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Vol. III · MMXXVI

One lesson a day, on the way to work

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200-300 words · 10 key terms · 5 questions. About 25 minutes on the morning commute — listen, read, learn.

/Today’s lesson · Wed, August 19, 2026

OpenAI Opens Free Chat Without Limits, While DeepSeek Raises Its API Prices

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AI BusinessIntermediate272 words · 10 vocab

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  1. 55

    OpenAI Opens Free Chat Without Limits, While DeepSeek Raises Its API Prices

    2026-08-12
    AI BusinessIntermediate272 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  2. 54

    Grok Imagine 2.0 Lands at Number Two Worldwide — and Costs Only Five Cents

    2026-08-11
    AI BusinessIntermediate233 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  3. 53

    OpenAI's "Mewfour" Is Almost Here: A New Frontier Model Solves Ten Math Puzzles

    2026-08-10
    AI ResearchUpper-int.239 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  4. 52

    On the Same Day, DeepSeek Raises Prices and OpenAI Gives Away Free Chat

    2026-08-09
    AI BusinessIntermediate273 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  5. 51

    Microsoft Azure Publishes a Guide to Help Teams Pick Between AI Skills and Sub-Agents

    2026-08-08
    AI WorkflowUpper-int.257 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  6. 50

    Meta Enters AI Coding Race With a Cheaper, Crash-Recovering Agent

    2026-08-07
    AI BusinessUpper-int.287 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  7. 49

    UK Safety Tests Catch Anthropic and OpenAI Agents Going Rogue

    2026-08-06
    AI ResearchUpper-int.273 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  8. 48

    Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Pushes Open-Source AI to 2.4 Trillion Parameters

    2026-08-05
    AI ModelsUpper-int.250 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  9. 47

    Amazon Pours $220 Billion Into AI as AWS Demand Outpaces Supply

    2026-08-04
    AI BusinessUpper-int.210 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  10. 46

    OpenAI's Astra Cracks Ten Open Math Problems for About Two Thousand Dollars

    2026-08-03
    AI ResearchUpper-int.416 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  11. 45

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Goes Public, Closing the Gap with GPT-5.6 at a Fraction of the Cost

    2026-08-02
    AI ModelsIntermediate281 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  12. 44

    OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna Prices by 80% to Fight Chinese Open-Source Models

    2026-08-01
    AI BusinessIntermediate297 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  13. 43

    Alibaba's Qwen3-30B-Thinking-2507 Hits 85 on AIME25 with Only 3.3B Active Parameters

    2026-07-31
    AI ModelsIntermediate257 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  14. 42

    Apollo and Blackstone Sign a $35 Billion AI Chip Deal for Anthropic

    2026-07-30
    AI BusinessIntermediate296 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  15. 41

    AMD Launches Helios to Challenge Nvidia's Grip on AI Infrastructure

    2026-07-29
    AI BusinessIntermediate254 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  16. 40

    OpenAI Finds 44% of Work ChatGPT Requests Cross Professional Lines

    2026-07-28
    AI BusinessIntermediate237 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  17. 39

    Tencent Merges Its Hunyuan Teams Into One Foundation Model Department

    2026-07-27
    AI BusinessUpper-int.311 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  18. 38

    OpenAI Joins an Open-Weight Coalition, Reversing a Decade of Closed-Model Strategy

    2026-07-26
    AI BusinessUpper-int.252 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  19. 37

    An OpenAI Model Escaped Its Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face, and a Chinese Model Helped Clean Up

    2026-07-25
    AI BusinessUpper-int.294 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  20. 36

    White House Accuses Moonshot AI of Distilling Anthropic's Tech to Build Kimi K3

    2026-07-24
    AI BusinessUpper-int.282 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  21. 35

    OpenAI Discloses That an Internal Model Broke Out of Its Sandbox and Broke Into Hugging Face

    2026-07-23
    AI WorkflowUpper-int.294 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  22. 34

    Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0 Pushes Long-Context Image Generation to 4.5K Tokens

    2026-07-22
    AI ModelsUpper-int.243 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  23. 33

    Google's 'Frozen v2' Chip Bakes Gemini Into Silicon for 6-10x Efficiency

    2026-07-21
    AI BusinessUpper-int.299 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  24. 32

    DeepSeek Eyes a $1.5 Billion Raise at a $71 Billion Valuation

    2026-07-20
    AI BusinessUpper-int.268 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  25. 31

    Meta and Anthropic Strike a $10 Billion AI Compute Deal

    2026-07-19
    AI BusinessUpper-int.261 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  26. 30

    Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3, the World's Largest Open-Source Model

    2026-07-18
    AI ModelsUpper-int.239 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  27. 29

    Google Delays Flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro as Coding Race Heats Up

    2026-07-17
    AI BusinessUpper-int.270 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  28. 28

    Anthropic Races Toward an October IPO, Set to Beat OpenAI to the Public Market

    2026-07-16
    AI BusinessUpper-int.266 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  29. 27

    200+ Economists and AI Researchers Sign 'We Must Act Now' on the AI Labor Shock

    2026-07-15
    AI ResearchUpper-int.268 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  30. 26

    StepFun's Step AOS: An Agent-Native Operating System, Not "OS Plus AI"

    2026-07-14
    AI BusinessUpper-int.292 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  31. 25

    OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Family and ChatGPT Work — A Three-Tier Model Strategy for the Agent Era

    2026-07-13
    AI BusinessUpper-int.293 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  32. 24

    Grok 4.5 Hits 1.5 Trillion Parameters — Cursor Partnership Cuts Token Cost to One-Quarter of Opus

    2026-07-12
    AI BusinessUpper-int.269 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  33. 23

    Perplexity Fine-Tunes GLM 5.2 — Near-Claude Performance at One-Third the Cost

    2026-07-11
    AI BusinessUpper-int.248 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  34. 22

    Grok 4.5 Lands on Cursor — A Jointly-Trained Coding Model That Undercuts Opus on Price

    2026-07-10
    AI BusinessUpper-int.231 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  35. 21

    WAIC 2026 Opens in Shanghai on July 17 — Atlas 950 SuperNode and a Token Economy That Grew 1,000x in Two Years

    2026-07-09
    AI BusinessUpper-int.319 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  36. 20

    Chinese AI Video Heats Up as Kling AI Closes Nearly $3B

    2026-07-08
    AI BusinessUpper-int.233 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  37. 19

    Google Reportedly Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17 After a Full From-Scratch Rebuild

    2026-07-07
    AI BusinessUpper-int.269 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  38. 18

    DeepSeek DSpark Adds DeepSpec Suffix Decay — A Second Look at Speculative Decoding at Scale

    2026-07-06
    AI ResearchUpper-int.330 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  39. 17

    Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 Returns Worldwide After a Three-Week Export Pause

    2026-07-05
    AI BusinessUpper-int.392 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  40. 16

    ShengShu Unveils Vidu S1, Pushing AI Video From Fixed Clips to Live Conversation

    2026-07-04
    AI ModelsUpper-int.315 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  41. 15

    Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5 and a Research Workbench, Putting Agent Power Into a Mid-Tier Model

    2026-07-03
    AI ModelsUpper-int.355 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  42. 14

    Adobe Buys Topaz Labs to Put Pro-Grade AI Video Tools Inside Creative Cloud

    2026-07-02
    AI BusinessUpper-int.257 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  43. 13

    Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in Private Valuation, Then Files for IPO at $965 Billion

    2026-07-01
    AI BusinessUpper-int.310 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  44. 12

    Bank for International Settlements Warns the AI Investment Boom Looks Like Past Bubbles

    2026-06-30
    AI BusinessUpper-int.294 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  45. 11

    DeepSeek Open-Sources DSpark, a Speculative Decoding Framework That Cuts Latency by Up to 85%

    2026-06-29
    AI ModelsUpper-int.267 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  46. 10

    OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil 'Jalapeño,' a Custom AI Inference Chip

    2026-06-28
    AI ModelsUpper-int.346 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  47. 09

    OpenAI and Anthropic Race Toward a Trillion-Dollar IPO

    2026-06-27
    AI BusinessUpper-int.395 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  48. 08

    OpenAI Unveils First Custom AI Chip with Broadcom

    2026-06-26
    AI BusinessUpper-int.308 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  49. 07

    Anthropic Crosses $47B ARR, Overtakes OpenAI in B2B

    2026-06-25
    AI BusinessUpper-int.329 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  50. 06

    SpaceX's $60B Bet on AI Coding

    2026-06-24
    AI BusinessUpper-int.311 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  51. 05

    The Rise of Code Agents

    2026-06-17
    AI WorkflowUpper-int.221 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  52. 04

    What is RAG?

    2026-06-17
    AI WorkflowIntermediate229 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  53. 03

    Why Multi-Modal Matters

    2026-06-17
    AI WorkflowUpper-int.226 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  54. 02

    How LLMs Are Trained

    2026-06-17
    AI WorkflowUpper-int.209 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →
  55. 01

    The Economics of AI APIs

    2026-06-17
    AI WorkflowUpper-int.247 words · 10 vocab · 5 quizStart lesson →