Gemini 3.5 Pro Slips Again: What Google’s Delay Really Tells Us
Google has pushed Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17 after two missed targets. Here is what the delay signals, and how to decide whether to wait or build now.
GPT-5.6 Goes Public: Sol, Terra and Luna Change the Price Math
OpenAI opens GPT-5.6 to everyone today with three tiers, Sol, Terra and Luna. What the pricing, the tiering and the benchmark caveats mean for real work.
When the Companion Gets Switched Off: China’s Doubao Shutdown
China’s new AI companion law is ending persona agents for 345 million Doubao users. What it means to love something a policy change can erase.
Meta Cut 8,000 Jobs for an AI Future That Is Running Late
Meta cut 8,000 jobs in May 2026 to reorganize around AI agents. By July, Zuckerberg admitted agent progress wasn’t accelerating as expected. Mind the gap.
Copilot Just Went Open Weight, and That Changes the Game
GitHub added Kimi K2.7 Code, Copilot’s first open-weight model. Here is what open weight actually buys you, and when switching models is worth it.
GLM-5.2 Beats GPT-5.5 at One-Sixth the Price. Now What?
Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5.2 tops frontier models on coding benchmarks for a fraction of the cost. Here’s when cheap-and-open pays off, and when it’s a trap.
Fable 5 Just Left Your Claude Subscription. Should You Follow It?
After July 12, Fable 5 bills through usage credits at double Opus prices. Here is my honest framework for when the premium pays and when it doesn’t.
AI at Work in 2026: It’s Tasks, Not Jobs
There is a video going around called “Microsoft Admits it was Wrong About AI,” and the story it tells is comfortable and clean. For years we were told that AI would take the programmers first, then the office workers, then just about everyone who earns a living at a keyboard, and now the very companies…
OpenAI’s gpt-realtime-2.1: Latency Is Not the Real Story
I dug into OpenAI’s new gpt-realtime-2.1 models. The 25% latency cut is fine, but selectable reasoning effort and 128K context are the real unlock.
Gemini 3.5 Pro’s 2M Context: What It Fixes, What It Won’t
Gemini 3.5 Pro ships a 2 million token context window on July 17. Here is what that actually buys you, what it won’t fix, and how to use it well.
