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This week in AI: This issue is built from the links the AI experts we follow shared most since our last issue on October 8, minus the stories we already sent you in the Daily Espresso. Updated 2026-10-13

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This issue is built from the links the AI experts we follow shared most since our last issue on October 8, minus the stories we already sent you in the Daily Espresso. The most shared: Anthropic's warning that small AI models may soon be able to copy themselves onto home devices. Also: a large study of what AI coding agents change at real companies, a fight over how to check AI math proofs, creative workers pushing back on AI, and police buying more AI....

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Latest Issue

#537 AI models may soon copy themselves onto smart fridges, Anthropic says
This issue is built from the links the AI experts we follow shared most since our last issue on October 8, minus the stories we already sent you in the Daily Espresso. The most shared: Anthropic's warning that small AI models may soon be able to copy themselves onto home devices. Also: a large study of what AI coding agents change at real companies, a fight over how to check AI math proofs, creative workers pushing back on AI, and police buying more AI....
2026-10-13
#536 Top AI models failed a test of inventing new AI research
#535 AI got too expensive, so companies are moving to cheaper models
#534 Universities cannot grade their way out of AI
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