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Weekly digests on frontier models, routing, cyber risk, and coding agents — original synthesis with sources. Not financial or legal advice.

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  Weekly Digest

  AI Weekly: Gate week — Astra pause, Mythos scans, Sol $4/$20

  Cryptonium · August 22, 2026 · 8 min read

  Plain-language take on six 17–22 August 2026 stories: OpenAI pausing frontier RL around Astra, Claude’s wet-lab protein binders, computer-use GA, Mythos 5 as a scanner not a cha…

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  AI Weekly: Workhorse week — Gemini 3.7 Flash, Ultrafast, Grok 4.6

  Cryptonium · August 16, 2026 · 8 min read

  Plain-language take on six mid-August 2026 stories: Gemini 3.7 Flash’s coding lift and intro price, OpenAI’s Ultrafast preview, Grok 4.6 on the AA table, Claude text watermarks,…

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  Weekly Digest

  AI Weekly: Lab limits — AISI, Muse Code, incidents

  Cryptonium · August 10, 2026 · 8 min read

  Plain-language take on six early-August 2026 stories: AISI’s 122-run cyber eval, Meta’s Muse Code beta, a next-day lab report, OpenAI’s Hugging Face timeline, Astra, and hedged…

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  AI Weekly: YC QM, Vids Avatars, Coding-Tool Consolidation, Mem0, Azure $100B, ARC Harness Tricks, Superlogical, DeepSWE, MCP Stateless, Buzz BYOH, Open Weights, and X Growth Radar

  Cryptonium · August 1, 2026 · 12 min read

  An explanatory look at twelve late-July 2026 AI stories: YC's open-source QM multiplayer harness, Google Vids Gemini Omni and personal avatars, a fact-checked coding-tool consol…

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  AI Weekly: Kimi K3 Allegations, Model Routers, a Cyber Eval Incident, Claude's iOS Simulator, and Grok's Odyssey

  Cryptonium · July 23, 2026 · 15 min read

  An explanatory look at six July 2026 AI stories: White House distillation claims around Kimi K3, Cursor's Router, Fireworks' K3-vs-Fable routing study, the OpenAI–Hugging Face c…