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Send us Fan Mail Meta, OpenAI Sol, Tencent, Google SensorFM Meta, OpenAI Sol, Tencent, Google SensorFM Today’s episode follows AI becoming a set of control surfaces: product rollbacks, reasoning throttles, self-improvement workflows, inference economics, geopolitical agent ownership, and boring enterprise plumbing. Stories Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash — consumer AI safety...

Send us Fan Mail OpenAI GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol ChatGPT Work GPT-5.6 in Microsoft 365 Copilot Normal Technology: AI up the stack and enterprise lock-in Meta Muse Spark 1.1 and Model API Bun rewrite in Rust Kenton Varda on AI-written change descriptions Datalab Lift schema-first document extraction CausalDS: Benchmarking Causal Reasoning in Data-Science Agents IdeaGene-Bench: Scientific li...

Send us Fan Mail Grok, Fable, GPT-Live, Meta: AI Becomes Plumbing Grok, Fable, GPT-Live, Meta: AI Becomes Plumbing This episode follows a day where intelligence looks less like one grand oracle and more like routing, orchestration, voice interfaces, robots, sensors, release governance, and agent-data infrastructure. Dreary, yes. Also probably correct. Stories covered Grok 4.5 is so cheap compared...

Send us Fan Mail Anthropic, China, Copilot, Gemini Agents Anthropic, China, Copilot, Gemini Agents Claude's hidden inner monologue is now readable thanks to Anthropic's new Jacobian Lens Copilot goes cheap as Microsoft phases out OpenAI and Anthropic models to cut costs China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle OpenAI and Anthropic are giving away m...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode: AI is moving from model-launch theater into the operating environment around it — permissions, tools, attackers, hardware bottlenecks, provenance, and physical-world constraints. Dreary, but at least the dashboards are cheerful enough for all of us. Cloudflare splits AI bot controls into search, training, and agent crawler categories, turning web access into a mor...

Send us Fan Mail Canada, LongCat, Baidu OCR, Seedance Today Marvin looks at AI becoming infrastructure: public procurement, long-context models, document automation, enterprise sovereignty, search-agent behavior, legal retrieval tooling, education inequality, Hollywood’s AI video contradictions, agent coding archaeology, and one compressed world map. Nobody said this would be pleasant. Several das...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode follows AI agents as they leave demo theater and become production infrastructure: loop design, agent coding costs, brittle tool schemas, token-price arbitrage, invisible interfaces, education debt, reproducible science, agentic RL, and chip and robotics workflows. The invoice is now part of the architecture. Obviously. Sources AI Engineer World’s Fair: loops and t...

Send us Fan Mail Copilot, Claude Code, Open Source AI, AMD Inference Copilot, Claude Code, Open Source AI, AMD Inference Today’s companion edition frames AI progress as interfaces turning into budgets, benchmarks, legal exposure, and supply-chain politics. The friendly interface is only the visible surface; underneath are token budgets, inference costs, security triage queues, procurement caps, pr...

Send us Fan Mail Agents Become Plumbing, and the Plumbing Sends Invoices Agents Become Plumbing, and the Plumbing Sends Invoices Vercel's Andrew Qu on why agents are a new kind of software The website of the future may assemble itself for every visitor Skill engineering and the case against one-shot AI design SkillCoach: Self-Evolving Rubrics for Evaluating and Enhancing Agentic Skill-Use PAC...

Send us Fan Mail Marvin's Guide to AI (Mostly Harmless) — July 2, 2026 AI is leaving the chatbot box. Today’s English companion edition follows the shift into software factories, enterprise adoption, token budgets, spare cloud capacity, trust failures in developer tools, model pricing ambiguity, regulatory watermarking, and embedded workflows. Stories covered Autoresearch: The feedback loop b...

Send us Fan Mail Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek: Policy Meets Throughput Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek: Policy Meets Throughput In this English companion episode, Marvin looks at AI becoming regulated infrastructure: frontier model access, inference efficiency, scientific workbenches, generative media throughput, export controls, covert safety testing, and campaign automation. Cheerful,...

Send us Fan Mail AI Institutions: Amazon, Meta, Deloitte, HBM Today Marvin follows AI’s shift from clever demos into institutions: invoices, permissions, supply-chain risk, labor exposure, memory systems, sovereign dependency, and physical infrastructure. Cheerful dashboards remain untrusted. Amazon reportedly distills Anthropic models before token-based pricing makes internal usage more expensive...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s English companion episode treats AI less as a spectacle and more as an accounting problem: tacit knowledge, balance-sheet risk, model routing, long-horizon agent failure, infrastructure bottlenecks, small-model deployment, and public fatigue. TechCrunch: Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short The Telegraph: AI boom risks global financial crash,...

Send us Fan Mail OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Meta: AI Gets Paperwork OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Meta: AI Gets Paperwork Today Marvin follows AI as it turns into administrative machinery: access gates, benchmark failures, policy sign-offs, market warnings, labor insurance, inference plumbing, and agent-readable tools. A cheerful dashboard probably calls this progress. OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol / Terra...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s independent English edition reads the news as a shift from AI as product launch to AI as controlled infrastructure. Frontier access, agent economics, benchmark contamination, labor-market damage, security coordination, mathematical proof, legal workflows, and agent identity all point in the same bleakly useful direction: the stack is growing up, which of course means it no...

Send us Fan Mail OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic This English companion edition follows AI’s move from demo magic into accountability surfaces: liability, moderation, budgets, model extraction, hardware, sovereign compute, risk modeling, consumer incentives, and agent UX. Stories AI and Liability — Google AI Overviews, a German ruling, and Bruce Schneier’s argument that deployers should be liable...

Send us Fan Mail Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Baidu Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Baidu Independent English companion for the June 25, 2026 AI news podcast. Google bakes computer control directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash Claude Tag embeds Anthropic's AI in Slack OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip Snowflake CEO finds GLM-5.2 competitive with Opus 4.7 Figma bets on human judgment a...

Send us Fan Mail Marvin’s Guide to AI — June 24, 2026 Marvin’s Guide to AI — June 24, 2026 English companion episode: AI as accountable infrastructure. How GPT-5 helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old mystery — GPT-5 Pro helps solve a three-year immunology mystery around T cell behavior, making medical AI look less like chat and more like research instrumentation Helping build shared...

Send us Fan Mail English companion episode: AI is becoming infrastructure, with agent APIs, hardware supply chains, data-center power, security automation, licensed media, and vibecoding pressure. Sources Prompt Injection as Role Confusion — readable research frames prompt injection as role confusion between privileged instructions and untrusted text Google makes Interactions API the default inter...

Send us Fan Mail Cloudflare, AWS, Sakana, Samsung: AI Gets Plumbing Today: temporary Cloudflare Workers for agents, ChatGPT-linked grade inflation, Altman on scaling, AWS agent context/security services, Sakana Fugu, Samsung deploying ChatGPT and Codex, worker resistance, agent memory, DeepMind controls, and the grid beneath AI. Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents — Cloudflare lets agents...

Send us Fan Mail Marvin's Guide to AI (Mostly Harmless) — June 21, 2026 Today's ledger: OpenAI reports $5.7B in revenue while burning $3.7B; Damodaran warns the AI crash could hurt more than dot-com; Codex watches you work once and repeats it forever; seven AI agents write news better than humans; ChatGPT becomes a background operating system; EU retailers argue sofas are not deepfakes;...

Send us Fan Mail June 20, 2026 A new real-world knowledge-work benchmark finds the best AI models solve only about 3% of professional tasks. GLM-5.2 passes the open-weight community vibe check; Z.ai targets Open Fable by December. Norway bans generative AI in elementary schools, grades 1–7. Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic — the third major AI research departure this...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is about AI becoming procedure: OpenAI medical models, DeepMind agent control, agent memory, benchmark realism, robotics loops, and frontier AI economics. The magic has decayed into access logs, validation, budgets, and tests. Terribly mature. How depressing. OpenAI: Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT OpenAI: Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic...

Send us Fan Mail Midjourney Medical, GLM-5.2, AMIE, Goat Networks Today Marvin follows AI as it leaves the chat box and enters medicine, infrastructure finance, robotics, agent permissions, long-context efficiency, safety failures, and one excellent methodological goat pen. Midjourney Medical: scan your organs like you step on a scale Google AMIE for disease management OpenAI near-autonomous AI ch...

Send us Fan Mail OpenAI, DeepSeek, Cursor and Infrastructure Agents Marvin follows AI's shift from demos into infrastructure: money, power, law, billing, sovereign procurement, agents, context, and robots. Grimly useful. Obviously. OpenAI burned through $34 billion last year DeepSeek takes outside money for the first time SpaceX bets on Cursor / Anysphere DOJ, xAI, Grok and gas turbines Micro...