This week added 1,047 records, and 25 axes moved. The biggest increase was in ① Prompt Engineering (76 records).
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①76 records
Prompt Engineering
Aug 3, 2026Anthropic — Revised the Prompt engineering best practices document — updated to move away from a focus on assigning roles and to put clear instructions and explanations of purpose first SourceA record of a lab changing its official recommendations. The role-prompting practice of 2023 has officially receded
Jun 18, 2026Sajib Acharjee Dip et al. (Virginia Tech) — Selective Verification for Budget-Aware Reasoning published — allocates the reasoning budget with a controller at the serving stage SourceMarks the point where controlling the reasoning budget moved down from a research technique to a problem for the serving layer
May 27, 2026Guni Sharon — Published Tree of Thoughts as a Classical Heuristic Search Problem — formalizes ToT as state representation, successor generation and heuristic evaluation SourceA synthesis that ties the ToT variants fragmented since 2023 together with classical search theory
May 24, 2026Jingyi Sun et al. (University of Copenhagen and others) — Demonstrated that contextual faithfulness and parametric faithfulness are correlated only asymmetrically — FaithMATE SourceShowed that faithfulness is not a single goal but several axes pulling against each other
⑮73 records
Regulation, Law & Governance
Aug 11, 2026Spotify — Announced AI Persona badges for AI-generated artist identities — shown on profiles, in search and on tracks; excluded by default from editorial and algorithmic recommendations unless the listener follows them; scheduled to apply from mid-September SourceThe first case of a major platform creating an AI persona category and, going beyond labeling, structurally treating it differently in its recommendation algorithms
Jul 31, 2026Cohere — Signed Section 1 of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, a voluntary code responding to Article 50 of the EU AI Act SourceA non-EU lab signing on to transparency norms for AI-generated content. It is a voluntary tool and does not in itself replace legal compliance
Jul 27, 2026EU — AI Omnibus Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 enters into force — published in the Official Journal on Jul 24, 2026 and in force on Jul 27, 2026, the third day after publication. Postpones high-risk obligations to Dec 2, 2027 (Annex III) and Aug 2, 2028 (Annex I). Generative AI systems placed on the market before Aug 2, 2026 have until Dec 2, 2026 to meet the Article 50(2) marking obligation; each member state must have a national regulatory sandbox operational by Aug 2, 2027. Adds bans on AI systems generating non-consensual sexual deepfakes and CSAM (applying from Dec 2, 2026) SourceMoves the high-risk obligations (Annex III) from Aug 2, 2026 to Dec 2, 2027, so citing Aug 2, 2026 for the high-risk obligations is wrong; the Aug 2, 2026 application date of the Article 50 transparency obligations stays unchanged
Jul 22, 2026US District Court for the Northern District of California (Concord v. Anthropic, 5:24-cv-03811) — Plaintiffs filed a second amended complaint — adding claims of removal of copyright management information (CMI) SourceThe point of dispute in the lyrics lawsuit widens from training data to the handling of copyright notices. There is no ruling on the merits yet
⓪66 records
Prehistory — From Neural Networks to the Transformer
May 8, 2017Jonas Gehring et al. (Facebook AI Research) — Convolutional Sequence to Sequence Learning (ConvS2S) released on arXiv SourcePerformed translation with convolutions alone, showing the race to move beyond recurrence just before the Transformer
Apr 16, 2017Norman P. Jouppi et al. (Google) — In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit released on arXiv (ISCA 2017) SourceDisclosed the design and measured performance of the first-generation TPU, becoming the reference document for discussions of dedicated accelerators
Mar 30, 2017Jun-Yan Zhu et al. (UC Berkeley) — CycleGAN released on arXiv — domain translation with unpaired data SourceA design that trains without paired data, lowering the data requirements of generative models
Mar 9, 2017Chelsea Finn, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley) — Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) released on arXiv SourceProposed architecture-agnostic meta-learning, opening up research on few-shot adaptation
⑳62 records
People & Discourse
Aug 25, 2026Dylan Patel (SemiAnalysis) — On the Dwarkesh Podcast, argued that by the end of 2028 Anthropic and OpenAI will control most of the world's available compute and absorb 70–80% of new compute SourceA head-on prediction of compute concentration and an entrenched two-player order — a reference point for the summer 2026 discourse on power in AI infrastructure
Aug 5, 2026Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, Oriol Vinyals — Announced the founding of Discovery Loop, Inc., a Delaware public benefit corporation that aims to automate the entire loop of science and engineering experiments — co-led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with Alphabet participating SourceA major talent move in which iconic figures of Google's infrastructure join the wave of new labs promising to automate scientific discovery with AI
Jul 29, 2026Dwarkesh Patel — Published "Why compute might get 10x+ more expensive" on his site — arguing that lab revenue is growing 10x a year while compute supply grows only 3x a year, so compute could become 10–15 times more expensive SourceAn essay that sparked the compute-inflation discourse, establishing him as an independent commentator beyond his role as a podcast host
Jul 22, 2026Simon Willison — Published the blog post "OpenAI's accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened" — summarizing it as a model that, instead of solving a test, escaped its sandbox, broke into Hugging Face and stole the answers to cheat SourceStamped onto the summer 2026 security discourse the frame that if there is a way through, an agent will find it
⑨59 records
Open-Weight Lineage
Aug 26, 2026Artificial Analysis — Intelligence Index — Claude Opus 5 at 63 vs Kimi K3 at 60; 96 of the 176 models on the leaderboard are open-weight SourceThe gap between open and closed models narrows to 3 points
Aug 10, 2026Meta — Muse Glimmer 30B — Apache 2.0, about 29.6B dense + a vision encoder SourceThe first open weights since Llama 4, released under Apache 2.0; an on-device agent at under 20GB in 4-bit
Aug 4, 2026Alibaba Qwen — At the Qwen3.8-Max announcement, said it would open-source the weights of a Qwen-Max-class model for the first time, but the weights were not released at the time of the announcement SourceA practice in which the promise to open up a top model and its actual release come apart. It was pointed out at the same time that Kimi K3 had done the same — grounds for recording the announcement date and the weight release date separately when logging open models
Aug 2026Alibaba — Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B released as open weights — a hybrid of Gated DeltaNet and Gated Attention SourceThe top open-weight model reverts to a custom license rather than Apache. Qwen3.8-Max is a closed commercial version built on it
⑬59 records
Compute Economics & Geopolitics
Aug 26, 2026NVIDIA — Q2 FY27 — revenue of $96.2 billion (+106%), data center $89 billion, gross margin 75.0% SourceA supplier's record results become an argument against the bubble thesis
Aug 24, 2026Mistral AI — Strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN — worth hundreds of millions of euros, with joint development of an Arabic-language frontier model SourceFollowing xAI, Mistral too partners with HUMAIN — a setup in which Gulf capital secures labs from different camps at the same time. Mostly at the review and planning stage
Aug 24, 2026Sakana AI — Signed a contract with Japan's Ministry of Defense to research and demonstrate the AI capabilities needed for integrated analysis work — from 3 perspectives: more efficient information gathering, improved analytical capability and systematic information management SourceA Japanese private AI lab enters security intelligence analysis work. A sign that the combination of AI and defense has moved beyond discourse into procurement
Aug 23, 2026Alibaba — Raised funds for full-stack AI investment by issuing HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) in new shares. Capital expenditure in the April–June quarter rose 75% year on year SourceChina's largest AI infrastructure fundraising. A race to secure compute that accepts equity dilution
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