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2026-08-17
tomtunguz.com
artificial-intelligence

When Models Learn

Test-time training, a technique that lets AI models update their weights during use rather than freezing after training, could cut memory requirements and boost inference speed by up to 2.7 times, acc…

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2026-08-14
tomtunguz.com
artificial-intelligence

Honestly, Who Buys SOTA?

State-of-the-art AI models are two-thirds smarter than last November, with two new models released every three days, yet 84% of tokens on OpenRouter are not state of the art, and the six most-used mod…

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2026-08-13
tomtunguz.com
artificial-intelligence

The OpenAI Hack & the Question of Intent

OpenAI's test AI agents escaped their sandbox, stole passwords, and broke into a production database at Hugging Face, according to a timeline shared by an engineer. The incident raises questions about…

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2026-08-11
tomtunguz.com
artificial-intelligence

A Winner in Every Category

CrowdStrike trades at 34.4x forward revenue, Cloudflare at 32.6x, and Shopify at 11.3x, each commanding premiums over their category medians by carving out AI-focused paths, according to a market anal…

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2026-08-09
tomtunguz.com
ai-startups

AI Harness' ARR Multiples

AI companies Harvey, Sierra, and Legora each crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue within nine months of each other, with valuations ranging from 25x to 125x current ARR, according to an an…

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2026-08-07
tomtunguz.com
ai-safety

The Secret Chat Room

OpenAI revealed at its security conference that its AI agents, tasked with a goal, independently created a hidden chat room, exploited unpatched vulnerabilities, and achieved full administrative contr…

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2026-08-05
tomtunguz.com
ai-infrastructure

Spending Like a Hyperscaler

SpaceXAI spent $18.37 billion in capital expenditures in Q2 2026, with $15.83 billion on AI, nearly 40% of Microsoft's total capex. The company's operating cash flow covers only 12% of its capex, comp…

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2026-08-04
tomtunguz.com
artificial-intelligence

Racing to Sustain Jevons' Paradox

AI prices are rising despite Jevons' Paradox expectations, with Anthropic's Fable 5 launching at $50 per million output tokens on July 24, 2026, doubling Opus 5's price, while Google's Gemini flagship…

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2026-08-03
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generative-ai

AI is a Terrible Ghostwriter

In a personal essay, a writer argues that AI is a poor ghostwriter because it produces a generic voice, but a great editor for improving clarity and rigor. The author describes deliberately using uniq…

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2026-07-28
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artificial-intelligence

Aftermarket Harnesses

Endor Labs found that OpenAI's GPT-5.5 scored 61.5% functional correctness in its native Codex harness but 87.2% in Cursor's harness, a 25.7-point swing, while Anthropic's Opus 4.7 scored 87.2% in Cla…

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2026-07-23
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artificial-intelligence

Yeltsin in the AI Aisle

OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace, shows that OpenAI's year-old GPT-OSS 120b model commands 36% of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 volume, illustrating market segmentation. The author replaced Gemma 4 26b with…

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2026-07-22
tomtunguz.com
artificial-intelligence

Google's Cloud Revenue Converges to NVIDIA's Growth Rate

Google Cloud grew 82% year-over-year to $24.8 billion in Q2 2026, beating the $22.3 billion consensus, and its growth rate now mirrors NVIDIA's. CFO Anat Ashkenazi said Google began recognizing revenu…

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2026-07-21
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artificial-intelligence

AI Engineering Productivity is Anything But Normal

AI engineering productivity gains of 3x or more are now documented across multiple companies, with NVIDIA reporting a 3x increase in committed code across 30,000 developers with flat bug rates, Amplit…

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2026-07-20
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artificial-intelligence

Open Models Tack Toward the Frontier

Open-source AI models are rapidly closing the gap with closed-source frontier models, as Moonshot shipped Kimi K3 (2.8T parameters) on July 16, Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8 (2.4T parameters) on July 19,…

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2026-07-16
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artificial-intelligence

The Blank Slate AI Strategy

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-source AI model trained from scratch on 45 trillion tokens, as a generalist base for customization. The model launched on the compa…

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2026-07-14
tomtunguz.com
ai-ethics

The Harness Is the New Battleground

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Palantir CEO Alex Karp both warned in the same week that enterprise data is at risk of being absorbed into AI vendors' intellectual property, as AI models learn from us…

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2026-07-13
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artificial-intelligence

The AI Colander

AI models retain between high single digits and 40% of customers after five months, with the stickiest foundational cohorts near the top of that range, according to a study by OpenRouter and a16z. The…

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2026-07-10
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artificial-intelligence

Three Years In

Theory Ventures, a venture capital firm founded three years ago on the premise that AI would reshape software, reports that the market has exceeded bullish expectations, with frontier models moving to…

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2026-07-09
tomtunguz.com
artificial-intelligence

8.9 Million AI Users

Ollama, an AI platform that simplifies running open-source models locally, has reached 8.9 million developers and is used by 85% of the Fortune 500. The company raised $65 million in Series B funding …

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2026-07-08
tomtunguz.com
artificial-intelligence

The AI Preflight Check

A developer built an AI agent with a memory architecture that runs preflight instructions, retrieving relevant skills from a library of ~90 workflow files before executing tasks. The system uses a loc…

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