2026
No. 39
21 → 27 September 2026
Latest
5 briefs · 5 min
A week when institutions answered back. France puts €80 million into AI at work, and a union objects the same day. OpenAI claims more than a hundred solved maths problems and hands the vetting to an independent group — which gets no say on the pace. a16z funds an unaccredited alternative to college. And a robot learns a task by watching a video, in a factory that assembles GPUs. Five briefs, five sources.
No. 38
14 → 20 September 2026
3 briefs · 3 min
Three unrelated announcements, and the same caution to keep in all three. Alibaba open-weights an image model — benchmarked on its own bench. AI agents recover a 1941 Enigma message — and the report itself says it replayed nothing of the historical breakthrough. And Paris enters the global top 10 of AI cities — a ranking that counts companies, not jobs. Three briefs, three sources.
n° 37
7 – 13 September 2026
7 briefs · 7 min
A French week, for once: Mistral raises three billion euros, Loft Orbital signs a billion dollars for fifty satellites that will compute in orbit, and Revolut puts through France's first agent-initiated payment. Alongside, OpenAI says it has solved a millennium problem — and the mathematics community wants to see it. Seven briefs, seven sources. This issue was completed on 27 September: briefs 6 and 7 come from sources that were not processed in time. Their original dates are shown.
n° 36
31 August – 6 September 2026
5 briefs · 5 min
Five announcements dated the same Monday, and they do not describe the same world: an electrocardiogram read in under two seconds, an interface rendered as video with no code underneath, an open Chinese model at a tenth of the price of its predecessor, a terminal agent billed by the token, and Grok arriving on the Pentagon's AI platform. Five briefs, five sources.
n° 35
24 – 30 August 2026
11 briefs · 11 min
A week where the money went to two places: data centres — a $45bn compute deal for Anthropic, two million more GPUs for AWS — and robotics, with three rounds in three days. In between, two product launches aimed at the same audience: the people who don't write code. Eleven briefs, eleven sources. This issue was completed on 11 September: briefs 8 to 11 come from sources that were not processed in time. Their original dates are shown.
n° 34
10 – 23 August 2026
6 briefs · 6 min
A harness that takes a model from 30% to 96% without changing the model, an invisible watermark required by the AI Act, a billion users for Gemini, and two nine-figure rounds on assisted coding. Six briefs, six sources. This issue covers two weeks: n° 33 went to health and space, and these ones were left on the platform — each brief carries its own date. This issue was completed on 11 September: brief 6 comes from a source that was not processed in time. Its original date is shown.
n° 33
10 – 16 August 2026
3 briefs · 3 min
A telescope that schedules itself, an earlier diagnosis, and a study reminding us that assistance does not help everyone the same way. Three briefs, three sources. No governance here — that is the long-form aisle.
Ten mathematics problems left open for decades, a coding ranking where four Chinese labs take four of the top eight places, a coding agent at Meta, and sixteen AI-written viruses waking up in culture dishes. Five briefs, five sources.