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When Smaller Models Win (opens the original)
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The Apache Lesson for AI (opens the original)
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This post was originally published as “Why Open Source Matters for AI” on O’Reilly Radar, August 10, 2026 by Tim O’Reilly: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/why-open-source-matters-for-ai/<div class=
Google’s Westinghouse Bet (opens the original)
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On August 5, Google announced what appeared to be a corporate version of Nixon’s Saturday night massacre. Demis Hassabis stepped back from day to day operations at DeepMind. Jeff Dean, the founding father of Google engineering, is leaving to start a new lab called Discovery Loop, taking Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals with him. Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind’s CTO, now has operational responsibility for DeepMind and GeminiDylan Patel and his colleagues at SemiAnalysis read this as a kin
Differentiation and personality in AI models (opens the original)
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Ask ChatGPT, Claude and Grok the same question and you get three different answers. Yes, the facts are (largely) the same, but it’s clear that three different personalities answer back. OpenAI shipped first and established a template for what a helpful assistant sounds like, careful and accommodating and reluctant to give offense. Anthropic leaned into guardrails and values and character and trained Claude against a written constitution. Elon Musk built Grok to be the reb
Open Protocols are Shaping AI Markets: The case of MCP (opens the original)
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Written by Adam Jones (Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic) and Tadas Antanavicius (Co-creator of PulseMCP). Republished with permission from PulseMCP. The original article was published by PulseMCP on July 17, 206: https://www.pulsemcp.com/posts/effective-patterns-for-advanced-mcp-usage.Introduction by the AI Disclosures ProjectPerhaps the best example of how a
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