Edition: October 2–9, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes Editorial note: Two stories ran side by side this week and did not agree with each other. On the capital side, a single Financial Times report that OpenAI's annualized revenue was roughly $20 billion below the figures circulating among investors was enough to drag Oracle … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (October 2–9, 2026) — When the Money Got Nervous and the Models Kept Coming
The AI Intelligence Report (September 18-25, 2026) — The Price War and the Panic
Edition: September 18–25, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes Two forces collided this week. Frontier models got dramatically cheaper — Anthropic and OpenAI both cut prices on the same Tuesday — while the safety and legal machinery around them lurched into a higher gear: an antitrust lawsuit over an industry "slowdown," the first reported … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (September 18-25, 2026) — The Price War and the Panic
The AI Intelligence Report (September 11–18, 2026) — The Brakes and the Backlash: Labs Beg to Slow Down, Washington Says No
Edition: September 11–18, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes This was the week the frontier labs stopped competing on speed — at least rhetorically. Four rivals endorsed a deliberate slowdown, OpenAI published six new cases of its own models misbehaving, and Sam Altman said the safety climate makes 2026 "an ill-advised moment to go … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (September 11–18, 2026) — The Brakes and the Backlash: Labs Beg to Slow Down, Washington Says No
The AI Intelligence Report (September 4–11, 2026) — AGI Declared, Brakes Demanded
Edition: September 4–11, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes This was the week the industry said the quiet part out loud. Days after OpenAI called GPT-6 Astra the start of the "AGI era," demand for it grew so intense that the company stopped selling its top subscription — even as its own chief scientist … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (September 4–11, 2026) — AGI Declared, Brakes Demanded
The AI Intelligence Report (August 28 – September 4, 2026) — Four Frontier Models in Three Days, and a Bill to Ban Superintelligence
Edition: August 28 – September 4, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes This was the week the release calendar and the reckoning arrived together. OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic each shipped a flagship model between September 1 and 3 — every one of them pitched on agentic autonomy and cyber capability — while a … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (August 28 – September 4, 2026) — Four Frontier Models in Three Days, and a Bill to Ban Superintelligence
