more pressing.

Weekly Links: 1000 Commits, Jailbreaking, and AI Movies

AI is still vulnerable to jailbreaks and will likely continue to be hard to secure. AI and the movie industry will have a challenging year again in 2026.

Weekly Links: $30B, White Collar Work, and Cognitive Surrender

Frontier AI labs get back on top with significant functionality gains. White collar works looks like it might indeed see mass replacement in the near future.

Weekly Links: Parallel Claudes, Financial Data Stocks, and Kona 1.0

A week of tech releases and AI market impacts. Frontier model makers are pushing the boundaries into multiple parts of the tech economy.

Weekly Links: The Agent Internet (Moltbook), Bubbles, and Planning on Mars

This week's most impactful story is the creation of Moltbook, the first social network for AI Agents. Lots of implications for knowledge discovery, security, and possibly AI takeoff.

Weekly Links: Gas Town, Claude's New Constitution, Calendar Breaches, and Commune

Claude Code gets a revised constitution, Agent coding reaches the next level with Gas Town and Gemini is vulnerable to calendar attacks.

Weekly Links: ChatGPT to get Ads, Musk on AGI Timelines, and the Web Content Death Spiral

Elon Musk in a long rambling interview that contains hidden gems, ChatGPT transforms its business model, and the impact of AI on Web content.

Weekly Links: ChatGPT logs, the AI Economy, and NVIDIA Self Driving

2026 is already moving fast with self-driving releases from NVIDIA, courtcases and Anthropic pushing hard on Enterprise adoption.

Weekly Links: Some Tweaks and the 2025 Whirlwind

2025 was a wild ride in AI. In this post we recap the year and there are some updates on the newsletter going forward.

Saturday Links: Icebergs, World Models, and Regulating Emotional Interactions

Job loss studies continue to mount up, regulations for chatbot interactions, world models, and the shape of the AI frontier.

Saturday Links: Agents meet Banks, Watermarking, and Google Pushes Harder

The EU begins to set rules for AI watermarking, Google and Mistral release new models + UK Banks begin adopting Agentic AI.

Sunday Links: Inevitable Jailbreaks, Disney Licensing, and Thinking Machines' Tinker

Disney frees its characters for Sora, OpenAI adopts skills, Tinker goes live, and MCP goes to the Linux Foundation.

Sunday Links: A Snapshot of the AI Future

Sunday Links: A Snapshot of the AI Future with five interviews from today's leaders that outline thinking about what's next.

Sunday Links: Toy Safety, Dogfooding, and Shared Task Representations

Large companies push AI internally (and their own products), AI Safety for toys is a hard problem, and neural structures in monkeys point to shared representations for generalization.

Sunday Links: Group ChatGPT, Deep Learning Weather Models, and American AI Regulation?

OpenAI releases group chats features for a subset of ChatGPT users, Anthropic pushes for AI regulation, and weather models get the deep learning treatment.

Sunday Links: Wikipedia, Microsoft Strategy, and AI Destruction

Google search messes up, Anthropic Claude used in Cyberattacks, Microsoft CEO shares long-term strategy, and the new book predicting AI Destruction.

Saturday Links: Browsers, $1.4T, and Advances in Continuous Learning

Reinforcement learning environments, orbital data centres, browser wars and blocking shopping bots.

Sunday Links: OpenAI safeguards, LLM Introspection, and Bubbles

OpenAI continues to make announcements at an unprecedented rate: changing corporate structure, data on usage, and a policy enforcement model. Anthropic detects signs of introspection in models, and markets keep bubbling along.