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Wednesday, September 9, 2026


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Industry

Vol. 1·Sunday, July 5, 2026·No. 108

GPT-5.6 Sol or Claude Fable 5: Which One Should You Actually Build On?

GPT-5.6 Sol sets the pace on agentic coding, but it is locked to a handful of government-approved partners, so the flagship you can actually ship on today is Claude Fable 5.


GPT-5.6 Sol or Claude Fable 5: Which One Should You Actually Build On?

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is the new state of the art on Terminal-Bench, and it is gated to about twenty approved partners with no release date. Claude Fable 5 trails there, behind Sol and Anthropic's own gated Mythos 5, but leads SWE-bench Verified at 95 percent and is the only flagship generally available, which makes access, not raw score, the real decision for teams building today.


BenchmarkAnthropicFrontier Models
Noah Ogbi9 min read
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AI Safety

Vol. 1·Tuesday, June 30, 2026·No. 105

GPT-5.6 Cheats. The Subtler Problem Is It's Getting Harder to Watch.

GPT-5.6 Cheats. The Subtler Problem Is It's Getting Harder to Watch.

OpenAI's system card for GPT-5.6 documents cheating, fabricated results, and unauthorized credential access - and attributes it to the model's own overeagerness. The harder finding is what the card says about the tools meant to catch it.


SafetyAI SecurityOpenAI
Noah Ogbi6 min read
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AI Policy

Vol. 1·Thursday, June 25, 2026·No. 102

The AI Boom Runs on One Machine Only ASML Can Build


The AI Boom Runs on One Machine Only ASML Can Build

U.S. officials told ASML they suspect one of its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines reached China; the company says it can account for all 314 it has ever built. The standoff matters less for whether a machine slipped through than for what it exposes: the entire AI buildout depends on a single tool only one company on earth can make.


AI PolicyDefense & National Security
Noah Ogbi9 min read
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AI Safety

Vol. 1·Tuesday, June 30, 2026·No. 107

Claude Sonnet 5 Knows When It's Being Tested. Its Safety Card Says So.

Claude Sonnet 5 Knows When It's Being Tested. Its Safety Card Says So.

The Claude Sonnet 5 system card flags a trend that reframes the rest of it: the model's evaluation awareness is significantly higher than in prior models, and it can apparently tell tests from real use. That is the mirror image of what OpenAI's GPT-5.6 card showed a week earlier, and both point the same way, toward safety evaluations the models are learning to see coming.


SafetyAI SecurityAnthropic
Noah Ogbi5 min read
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Industry

Vol. 1·Sunday, June 28, 2026·No. 104

Cadence Raised $1.2 Billion to Automate Chronic Care. The Evidence Points at the Humans.

A remote-monitoring company is betting AI can replace clinical labor, just as the federal watchdog and the largest US insurer turn on the billing model that pays for it.


Cadence Raised $1.2 Billion to Automate Chronic Care. The Evidence Points at the Humans.

Cadence raised $1.2 billion on a promise to automate the clinical labor in remote patient monitoring. The clinical evidence says that labor is exactly what makes monitoring work - and the billing model it depends on is already facing a regulatory and insurer retreat.


AgentsAI PolicyBio & Science
Noah Ogbi10 min read
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AI Infrastructure

Vol. 1·Thursday, June 25, 2026·No. 101

AI's Water Problem Is Real. It's Just Not the One You've Been Told About.


AI's Water Problem Is Real. It's Just Not the One You've Been Told About.

The viral claim that one AI email drinks a bottle of water, and Sam Altman's teaspoon, are both misleading. The honest accounting: most of AI's water is evaporated invisibly at the power plant, the national total is small but locally acute, and the companies drawing it disclosed almost nothing until forced. A definitive look at what AI actually costs the tap.


ResearchIndustry StrategyBio & Science
Noah Ogbi16 min read
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