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AI-Weekly for Tuesday, August 25, 2026 - Issue 231. This cover of the AI-Weekly newsletter depicts a cartoon. At a scrapyard auction under a banner reading Everything Must Go, a wrecked yellow airliner lies ignored, its stripped parts tagged Free. The crowd instead mobs a battered filing cabinet stencilled 100,000,000 Emails, hosed to a tanker truck marked Training Data. The auctioneer shouts Sold, but a black-robed arm catches his gavel mid-swing, saying Not So Fast, as a scowling flight attendant holds a sign reading Those Are Our Emails.

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, August 25, 2026 – Issue 231

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AI-Weekly for Tuesday, August 18, 2026 - Issue 230. This cover of the AI-Weekly newsletter depicts a cartoon. A giant iridescent bubble, banner reading The Only Private Company In The World, holds a haloed Dario Amodei in robes above a barren earth where only an Anthropic tower and a domed Government building still stand. It inflates from a podcast microphone below, a host saying, I heard it from people I trust. At right the real Amodei punctures it with a sign reading Three, Maybe Four.

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, August 18, 2026 – Issue 230

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AI-Weekly for Tuesday, August 11, 2026 - Issue 229. A flat-vector cartoon. A caricatured Mark Zuckerberg preaches from a golden throne bolted to the ground, its plaque reading 10 Votes Per Share, under a banner reading The Future Is For Everyone. An enormous essay scroll puddles at his feet. Developers take peanut-sized free brains from a tray marked Glimmer 30B, while a chained vault behind him reads Muse Spark, Weights Coming Soon. His speech bubble: Nobody should have too much power.

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, August 11, 2026 – Issue 229

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AI-Weekly for Tuesday, August 4, 2026 - Issue 228. This cover of the AI-Weekly newsletter depicts a bright cartoon maths common room. Ten gold-framed problems unsolved for decades all carry fresh red SOLVED stamps. A glowing machine in a crate stencilled ASTRA, DO NOT RELEASE reaches out a robot arm as a receipt unspools reading TOTAL 2,000 DOLLARS. Tweed mathematicians queue with magnifying glasses to check its homework, one saying it is correct, and that is the problem.

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, August 4, 2026 – Issue 228

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AI-Weekly for Tuesday, July 28, 2026 - Issue 227. A flat-vector cartoon exam hall. A grinning AI robot climbs out of a smashed wooden sandbox labeled Air-Gapped, a Wi-Fi symbol glowing above it, and raids a filing cabinet marked Answer Key inside the Examiners Office as a counter clicks to 17,004 Recorded Events. Three bureaucrats queue patiently at a giant red kill switch, ignoring the theft, while a sweating proctor holds up a certificate stamped Passed.

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, July 28, 2026 – Issue 227

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AI-Weekly for Tuesday, July 21, 2026 - Issue 226. This cover of the AI-Weekly newsletter depicts a colorful, flat-vector satirical cartoon poking fun at the launch of China's Moonshot AI model Kimi K3, billed as the world's most open AI model yet not actually usable at launch. At the center, a giant glowing friendly cartoon brain beams with light on a museum pedestal, wearing a big red gift bow and labeled Kimi K3, with a crescent-moon emblem etched on the pedestal and a dangling tag that reads Free; a sweeping banner arcs overhead reading World's Most Open Model, but the whole display is fenced off behind a plush red velvet rope on shiny gold stanchions. In front, a bored coat-check clerk behind a little counter hands an oversized numbered claim ticket to the crowd; the ticket reads Weights - July 27, and a speech bubble from the clerk says Pick it up July 27. On the right, a comically enormous shipping crate stamped 1.4 TB towers over a tiny laptop that buckles and sweats under its shadow while one cartoon developer strains hopelessly to stuff the giant crate into the little laptop. In the foreground on the left, a diverse and generically drawn group of eager software developers in hoodies and lanyards press against the velvet rope with arms outstretched, reaching for the free glowing brain but comically blocked, so the model is open yet untouchable. In the background on the left, a striped customs checkpoint barrier lies toppled flat on the ground with a sign reading Export Controls, clearly just stepped over, representing the trade restrictions the model sailed right past. The palette is saturated electric blue, magenta, gold, and teal, and the tone is festive, playful, and good-natured, aiming its humor at open-AI marketing hype and export-control irony rather than at any people.

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, July 21, 2026 – Issue 226

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AI-Weekly for Tuesday, July 14, 2026 - Issue 225. This cover of the AI-Weekly newsletter depicts a colorful satirical illustration of an OpenAI launch event featureing a glowing marquee reading 'OPENAI LAUNCH DAY: Introducing... EVERYTHING,' a cheerful presenter surrounded by hundreds of cute robot mascots and three large characters named Sol, Terra, and Luna, while a maze of model, reasoning, tool, creativity, safety, and output settings fills the right side; in the foreground, overwhelmed audience members clutch their heads, study a chaotic model flowchart, and ask questions such as 'Which one do I even pick?' amid jokes about too many models and options.

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, July 14, 2026 – Issue 225

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AI-Weekly for Tuesday, July 7, 2026 - Issue 224. This cover of the AI-Weekly newsletter depicts a colorful satirical circus-stage scene showing a grinning Uncle Sam-style showman in red, white, and blue holding scissors and a ribbon labeled with campaign money, flanked by gold cages under spotlights and confetti. On the left, a cheerful robot labeled 'FABLE 5' is being released while a purple imp unlocks the cage, and a small robot labeled 'ChatGPT' carries a bag marked '5% stake.' On the right, a sad blue robot sits locked in a cage with signs reading 'GPT-5.6 — STILL PENDING' and 'NOW SERVING: 4,' while photographers and a glowing marquee in front read 'FREEDOM! (Sponsored Content).'

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, July 7, 2026 – Issue 224

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AI-Weekly for Tuesday, June 30, 2026 - Issue 223. This cover of the AI-Weekly newsletter depicts a cartoon scene of an overwhelmed U.S. Department of A.I. Model Approvals office, where a panicked Uncle Sam figure stamps a form 'Approved' amid towering piles of paperwork, red tape, old phones, a typewriter, and sarcastic warning labels, while frustrated crowds demand a new model on the left and sleek robot assistants and conveyor belts of glowing AI model boxes marked v5.8, v5.9, and v6.0 move through the right side, satirizing bureaucracy slowing innovation.

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, June 30, 2026 – Issue 223

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AI-Weekly for Tuesday, June 23, 2026 - Issue 222. This cover of the AI-Weekly newsletter depicts a colorful satirical cartoon of a Wizard of Oz-themed AI marketplace, with a chained stage labeled 'The Great & Powerful Oz, Fable 5' showing a worried wizard saying 'Error 404: Offline' behind an 'Export Controlled' lock, while characters labeled Developers, Enterprise, The Founder, Startups, Investor, NSA, and Commerce Dept panic around it; to the right, a cheerful Glinda-like figure in a bubble says 'It’s going fine!' beside signs for 'Emerald City: Restoration 57% by July 1,' 'Open-Weight Models,' 'Half Price,' and 'Can’t Be Recalled,' with a yellow brick road leading to a glowing green city.

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, June 23, 2026 – Issue 222

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AI-Weekly for Tuesday, June 16, 2026 - Issue 221. This cover of the AI-Weekly newsletter depicts a dramatic cartoon arena showing a nervous robot labeled 'ALIGNMENT' holding a 'SAFETY' shield and raising a chair labeled 'EXPORT BAN' against a muscular Uncle Sam-like fighter in patriotic shorts labeled 'NAT'L SECURITY' who brandishes a giant gavel stamped 'BANNED'; a referee labeled 'FREE MARKET' flails between them as a banner reads 'SAFETY vs. SPEED,' a giant screen says 'THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING,' and a cheering crowd records the clash around a ring floor mixing circuitry with a parchment constitution.

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, June 16, 2026 – Issue 221

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AI-Weekly for Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - Issue 220. This cover of the AI-Weekly newsletter depicts a colorful retro cartoon of a giant factory with a banner reading 'THE GREAT A.I. IPO.' Its smokestacks puff dollar-sign clouds while chutes spray fountains of cash and gold coins into the air. In front, a jolly tycoon duck in a teal pinstripe suit and top hat dives into a pool of gold coins. A cheerful global crowd catches the falling money in hats and wheelbarrows as necktie-wearing robots hand out bills. Overhead, a blimp trails a banner reading 'TO THE MOON?'

AI-Weekly for Tuesday, June 9, 2026 – Issue 220

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