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The issues

• AI news2026-08

  2026-08·August 19, 2026

  August 2026

  Grok 4.6, frontier-scale open weights from Qwen, security models with lowered refusals, and the EU AI Act gets concrete.
• AI news2026-07

  2026-07·July 31, 2026

  July 2026

  Opus 5 sets the bar, OpenAI cuts prices, MCP goes stateless, and DeepSeek puts V4-Flash under MIT.
• AI news2026-06

  2026-06·June 30, 2026

  June 2026

  Fable 5 ships, vanishes under the first export control on model weights, and returns. Plus Sonnet 5, Nemotron 3, and the stateless MCP SDKs.
• AI news2026-05

  2026-05·May 31, 2026

  May 2026

  Opus 4.8 orchestrates parallel subagents, Google I/O delivers Gemini 3.5 Flash and WebMCP, MCP announces its stateless rewrite, and Codex moves to phone and browser.
• AI news2026-04

  2026-04·April 30, 2026

  April 2026

  Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 a week apart, Cursor 3.0 makes parallel agents the interface, DeepSeek-V4 brings 1M context as open weights, and Anthropic dissects its own regression.
• AI news2026-03

  2026-03·March 31, 2026

  March 2026

  GPT-5.4 with computer use, Claude drives the desktop, auto mode instead of permission prompts, and Mistral Small 4 under Apache 2.0.
• AI news2026-02

  2026-02·February 28, 2026

  February 2026

  Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex ship the same day, Sonnet 4.6 becomes the new workhorse, Qwen3.5 adds open weights, and the Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply chain risk.
• AI news2026-01

  2026-01·January 31, 2026

  January 2026

  MCP gets interactive apps, OpenAI's Responses shape becomes an open spec, Kimi K2.5 brings trillion-scale open weights, and Claude Code starts the 2.1 line.