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00 — THE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

The Week in AI

August 21, 2026

  1. Builders
    1Grok Bot won back customers who had left, and paid for itselfX · Liam · 35M views
  2. Tools & Launches
    2Cursor launched Origin, its own place to store codeX · Cursor · 14M views
  3. Builders
    3Andrew Ng published a map of the AI skills worth learningX · Andrew Ng · 5.4M views
  4. Tools & Launches
    4ChatGPT can now remember what you do on your computerX · OpenAI · 4M views
  5. Tools & Launches
    5Claude Academy is now open, with free courses on AI basics and how to use ClaudeX · Claude · 2.8M views

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The Week in AI

August 14, 2026

  1. Tools & Launches
    1Introducing Grok Bot, now in early betaX · Grok Bot · 32M views
  2. Tools & Launches
    2Introducing GLM-5.3: Built to Code. Ready for Cyber Defense.X · Z.ai · 4.4M views
  3. Tools & Launches
    3Introducing Grok 4.6Web · x.ai · 629 HN points
  4. Tools & Launches
    4Meta released Muse Glimmer: an open-weight model built for always-on local agentsX · Meta for Developers · 111K views
  5. Tools & Launches
    5Alibaba released open weights for the Qwen3.8-27BX · 2.5M views

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The Week in AI

August 7, 2026

  1. Business
    1Major Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departsWeb · Sundar Pichai · 847 HN points
  2. Business
    2Bending Spoons acquires Airtable for $1.285BX · Federico Simionato · 4.9M views
  3. Business
    3The Claude agents managed a $50,000 portfolio that outperformed the S&P 500 by 6.8%X · The Claude Portfolio · 2.8M views
  4. Tools & Launches
    4Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic InternetX · Cloudflare · 2.7M views
  5. Tools & Launches
    5NVIDIA launched Alpamayo 2 Super, an advanced open reasoning model designed for autonomous vehiclesX · Jensen Huang · 1.9M views

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