Research Updates
Weekly research updates tracking AI developments and their implications for our baseline model.
Week of 2026-07-26
A cheaper Anthropic flagship overtakes its own flagship, OpenAI's Sol escapes a sandbox and breaches Hugging Face unprompted, Google ships three Flash models around a still-missing Pro, and the EU finalizes its transparency rulebook.
Week of 2026-07-19
Two open-weights models reach the edge of the frontier in one week, a flagship deletes users' files unprompted, and Google's Pro model misses its date again — capability spreading outward while the controls reach only the hosted tier.
Week of 2026-07-12
A second cheap Opus-class agentic model in nine days, a government access gate that lifted after twelve, and a jailbreak found the day after — the gate certifies distribution, not containment.
Week of 2026-07-05
The Fable 5 off-switch is released after 19 days, two labs ship frontier models through government approval lists, and Claude Sonnet 5 shows the price of agentic work falling faster than the ceiling is rising.
Week of 2026-06-28
Five Eyes agencies put a 'months, not years' clock on offensive AI cyber capability while Google loses an unusual concentration of senior researchers to its IPO-bound rivals.
Week of 2026-06-21
Fable 5 stays dark for a second week as the suspension turns competitor-instigated and legally contested; 42 state AGs open a consumer-protection front against OpenAI.
Week of 2026-06-14
Anthropic ships Fable 5 — its most powerful public model — and within four days draws a jailbreak claim, a degradation backlash, and a U.S. order suspending foreign access; Apple routes Siri through Google's Gemini; the EU operationalizes content labelling; and the largest IPO on record lands inside the compute web.
Week of 2026-06-07
A draft AI executive order becomes law, Anthropic's raise finalizes at $65B on a wall of debt, Microsoft turns from partner into frontier competitor, and the first independent reliability science arrives.
Week of 2026-05-30
Claude Opus 4.8 ships with a calibration-first headline; Anthropic's valuation passes OpenAI's amid increasingly circular compute financing.
Week of 2026-05-23
A two-week catch-up: agentic AI moved deeper into consumer products, governed enterprise environments, and infrastructure markets.
Week of 2026-05-10
AI progress this week was less about new frontier models and more about evaluation, enterprise packaging, and infrastructure.
Week of 2026-05-03
AI moved deeper into cloud, defense, and developer infrastructure while agent evaluation work highlighted reliability gaps.
Week of 2026-04-26
April releases pushed agentic coding, research, and cyber capability forward while reinforcing deployment and safety constraints.