The Weekly AI Report

One email a week on what actually happened in AI.

Model releases, tools worth trying, and what it means if you build with it. Written by someone who ships with these tools every day, not someone recycling headlines. Free.

Past issues

• September 1, 2026 A newsletter got approved and never sent. Here's how that's not possible anymore.
• August 25, 2026 A page can look fine and still be broken. Here's the checklist that catches it.
• August 10, 2026 Two dead buttons. Nothing crashed, so nothing told me.
• August 3, 2026 My rate limiter had been silently broken. Three times.
• July 27, 2026 Claude Opus 5 lands at half the price, Google teases Gemini 4, and Kimi K3 opens its weights
• July 20, 2026 DeepSeek ships a 1.6T open model, China builds its own AI bloc, and Google reportedly hits reset
• July 13, 2026 GPT-5.6 goes public, Tencent open-sources a monster, and coding models get cheap
• July 6, 2026 Claude's back everywhere, Washington wants a seat, and a food delivery app drops a free model