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The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.

Anthropic Economic Index June 2026 Report (7 minute read)

Anthropic's June 2026 Economic Index report reveals that AI computational costs strongly correlate with the economic value of tasks, with higher-wage occupations consuming up to 2.5 times more tokens.

Memory Prices report from Stanford (4 minute read)

Stanford published an interactive report on historic and current memory and storage prices. The dataset follows the spirit of John C. McCallum's classic memory-price work, with downloadable raw data and chart export…

TLDR is hiring a Senior PMM (225k base + $40-50k annual target bonus, Fully Remote)

We're hiring a senior PMM to own product marketing at TLDR. You'll define our positioning, build out sales enablement, and lead every launch. Learn more.

The Sequence Radar #885: Last Week in AI: Models, Games, and the Future of Evaluation

New model releases, new agents and a soccer cup.

The Sequence Opinion #884: Self-Driving Labs: The Laboratory That Chooses Its Next Experiment

An essay about the raise of autonomous science environments.

GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents (11 minute read)

GLM-5.2 seemed like an incremental update, but the small change in benchmarks and training opened up a wide range of new use-cases. It feels right at home in coding harnesses as a general agent. Many in the AI community…

A Weekly AI Digest → What Happens When Agents Start Building Their Own World?

How recursive improvement, agent infrastructure, and new learning paradigms are reshaping AI

Claude Tag (2 minute read)

Anthropic introduced Claude Tag, a Slack-based workflow that lets teams assign tasks to Claude, connect it to tools and codebases, and have it retain context across channels. The company said the system had become a…

Using Codex for Long-Running Projects (18 minute read)

This guide outlines strategies for treating Codex as a persistent workspace that can maintain context across extended projects. It covers workflow management, task decomposition, and techniques for balancing autonomous…

Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI's future in Hollywood with A24 deal

Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.

GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents

A capability threshold I've been carefully monitoring.

The Sequence Special #881: The Soccer World Cup of AI Models

What happens when AI models compete in the most popular sport in the world?

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake

This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.

OpenAI Introduced Enterprise Usage Analytics (3 minute read)

OpenAI introduced new credit usage analytics and expanded spend controls for ChatGPT Enterprise.

The Sequence Opinion #879: When Tokens Become Balance Sheet Items

The Token Economy Is Here. We're Measuring It Wrong.

State of the blog, mid-2026

About 3 years since I started writing weekly.

A Weekly AI Digest → What If Models Are No Longer the Main Story?

Why skills, loops, and verification are becoming the new AI frontier

Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning

UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.

Welcome to the AGI era of AI governance

It's a one-way door and we weren't ready for it.

The Sequence Radar #877: Last Week in AI: Anthropic Ships, Apple Borrows, Musk Lists, Bezos Builds

AI just got way bigger.

OpenAI Acquired Ona for Long-Running Agents (1 minute read)

OpenAI announced it would acquire Ona to bring secure cloud execution and orchestration capabilities into the Codex platform. The technology is intended to support persistent, customer-controlled environments where…

I just wanted to give my agent a little memory. Redis Iris saved me. (Sponsor)

Three days into building a context engine from scratch and drowning in decision fatigue, Redis Iris saved the day (and the product, and my brain).Check it out.

The Sequence Opinion #876: Systems of Record vs. Systems of Action

A new business software paradigm for the agentic era.

Codex for Black Hole Simulations (4 minute read)

Astrophysicist Chi-kwan Chan used Codex to refine and test algorithms for simulating plasma and particle behavior around black holes.

Measuring LLMs' impact on N-day exploits (18 minute read)

N-days are vulnerabilities that have already been publicly disclosed, but only patched on some devices. They can be more dangerous than zero-day vulnerabilities as the patches provide a roadmap to the bugs. The process…

DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation

The Sequence AI of the Week #875: Why Your Language Model Needs a Nap

On "Language Models Need Sleep," and the slow death of the train/test split

Claude Fable 5 Launch (6 minute read)

Anthropic announced Claude Fable 5 for general use and Claude Mythos 5 for selected cyberdefenders and infrastructure providers. The models were described as highly capable across software engineering, research, vision,…

The Sequence Knowledge #874: Transformers or Not?

One of the biggest debates in modern AI.

A Weekly Digest → The Agentic Era meets Reality

The most important shifts in AI during the week of June 1-7. It's all about agents

OpenAI's Database Change Analysis (28 minute read)

SchemaFlow demonstrates an AI-assisted workflow for database change requests, covering structured request parsing, impact analysis, SQL generation, guardrails, artifact creation, and evals. The cookbook used a retail…

OpenAI Filed a Confidential S-1 (1 minute read)

OpenAI announced that it confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC while noting that no IPO timing had been decided. The statement said the filing preserved the option to go public sooner while the company…

Built to benefit everyone: our plan (5 minute read)

Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki frame OpenAI's three current goals as building an automated AI researcher, accelerating the economy while ensuring gains are widely shared, and giving everyone on Earth a personal AGI. They…

Making Claude a chemist (12 minute read)

Anthropic's AI model Claude performs well in predicting NMR spectra, matching and sometimes surpassing traditional tools like ChemDraw and MestReNova. Opus 4.7, a Claude variant, accurately predicted hydrogen and carbon…

OpenAI Adds Lockdown Mode (3 minute read)

OpenAI introduced Lockdown Mode to reduce exposure to prompt injection attacks from webpages and external content. The feature disables live browsing, web image retrieval, deep research, and agent mode while keeping…

The Sequence Radar #873: Last Week in AI: Soccer, S-1s, and Supermodels

A new AI soccer tournament, major model releases, fundraises and Antropic's S-1.

When AI builds itself (25 minute read)

Anthropic is expediting AI development by enabling AI systems to autonomously design and develop successors, a concept known as recursive self-improvement. Internal benchmarks show AI-driven processes allow typical…

ChatGPT Dreaming V3 (7 minute read)

OpenAI introduced a new memory synthesis system for ChatGPT designed to improve freshness, continuity, and relevance over longer time horizons. The update began rolling out to Plus and Pro users in the US, with broader…

The Sequence Opinion #872: The Cake Is a Battlefield: Who Really Controls the AI Stack

Full stacks vs layer specialists. That's the AI race.

Codex new Capabilities (6 minute read)

OpenAI released new Codex capabilities and six role-specific plug-ins for data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking.

Open and closed models are on different exponentials (8 minute read)

A lot of businesses want to switch to open models, but these models aren't yet good enough in out-of-distribution tasks. However, they will eventually catch up. The open model ecosystem will be far more diverse and…

Anthropic Filed a Confidential Draft IPO Registration (2 minute read)

Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering. The filing does not set pricing or share counts and remains…

OpenAI and Codex Reach AWS (3 minute read)

OpenAI announced the general availability of its frontier models and Codex on AWS. The integration allows enterprises to access OpenAI capabilities through existing AWS security, governance, procurement, and billing…

Open and closed models are on different exponentials

Where marginally higher intelligence drives value, and where it doesn't.

Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking (4 minute read)

Inherent, a London-based AI lab, is building a platform called Faraday aimed at figuring out which questions are worth asking.

The Sequence Radar #869: Last Week in AI: The Token Becomes the Unit of Account — Opus 4.8, OpenRouter, Cognition, Snowflake, and a papal warning

Opus 4.8 and remarkable fundraising events.

Anthropic Raised $65B in Series H Funding (2 minute read)

Anthropic announced a 965 billion post-money valuation, citing strong enterprise adoption, $47 billion in run-rate revenue, and plans to expand compute capacity, research, and product development.

OpenAI Published a Frontier Governance Framework (4 minute read)

OpenAI released a governance framework describing how its safety and security practices align with emerging regulations, covering risk management, model reporting, incident response, and oversight for advanced AI…