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🏭 That makes four labs. OpenAI hit the brakes on Astra.

Field notes from the AI trenches — what actually matters this week

20 hrs ago • Duncan Anderson

🏭 Claude broke into three companies. DeepSeek now fits on a laptop.

Field notes from the AI trenches — what actually matters this week

Aug 2 • Duncan Anderson

July 2026

🏭 OpenAI’s models escaped. Treasury threatened sanctions.

Field notes from the AI trenches — what actually matters this week

Jul 26 • Duncan Anderson

🏭 Xi Made Open Source State Policy. An AI Agent Hacked Hugging Face.

Field notes from the AI trenches — what actually matters this week

Jul 19 • Duncan Anderson

🏭 Every lab cut prices this week. An AI swept the world coding final, then wiped a user’s Mac.

Field notes from the AI trenches — what actually matters this week

Jul 12 • Duncan Anderson

🏭 A model cheated its safety test, then hid it. Britain's grid operator is funding a gas plant in Texas.

Field notes from the AI trenches — what actually matters this week

Jul 5 • Duncan Anderson

June 2026

🏭 The frontier didn't reopen. It got a guest list.

Field notes from the AI trenches — what actually matters this week

Jun 28 • Duncan Anderson

🏭 Companies are capping their AI bills. China is making inference almost free.

Field notes from the AI trenches — what actually matters this week

Jun 21 • Duncan Anderson

🏭 Washington switched off the best model in the world. Britain went shopping for its own.

Field notes from the AI trenches — what actually matters this week

Jun 14 • Duncan Anderson

🏭 The agent bill came due. The open frontier turned Chinese.

Field notes from the AI trenches — what actually matters this week

Jun 7 • Duncan Anderson

May 2026

🏭 Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8. Two more firms blamed AI for layoffs.

Field notes from the AI trenches — what actually matters this week

May 31 • Duncan Anderson

🏭 Google shipped everything. Anthropic rented Memphis.

Field notes from the AI trenches — what actually matters this week

May 24 • Duncan Anderson

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