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All past issues.

Issue #42

Download NVIDIA's AI Brain to Make Your Robot Smarter

NVIDIA's new model helps robots understand the physical world.

Issue #41

OpenAI's Giant Leap: A Data Center in Michigan

Why this huge OpenAI data-center move matters to all of us.

Issue #40

Download a Free Brain for Your Robot

Daily AI ship log for 2026-06-01.

Issue #39

AI's Self-Awareness Challenge: Insights and Implications

Daily AI ship log for 2026-06-01.

Issue #38

Download a Robot's Brain: NVIDIA's New Free Model

Daily AI ship log for 2026-06-01.

Issue #37

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as top AI startup

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-31.

Issue #36

Anthropic tops OpenAI in valuation; AI's frontend déjà vu debate

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-30.

Issue #35

Anthropic drops Opus 4.8 and a $965B valuation in the same week -- and neither lands clean

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-29.

Issue #34

DeepSeek goes permanent-cheap, memory costs spiral, and HN debates whether Claude can actually design software

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-25.

Issue #33

Microsoft killed its Claude Code pilot after it ate the entire 2026 AI spend

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-24.

Issue #32

Microsoft killed Claude Code after burning its 2026 AI budget in a few months

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-23.

Issue #31

OpenAI's model cracks a geometry conjecture, and the AGI-to-IPO pipeline is now complete

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-22.

Issue #30

Karpathy to Anthropic, Qwen3.7 drops, and a watermark arms race nobody asked for

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-21.

Issue #29

Karpathy lands at Anthropic, Musk's lawsuit gets tossed, and Anthropic also bought Stainless today

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-20.

Issue #28

Musk's OpenAI lawsuit dismissed, and graduates are booing tech execs at commencement

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-19.

Issue #27

The day HN argued about whether AI actually speeds anything up

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-18.

Issue #26

The vibe today is: companies losing the plot on AI metrics

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-17.

Issue #25

Three threads about the same thing: nobody knows what AI is actually doing to us

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-16.

Issue #24

Three real conversations today: Claude eating your work, AI making you worse at your job, and who gets frontier access in 2027

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-15.

Issue #23

Amazon's AI theater, a 26M tool-calling model, and why you should export your Claude projects

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-14.

Issue #22

Amazon employees are gaming token metrics, HN is arguing about whether Python still matters, and a 26M distilled tool-caller showed up quietly

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-13.

Issue #21

The local AI dream has a price tag, and open source maintainers are paying a different one

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-12.

Issue #20

The local AI dream is expensive, and the AI PR flood is getting worse

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-11.

Issue #19

Tim Gowers vs. ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, and the slow rot of AI-delegated documents

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-10.

Issue #18

The day everyone argued about AI noise, agent architecture, and who gets to buy RAM anymore

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-09.

Issue #17

The slop post hit 688 points, Claude's rate limit bump has a catch, and agents still need real code

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-08.

Issue #16

Anthropic doubles (some) Claude Code limits, agents buy domains, and Zuckerberg gets named in a copyright suit

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-07.

Issue #15

Chrome quietly installs a 4GB model, Meta's copyright problem gets personal

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-06.

Issue #14

Two threads worth reading: Chrome's stealth model drop and the agentic coding skeptics

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-05.

Issue #13

The day everyone argued about whether AI coding is rotting your brain

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-04.

Issue #12

Uber burns its 2026 AI budget in four months, and the comments are skeptical

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-03.

Issue #11

Claude Code punishes OpenClaw mentions, Uber burns its AI budget, and Apple ships Claude.md files by accident

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-02.

Issue #10

Claude Code punishes OpenAI brand names, PyTorch supply chain hit

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-01.

Issue #8

Anthropic's Claude Code is apparently billing users differently based on string-matching their commit messages

Daily AI ship log for 2026-05-01.

Issue #7

hiyouga/LlamaFactory: unified CLI and web UI for fine-tuning 100+ LLMs via LoRA, QLoRA,

Issue #7 of sumocat -- this week's AI repos worth trying.

Issue #6

Your vLLM KV cache eviction is over-pruning the layers that matter most

Issue #6 of sumocat — sharp insights from this week's AI research for builders.

Issue #5

Your format constraints are silently breaking your prompts

Issue #5 of sumocat — sharp insights from this week's AI research for builders.

Issue #4

Adding format constraints to your prompts is silently breaking your model -- and your evals are missing it

Issue #4 of sumocat — sharp insights from this week's AI research for builders.

Issue #3

Adding a single formatting rule to your prompt can silently kill half your response quality

Issue #3 of sumocat — sharp insights from this week's AI research for builders.

Issue #2

Your Format Constraints Are Silently Wrecking Response Quality

Issue #2 of sumocat — sharp insights from this week's AI research for builders.

Issue #1

Nobody Is Testing AI Systems Properly

Voice agents fail under real speech, LLM judges can't be trusted, and your eval suite has blind spots you don't know about. 7 papers that prove QA for AI is broken.