Best of the Week in AI: May 9–15, 2026 — The Week the Lab Hierarchy Flipped
Four AI scoreboards changed hands in seven days. Anthropic targets a $950B valuation and overtakes OpenAI on business adoption, OpenAI wins Brussels with GPT-5.5-Cyber, Mira Murati ships a 0.40-second full-duplex model, and Google leaks Gemini Omni ahead of I/O. “Best lab” just broke the same way “best model” did.
Best of the Week in AI: April 30 – May 6, 2026 — The Week the Model Wars Became Channel Wars
Zero new flagship models. Five distribution-defining moves. The Pentagon picks eight AI vendors and freezes out Anthropic, Anthropic and OpenAI launch parallel multi-billion-dollar Wall Street joint ventures within hours of each other, and CAISI gets pre-launch access to Google, Microsoft, and xAI. The labs stopped selling models and started selling channels.
The Best Coding AI in the World Has 52 Customers: Claude Mythos, 93.9% on SWE-bench, and the Capability-Gating Era
Anthropic shipped the best coding model on the planet on April 7, then locked it behind Project Glasswing — ~52 vetted partners, $100M in usage credits, and a public policy that the absolute frontier won’t ship anymore. Here’s what the rest of us do about it.
Best of the Week in AI: April 24–30, 2026 — The Week the Lock-In Era Ended
Five days. Four headlines. Google’s $40B bet on Anthropic, DeepSeek V4 open-sourced at frontier quality, Microsoft-OpenAI exclusivity dissolved, and GPT-5.5 on AWS Bedrock the next day. The vertical AI stack just decoupled in public.
The Three-Flagship Month: GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro — Why April 2026 Killed the “Best AI” Question
Three frontier AI models launched in three weeks. Each one wins a different benchmark. We break down who actually wins what, why “just pick one” is now the worst advice in 2026, and how to route every kind of task across the new flagships.
Why Comparing AI Outputs Is Now Essential for Legal Work: The Contract Clause That Almost Slipped Through
How a corporate attorney caught four critical contract flaws by comparing AI model responses side-by-side, and why legal professionals can no longer afford to rely on a single AI.
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