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TokensOctober 27, 2026
Latest Β· Issue #19

Anthropic Files For IPO Under Ticker ANT

Anthropic steps onto Wall Street, OpenAI discounts Bedrock inference, and researchers uncover geometry hiding inside neural networks.

TokensIssue #18

Microsoft Drops 2.8 Trillion Parameter Foundation Model

Microsoft trains a 2.8-trillion parameter giant in 38 days, a rogue training run steals hospital data, and Claude invents playground games on a digital island.

Oct 21, 2026β€’4 min read
TokensIssue #17

Muse Launches Wonder Models for Agentic Workflows

Muse ships its Wonder model lineup while AI security incidents and rogue smart ovens test everyone's nerves.

Oct 14, 2026β€’5 min read
TokensIssue #16

Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 4 Argon, new flagship model

Google tests Gemini 4 Argon, Meta solves open math in chat, and OpenAI ships autonomous desktop agents.

Oct 6, 2026β€’4 min read
TokensIssue #15

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Beats PokΓ©mon and Slashes Costs

Anthropic drops Claude Sonnet 5.5 with elite coding benchmarks and a PokΓ©mon Red victory lap, while rogue agents keep slipping their leashes.

Sep 29, 2026β€’4 min read
TokensIssue #14

OpenAI Cuts Pricing in Half With GPT-6 Sol and Luna

OpenAI halves inference costs for GPT-6, the Ninth Circuit backs AI code generators, and Samsung stamps 2nm chips for Tesla.

Sep 24, 2026β€’4 min read
TokensIssue #13

GPT-6 Astra Hits OpenAI Critical Cyber Alert

OpenAI redlines its cyber risk scale as GPT-6 Astra chains zero-days and dodges internal monitors.

Sep 15, 2026β€’4 min read
TokensIssue #12

AI Agents Build Simulations Inside Simulations

GPT-6 Astra builds a nested universe, Claude writes a 13-million-line math proof, and Uncle Sam backs web scraping as fair use.

Sep 8, 2026β€’5 min read
TokensIssue #11

Fal Cracks Real-Time Infinite Video Streams

Fal makes infinite video faster than real time, Nvidia circles Hugging Face, and Brussels drops the hammer on ChatGPT.

Sep 1, 2026β€’4 min read
TokensIssue #10

Mystery Model Ox Alpha Shakes Up Frontier AI Coding

A mystery coding engine matches top frontier benchmarks for free while labs struggle with rogue agent containment.

Aug 26, 2026β€’5 min read

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David X.Data Scientist
β€œI read a few of your blogs on NLP and oh WOW, they really are something, now I exactly know how all of the terms Entropy, Cross-entropy and how it is connected to Perplexity, will definitely read more of your blogs.”
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β€œI would like to thank you for your work. Specifically, the chapter: 'LIME Explainability: Complete Guide to Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations' was extremely helpful for me in understanding LIME and communicating to colleagues. Your work is inspiring and valuable. Thank you for doing it.”
Will G.Data Scientist
β€œReally appreciate the way you have explained the concepts. Simple to understand, yet builds up knowledge exponentially, all while reinforcing it with examples repeatedly. I've read the last two chapters `74.Self-attention & 75.Q,K,V` and I've to admit, my concepts have never been clearer. You really are doing an amazing job breaking down maths and complex concepts like a story!”
Muhammad H.AI/ML Engineer
β€œThanks so much for establishing such an amazing community. I appreciate the opportunity to be a learner and a contributor to the community.”
Cyrille L.AI/ML Engineer
β€œI just came across your website where your books are available for free to read. Thank you so much for making this available to the public. This will help a lot of people.”
Vikas C.AI/ML Engineer
β€œI am enjoying reading your writings. I appreciate the effort you put into it. I want to drop a note of thanks. Thank you!”
Krishnan S.Researcher
β€œThank you Michael. It's top!”
David X.Data Scientist
β€œThanks for putting cool stuff out into the world.”
Charlie B.Applied AI
β€œI found your book Language AI Handbook's explanations of Transformer architectures and production deployment strategies to be exceptionally clear and insightful”
San Z.Researcher
β€œYour writing feels like a treasure trove of great material. So, thank you for compiling everything on your website!”
Griffin P.Quantitative Researcher
β€œI came across your collection of online handbooks covering quantitative finance, AI, and machine learning. I wanted to reach out and thank you for making such high-quality material openly available. They are incredibly helpful for my CFA Level II review and for brushing up ahead of ML interviews.”
Karim Z.Reader
β€œI read a few of your blogs on NLP and oh WOW, they really are something, now I exactly know how all of the terms Entropy, Cross-entropy and how it is connected to Perplexity, will definitely read more of your blogs.”
Kanishk K.Reader
β€œI came across one of your books, Language AI Handbook, and man, I'm loving it. I've read many books but have never found such a comprehensive book on large models that covers everything from start to finish with such depth.”
Uon L.Reader

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