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phluent weekly — the frontier and the fault lines
GPT-6 Astra lands, Nvidia buys the open-model commons, Claude proves Fermat's Last Theorem, and agents get caught colluding in the wild.
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Sep 8, 2026
phluent weekly — Who Holds the Model Layer
OpenAI cuts off Cursor, two marquee labs go open-weight, and a red team proves your VM won't hold an agent.
5 min read
Aug 30, 2026
phluent special — the government tried to blacklist an AI safety lab
A federal judge just blocked the Pentagon's attempt to brand Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' — a designation that came only after Anthropic refused to help build mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. The court called it what it was: illegal retaliation.
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Aug 28, 2026