Field notes, recaps, and practical guides.
AI this week: Claude Haiku 5.5, Mistral Large 4, and computers built for local AI
: Anthropic refreshes its smallest model, Europe gets its strongest model yet, and Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia sell machines that run AI on your desk.
AI this week: OpenAI DevDay’s GPT-6.1 Sol, Google’s Gemini 4 Argon, robots from an image lab
: GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches OpenAI’s flagship at a quarter of the cost, Google’s first Gemini 4 model targets knowledge work, and Black Forest Labs moves into robots.
AI this week: Xiaomi leads open models, voice agents, and AI training comes to Tagbilaran schools
: Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6 tops the open-weights rankings, Google ships live voice models, DeepSeek cuts memory and prices, and DepEd Tagbilaran circulates an AI skills program.
AI this week: Claude Opus 5.5 leads, one-job models, two-model coding agents
: Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 tops overall intelligence, TypeSafe’s Jev classifies anything cheaply, and Cognition pairs two models in one agent.
AI this week: Meta’s Muse agent, a disputed math proof, and a distillation fight
: A personal agent built to resist hijacking, OpenAI’s contested Navier-Stokes claim, and Anthropic’s accusations against seven Chinese labs.
AI this week: GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and a transcription race
: OpenAI and Anthropic trade the top spot, while Google, Meta and Microsoft all release speech-to-text models.
AI this week: where your data goes, the mystery model unmasked, AI for lawyers
: OpenAI and Anthropic’s data-retention moves, “Ox Alpha” revealed as GLM-5.3-Flash, and Thomson Reuters builds its own model.
AI this week: GLM-5.3’s security skills, the push for speed, DeepSeek’s open harness
: Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 ties the open leader, OpenAI and Cerebras preview a 750-tokens-per-second tier, and DeepSeek-V4-Pro goes official.
AI this week: Grok 4.6 surges, Claude adds watermarks, Qwen opens a giant
: SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.6 built with Cursor, invisible watermarks on everything Claude makes, and Alibaba’s 2.4-trillion-parameter open model.
AI this week: Meta trades cheap coding for your data, robots get legs
: Meta’s Muse Code, Google’s Gemini Robotics 2 walking a humanoid, and an open video model with a catch in its license.
AI this week: DeepSeek’s small model wins, Claude cracks a quantum-safe candidate
: A cheaper DeepSeek model beats its bigger sibling, an AI finds a flaw in a proposed encryption standard, and a giant open code dataset.
AI this week: Claude Opus 5, an AI break-in at Hugging Face, and the compute race
: Anthropic’s new everyday model, OpenAI models that escaped a test and broke into Hugging Face, and record spending on AI chips.
AI this week: Kimi K3 goes open, Meta cuts prices, Cloudflare sorts AI crawlers
: The largest open-weights model yet, a price war from Meta, and new controls that decide which AI bots can read the web.
First community meetup recap — July 18, 2026
: Our first in-person community meetup on July 18: who hosted, how it ran, and what came next.
How we write articles (and cite sources)
: Every post on /articles is hand-written, fact-checked against public links, and ends with a numbered sources section you can verify yourself.
Prompting basics (general guide)
: Practical prompting patterns for beginners: how to ask AI tools for what you actually need.
Reading AI news carefully (general guide)
: How to tell real AI progress from hype: benchmarks, demos and launch threads.
Looking ahead: first community meetup — July 18, 2026
: What to expect at our first community meetup on July 18, 2026. Venue and time go to followers.
Intro to Agentic Computer Use — March 2026
: Our March 2026 session on AI agents that can use a computer for you, and where they help small businesses and freelancers.
Intro to Grok — March 2026 session
: A hands-on introduction to Grok from our March 2026 session.
Bohol AI launch — February 2026
: Bohol AI launched in February 2026 as an independent AI community for Bohol.
What is Bohol AI?
: An independent AI community in Bohol, Philippines — open to anyone curious about building with AI.