Nouveau Monthly Roundup #44: July 2026
It’s a quiet week so let’s do the monthly right on schedule.
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Récent Twitter Thoughts For You
I previously have written back in March 2022 about how I use Twitter, and back in April 2023 about Twitter and its then-new algorithms, which have changed again.
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Récent Better Call Sol The Workhorse
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol is finally here, along with the cheaper Terra and Luna.
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AI #176 Part 2: Plan B
This is part 2 of the weekly, broadly covering speculation, rhetoric and policy, along with alignment research.
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AI #176 Part 1: Doing It Live
Enough things added up that this week is getting split into two parts.
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Childhood and Education #20: Phones and Screens
We have a respite, so I thought I’d tackle various thoughts on children, phones and screens.
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No Space Like J-Space
There is a new very cool Anthropic paper: Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models. You can read the blog post verison here.
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Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses
Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit’s free. Then you pay by the token.
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The Once And Future Fable #5
We, or at least ‘more than 100 American institutions,’ got Mythos back this week.
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WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense
The Wall Street Journal printed an outright false headline and heavily misleading story claiming this, which of course was uncritically amplified by the usual suspects.
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GPT-5.6: The System Card
While we wait for a general release, the system card is the best hint as to what is going on with the new candidate for America’s Next Top Model, GPT-5.6.
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White House Will Ad Hoc Decide Who Can Individually Access GPT-5.6
We have a new standard policy for releasing frontier AI models. It is not good.
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