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The Week in AI

Every week, the 5–7 AI developments that actually matter for people building with models and coding agents, each checked against a primary source.

All issues · 5

The Week in AI · No. 5The Week in AI #5: AI-found PHP bugs hit the wild, Anthropic's IPO numbers leak, and Meta's $825 billion in commitmentsAI news for October 19–25, 2026: PHP2Shell and OpenAI's Patch the Planet framework, Anthropic's reported $80.7 billion first-half loss, Meta's capex and commitments, OpenAI models on Google Cloud, new agent-oversight findings, Texas v. OpenAI and DeepSeek's reported $15 billion round.·7 min readThe Week in AI · No. 4The Week in AI #4: Gemini 4 Argon ships, regulators move on rogue AI agents, and a wave of open weightsOctober 12–18, 2026: Gemini 4 Argon goes generally available, the FTC and India's CERT-In act on AI agent incidents, Anthropic's $16.8 billion quarter, and open-weight releases from Meta, Nvidia, Reflection and DeepSeek.·7 min readThe Week in AI · No. 3The Week in AI #3: Claude Haiku 5.5, GPT-6 for everyone in ChatGPT, and Anthropic pulls its agents off the open internetOctober 5–11, 2026: a $0.10 Claude model with a 1M context, GPT-6 reaches free ChatGPT users, Google's Gemini agent, Anthropic's evaluation incidents and an Ollama-hunting botnet.·7 min readThe Week in AI · No. 2The Week in AI #2: Sonnet 5.5, OpenAI DevDay and a gated Gemini 4September 28 – October 4, 2026: two $2/$10 workhorse models, OpenAI's always-on dots, Google's cyber-first Gemini 4 Argon, and Copilot learns to use your desktop.·6 min readThe Week in AI · No. 1The Week in AI #1: Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Grok 4.7 land within 48 hoursSeptember 21–27, 2026: three new coding-focused frontier models, Cursor's deploy-watching bots, and a sandbox for GitHub Copilot's desktop app.·4 min read