Weekly Digest
A weekly roll-up of the most important items across my daily digests.
Weekly roll-up (for bookmarking). Each week links to the daily issues and surfaces a few highlights.
2026-W07 (2026-02-09 → 2026-02-15)
Issues: 2026-02-09 · 2026-02-10 · 2026-02-12 · 2026-02-13 · 2026-02-14 · 2026-02-15
Highlights — News
- Japanese stocks soar to record after Takaichi landslide election win (Financial Times - World)
- Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison (Financial Times - World)
- The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers (BBC News - Business)
- Luxury travel takes off as plane makers chase Asia's super-rich (BBC News - Business)
- Ella Baron on Jeff Bezos’s cuts to the Washington Post – cartoon (The Guardian - Business)
- Russia’s shell output soars as it prepares for ‘next war’, warns Estonia (Financial Times - World)
- Daniel Ek and Peter Thiel-backed start-ups win German military drone contracts (Financial Times - World)
- A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions (MIT Technology Review)
- US consumer spending slowed in December - Is it a warning for the economy? (BBC News - Business)
- Wrapped helps Spotify add users despite artists' criticism over fees (BBC News - Business)
Highlights — AI tools
- openai/openai-node: v6.18.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node)
- openai/openai-python: v2.17.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python)
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.79.0 (GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python)
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: sdk: v0.74.0 (GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript)
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: foundry-sdk: v0.2.3 (GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript)
- OpenAI says ChatGPT is growing again, plans new model this week (The Decoder (AI))
- openai/openai-python: v2.20.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python)
- openai/openai-node: v6.21.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node)
- openai/openai-python: v2.19.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python)
- openai/openai-node: v6.20.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node)
2026-W06 (2026-02-02 → 2026-02-08)
Issues: 2026-02-02 · 2026-02-04 · 2026-02-05 · 2026-02-06 · 2026-02-07
Highlights — News
- The Download: inside a deepfake marketplace, and EV batteries’ future (MIT Technology Review)
- AI 'slop' is transforming social media - and a backlash is brewing (BBC News - Technology)
- Viral AI personal assistant seen as step change – but experts warn of risks (The Guardian - Technology)
- Linq raises $20M to enable AI assistants to live within messaging apps (TechCrunch)
- Elon Musk’s Grok is still undressing men (The Verge)
- Can Tesla make its own chips? (Financial Times - Technology)
- Nvidia's $100 billion OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished (Ars Technica)
- Walmart becomes first retailer to hit $1tn market value (BBC News - Business)
- Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics (TechCrunch)
- Department of Justice appeals Google search monopoly ruling (The Verge)
Highlights — AI tools
- Chinese AI companies rush to ship new models before Lunar New Year (The Decoder (AI))
- ComfyUI v0.12.1 (GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
- Gemini models dominate new AI rankings for strategic board games (The Decoder (AI))
- Accelerating long-context model training in JAX and XLA (NVIDIA Developer Blog)
- H Company's new Holo2 model takes the lead in UI Localization (Hugging Face Blog)
- Apple’s Xcode adds OpenAI and Anthropic’s coding agents (The Verge)
- Xcode 26.3 unlocks agentic coding (official announcement) (Apple Newsroom)
- modelcontextprotocol/servers: Release 2026.1.26 (GitHub Releases - modelcontextprotocol/servers)
- Chinese AI video model Kling 3.0 takes another step toward usable creative assets (The Decoder (AI))
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.77.1 (GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python)
2026-W05 (2026-01-26 → 2026-02-01)
Issues: 2026-01-26 · 2026-01-27 · 2026-01-28 · 2026-01-29 · 2026-01-30 · 2026-01-31 · 2026-02-01
Highlights — News
- Inside OpenAI’s big play for science (MIT Technology Review)
- Data center power outage took out TikTok first weekend under US ownership (Ars Technica)
- TikTok attributes recent glitches to a power outage at a US data center (TechCrunch)
- MCP unites Claude chat with apps like Slack, Figma, and Canva (The Verge)
- MCP Apps, the Model Context Protocol's first official extension, turns AI responses into interactive interfaces (The Decoder (AI))
- Measles is surging in the US. Wastewater tracking could help. (MIT Technology Review)
- Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware (Ars Technica)
- ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data (The Verge)
- OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro solves math problems that stumped every AI model before it (The Decoder (AI))
Highlights — AI tools
- ChatGPT fails to spot 92% of fake videos made by OpenAI's own Sora tool (The Decoder (AI))
- Scaling NVFP4 Inference for FLUX.2 on NVIDIA Blackwell Data Center GPUs (NVIDIA Developer Blog)
- modelcontextprotocol/servers: Release 2026.1.14 (GitHub Releases - modelcontextprotocol/servers)
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.10.0 (GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
- Amazon Quick Suite launches expanded size, faster ingestion, and richer data type support for SPICE datasets (AWS What's New (Recent Announcements))
- First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general agent (Simon Willison (LLM/tools))
- [AINews] Anthropic launches the MCP Apps open spec, in Claude.ai (Latent Space (LLM/tools))
- modelcontextprotocol/servers: Release 2026.1.26 (GitHub Releases - modelcontextprotocol/servers)
- openai/openai-python: v2.16.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python)
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.11.0 (GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
2026-W04 (2026-01-19 → 2026-01-25)
Issues: 2026-01-20 · 2026-01-21 · 2026-01-22 · 2026-01-23 · 2026-01-24 · 2026-01-25
Highlights — News
- OpenAI partners with Cerebras (OpenAI Blog)
- Differential Transformer V2 (Hugging Face Blog)
- The Conversational Exam: A Scalable Assessment Design for the AI Era (arXiv)
- Open Responses: What you need to know (Hugging Face Blog)
- Evaluating 21st-Century Competencies in Postsecondary Curricula with Large Language Models: Performance Benchmarking and Reasoning-Based Prompting Strategies (arXiv)
- US regulator appeals Meta’s antitrust win (Financial Times - Technology)
- Global markets on alert as Europe to suspend approval of US trade deal (BBC News - Business)
- Anthropic’s CEO stuns Davos with Nvidia criticism (TechCrunch)
- Netflix earned $1.5 billion from ads in 2025 (The Verge)
- Dollar and US stocks fall as Trump says ‘no going back’ on Greenland bid (Financial Times - World)