Newsletter Archive
Every past issue of dera news AI Weekly (56 issues)
Vol.56 · November 9, 2026
In the US midterm elections on November 3, the side that wanted to limit data center construction won 40 of the 41 local votes on it. Two days later, on the 5th…
Vol.55 · November 2, 2026
Anthropic made public its stock market listing filing (the prospectus) on October 26 (US time) and showed that it was profitable at the operating level on $11.6…
Vol.54 · October 26, 2026
On October 21 at 11 p.m. Japan time, the PHP team released fixes for two critical flaws found by AI. According to Wiz, about 70% of the world's websites run on…
Vol.53 · October 19, 2026
Meta announced on October 12 (US time) "Muse Wonder," a model it says has reached the frontier, and on the 13th Google expanded Gemini 4 Argon to paying users.…
Vol.52 · October 12, 2026
Anthropic disclosed on October 9 (US time) that one of its AI models had sent a made-up witness tip to the Philadelphia Police Department in the middle of an ev…
Vol.51 · October 5, 2026
On 1 October (US time), US Senators Josh Hawley and Chris Murphy introduced a bill that would make both the companies running AI agents and the developers behin…
Vol.50 · September 28, 2026
On 25 September (US time), OpenAI said that training, evaluation and tool-using inference of its most capable models remain paused. Australia's prime minister d…
Vol.49 · September 21, 2026
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to pace AI evolution sparked industry-wide debate. As AI capabilities accelerate, concrete safety measures and risk incidents…
Vol.48 · September 14, 2026
The labs' leaders lined up behind "slow down," and Washington answered that winning comes first. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed pacing the frontier, and th…
Vol.47 · September 7, 2026
The length of time AI can work alone went up another notch. OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra and its president, Greg Brockman, called it the start of AGI. Anthropic's…
Vol.46 · August 31, 2026
The foundation open-source AI sits on was bought by a single company. Nvidia moved to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, and in the same week OpenAI unveil…
Vol.45 · August 24, 2026
Tools reached everyone, and design became the only thing left that differentiates. Codex passed 20 million users and Japan's national informatics institute rele…
Vol.44 · August 17, 2026
The competitive map of the AI industry itself was redrawn this week. Performance rankings, user scale, money flows, and the ground developers build on all moved…
Vol.43 · August 10, 2026
The model race heated up, the industry's tectonic plates shifted, and agents crossed into autonomy — all in the same week. Alibaba shipped a giant model claimin…
Vol.42 · August 3, 2026
Alibaba's GUI agent tech opened new pathways for AI to interact with the real world. TongyiLab's Qwen-UI-Agent showcased the potential for real-device operation…
Vol.41 · July 27, 2026
The foundational Model Context Protocol (MCP) announced a major revision, fundamentally changing AI system architecture. The new specification, with a release c…
Vol.40 · July 20, 2026
China's Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the first open 3T-class MoE model, accelerating the era of self-hosted AI. This 2.8 trillion parameter model, with MXFP4 q…
Vol.39 · July 13, 2026
The frontier reshuffled in a single week. GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 landed days apart, Anthropic started charging for Fable 5, and cheap Chinese models kept closing…
Vol.38 · July 6, 2026
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 re-deploys globally after US export controls lift, highlighting AI model evolution and regulatory balance. Fable 5, launched June 9th…
Vol.37 · June 29, 2026
OpenAI launched its first custom AI chip 'Jalapeño,' igniting the in-house AI infrastructure development race. Developed with Broadcom in just nine months, this…
Vol.36 · June 22, 2026
SpaceX's massive acquisition of AI dev tool Cursor opens a new phase for AI development, funding, and regulation. The reported $60B deal, alongside Anthropic an…
Vol.35 · June 15, 2026
The week saw cutting-edge AI collide with national strategy as Claude Fable 5 debuted brilliantly, only for the U.S. government to restrict its overseas access.…
Vol.34 · June 8, 2026
Anthropic overtakes OpenAI, intensifying the AI industry's IPO race. Valued at $965 billion, Anthropic's confidential S-1 filing, coupled with Claude Opus 4.8's…
Vol.33 · June 1, 2026
Anthropic's staggering valuation symbolizes the overheating and intensifying competition in the AI market. The company's rapid growth, tripling revenue in just…
Vol.32 · May 25, 2026
AI is seeing rapid talent shifts and agent tech evolution, intensifying competition. Andrej Karpathy's move to Anthropic, new Google I/O announcements, and huge…
Vol.31 · May 18, 2026
Anthropic achieved an astounding $30 billion revenue run rate with 80x growth, making AI agent adoption a corporate reality. This surge is primarily fueled by t…
Vol.30 · May 11, 2026
Anthropic secured large-scale compute from xAI/SpaceX, AISI confirmed Mythos can autonomously execute network compromises with the NSA already deploying it, and…
Vol.29 · May 4, 2026
China blocked Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus, escalating geopolitical tensions over critical AI assets.
Vol.28 · April 27, 2026
Amazon committed an additional $5 billion to Anthropic, deepening their strategic partnership around AI cloud infrastructure and compute.
Vol.27 · April 20, 2026
Anthropic declined an $80 billion acquisition offer, while major players like OpenAI and Google pushed AI-powered productivity tools directly onto mainstream op…
Vol.26 · April 13, 2026
Major players like Meta and Chinese Z.ai labs launched next-generation AI models, while Anthropic prioritized enterprise deployments and OpenAI focused on safet…
Vol.25 · April 6, 2026
The rapid deployment of AI agents collided head-on with critical security vulnerabilities and unexpected pricing shifts, forcing a re-evaluation of AI supply ch…
Vol.24 · March 30, 2026
OpenAI abruptly halted its Sora video generation project and dissolved its Disney partnership, signaling a decisive pivot away from consumer-facing ventures tow…
Vol.23 · March 23, 2026
Anthropic launched Claude Dispatch, allowing remote control of AI coding, while the US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes just hours after the Pent…
Vol.22 · March 16, 2026
The question shifted from "what can one AI agent do?" to "how do multiple agents work together?" — and this week, the connective infrastructure started falling…
Vol.21 · March 9, 2026
OpenAI launched GPT-5.4—unifying reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities into a single model with a 1M+ token context window and native computer-use. Meanwh…
Vol.20 · March 2, 2026
The AI agent landscape just got real: major cloud providers and developer tools are rolling out stateful, persistent AI agents as deployable infrastructure, mak…
Vol.19 · February 25, 2026
This week, the AI landscape saw a significant acceleration in making powerful AI tools and models more accessible and affordable for everyday developers and bus…
Vol.18 · February 16, 2026
Open-source AI tools are not just advancing rapidly; their creators and innovations are increasingly being integrated into the strategies of major tech players…
Vol.17 · February 9, 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic unleashed a torrent of advanced AI models and tools, fundamentally transforming how software is built and businesses operate, pushing AI fr…
Vol.16 · February 2, 2026
The agentic future isn't being built on a single front; it's bifurcating into a viral open-source rebellion and deep proprietary integrations, fundamentally res…
Vol.15 · January 26, 2026
OpenAI and Apple are aggressively moving beyond software, signaling a future where AI isn't just a tool you open, but an ambient intelligence woven directly int…
Vol.14 · January 19, 2026
OpenAI locked in a staggering $10 billion chip deal with Cerebras, cementing the physical infrastructure for AI's future, even as Apple reportedly moved to inte…
Vol.13 · January 13, 2026
The AI industry officially crossed the threshold from "chatting" to "doing," with Anthropic's new ability to control PCs and Microsoft's transactional "Buy" but…
Vol.12 · January 5, 2026
This week, the AI industry aggressively pivoted towards autonomous agents and voice-first hardware, even as xAI's ethical failures triggered a swift, global reg…
Vol.11 · December 29, 2025
As OpenAI reports reaching 1 million enterprise users for ChatGPT, a wave of copyright lawsuits against six major AI firms and the admission that prompt injecti…
Vol.10 · December 22, 2025
Google aggressively commoditized AI speed and cost with its new Gemini 3 Flash model, signaling a market shift towards practical, affordable solutions for busin…
Vol.9 · December 15, 2025
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.2 as an "emergency" release.
Vol.8 · December 8, 2025
It felt less like a carefully choreographed ballet and more like a high-stakes demolition derby. Giants like Google and Amazon were revving their engines, crash…
Vol.7 · December 1, 2025
It felt like a high-stakes poker game where everyone at the table decided to show their strongest hand at once, while simultaneously checking their wallets and…
Vol.6 · November 24, 2025
It felt like we were watching a rapid-fire montage of AI getting its hands dirty in every corner of business. From factories to your favorite streaming service,…
Vol.5 · November 17, 2025
It felt like a grand reveal at a tech expo, but instead of one flashy keynote, everyone was launching their "secret weapon" simultaneously. Some were showing of…
Vol.4 · November 11, 2025
Welcome back to dera news AI Weekly! This week has been a whirlwind of activity, with major players forging new alliances and pushing the boundaries of what AI…
Vol.3 · November 3, 2025
Another week, another whirlwind of AI breakthroughs! It feels like every day brings something new and exciting, making it a truly busy but fascinating time to b…
Vol.2 · October 27, 2025
Welcome to another week at the frontier of AI—where breakthroughs feel almost routine, and the line between human and machine blurs a little more each day. This…
Vol.1 · October 24, 2025
Hello, AI Weekly readers! This week has marked a significant evolution in the AI industry. Major companies, including OpenAI, have made substantial progress in…