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ThuFeb 19, 2026
Issue #6

Meta Smart Watch; Mistral buys Koyeb; AI agents write hit pieces

AI pentesting agents, RAG for docs, and why AI writing is boring. Plus: measuring data center sustainability.

28 min14 stories
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WedFeb 18, 2026
Issue #5

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is here; Apple's AI Wearables

1M-token Sonnet 4.6, Claude Code to Figma, and an evals flywheel that starts with 20 traces.

24 min12 stories
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TueFeb 17, 2026
Issue #4

OpenAI Hires OpenClaw Creator and ASR for Edge

Western Digital reports hard drive sell-outs. Mistral drops a CLI coding agent. Plus, why AGI isn't imminent.

20 min10 stories
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MonFeb 16, 2026
Issue #3

Offline AI on your phone, distillation attacks, and Claude in raids

Generative AI shifts focus to cognitive debt. Publishers restrict AI scraping. Fast LLM inference tricks.

16 min8 stories
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SunFeb 15, 2026
Issue #2

Vector DBs Surge, Disney vs. ByteDance AI Spat

Plus: Intel's mobile GPU secrets, AI spending caution, and a new way to structure docs.

26 min13 stories
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FriJan 16, 2026
Issue #1

Qwen3-Omni's multimodal AI, production agent patterns

Agent patterns that survive prod: tool search, implicit eval loops, structured output hardening

22 min11 stories
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