TAI #215: AI Is Expanding Roles Before Job Titles Change
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This was a mixed week for closed models. Claude Opus 5 ranked first on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index with 61 at max effort, one …
TAI #214: Kimi K3 Brings Open Weight Closer to the Frontier
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie After a wave of strong new closed models last week, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is the closest a model headed for open release has …
TAI #213: A Wave of New Frontier Competitors and the Multi-Agent Breakout
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Towards AI Deployment Some company news and a quick ask before this week’s stories! Since 2019, we’ve helped developers transition into AI engineering and trained enterprises to build with AI. Over those …
TAI #209: Claude Fable 5 Arrived, Then the US Government Took It Offline
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on June 9. Two days later, it apologized for and reversed a controversial safeguard that could degrade the model …
TAI #207: Claude Opus 4.8 Is Better, but Dynamic Workflows Are the Bigger Story
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, six weeks after Opus 4.7. It landed alongside two unusually large company announcements: Anthropic raised $65 …
LAI #127: The Infrastructure Layer of AI Is Becoming the Product
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, we’re looking at the shift from “AI demos” to real systems: agents that need reliable execution, enterprises building durable AI infrastructure, and architectures that survive production …
TAI #202: GPT-5.5 Moves Codex Into Real Work
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23. In the same week, they launched workspace agents in ChatGPT and released Privacy Filter for PII redaction; Google …
TAI #200: Anthropic’s Mythos Capability Step Change and Gated Release
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, Anthropic unveiled a new flagship-class model, Claude Mythos Preview. It limited access to the model to “Project Glasswing”, a tightly gated cyber-defense …
LAI #122: Word Embeddings Started in 1948, Not With Word2Vec
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, we’re covering what happens when AI labs sit across the table from governments, why most AI-generated writing still sounds the same (and how to fix it), …
TAI #199: Gemma 4 Brings a Credible US Open-Weight Contender Back to the Table
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, and I think this is the most consequential US open-weight release in quite a while. China has …
LAI #121: The single-agent sweet spot nobody wants to admit
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! Your next AI system is probably too complicated, and you haven’t even built it yet. This week, we co-published a piece with Paul Iusztin that gives you a …
TAI #198: Real-Time Speech AI Gets Serious: Google and OpenAI Race to Own the Voice Layer
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie Real-time speech AI has been progressing quietly for the past year, but the past few weeks have delivered enough to warrant a dedicated look. …
TAI #195: GPT-5.4 and the Arrival of AI Self-Improvement?
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie Two stories dominated this week that look unrelated but tell the same story. On Wednesday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4, its most work-oriented frontier model to …
TAI #194: AI Goes Macro; Job Loss Fears, Military Usage, OpenAI $110B Raise
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week brought a series of developments that signal AI is quickly becoming more than just a technology story: AI’s revenue, its politics, and …
LAI #115: The Hidden Cost of “Agent-First” Thinking
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! AI is getting embedded into real workflows: repos, data platforms, enterprise search, and production infrastructure. And as that happens, a pattern is showing up everywhere: the biggest failures …
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