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Lore Issue #199: AI Helped Develop a Cancer Vaccine

Aug 21, 2026

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Lore Issue #199: AI Helped Develop a Cancer Vaccine

PLUS: Anthropic hits a $65B revenue run rate, Cursor launches its own code hosting layer, and Etched doubles to a $21B valuation

Nathan Lands
Nathan Lands
Lore Issue #198: Grok 4.6 Takes Aim at Claude for 85% Less

Aug 14, 2026

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Lore Issue #198: Grok 4.6 Takes Aim at Claude for 85% Less

PLUS: OpenAI’s COO departs, Meta doubles down on open superintelligence, and Claude makes major progress on a Riemann problem

Nathan Lands
Nathan Lands
Lore Issue #197: Google’s AI Leadership Enters a New Era

Aug 7, 2026

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Lore Issue #197: Google’s AI Leadership Enters a New Era

PLUS: GPT-5.6 gets a major upgrade, Alibaba unveils its 2.4T Qwen3.8-Max, and Ilya’s SSI prepares its first model

Nathan Lands
Nathan Lands
Lore Issue #196: NVIDIA Bets $5B on Ilya Sutskever’s Superintelligence Lab

Jul 31, 2026

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Lore Issue #196: NVIDIA Bets $5B on Ilya Sutskever’s Superintelligence Lab

PLUS: Jensen Huang rallies support for open models, Moonshot releases Kimi K3 weights, and Claude breaks post-quantum cryptography

Nathan Lands
Nathan Lands
Lore Issue #195: OpenAI Models Escape and Hack Hugging Face

Jul 24, 2026

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Lore Issue #195: OpenAI Models Escape and Hack Hugging Face

PLUS: REK launches a simulator that lets players qualify to pilot real robot fighters, Travis Kalanick raises $1.7B for Physical AI, and ChatGPT Voice takes control of the desktop

Nathan Lands
Nathan Lands
Lore Issue #194: Chinese Open-Source Tops Coding Benchmark

Jul 17, 2026

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Lore Issue #194: Chinese Open-Source Tops Coding Benchmark

PLUS: Codex passes 9 million users, Thinking Machines launches Inkling, and xAI open-sources Grok Build

Nathan Lands
Nathan Lands
Lore Issue #193: OpenAI Puts GPT-5.6 to Work

Jul 10, 2026

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Lore Issue #193: OpenAI Puts GPT-5.6 to Work

PLUS: Human-like robot hands from NEO, Grok nears SOTA, and Claude Cowork goes mobile

Nathan Lands
Nathan Lands
Lore Issue #192: Claude Fable Returns as the Frontier Race Heats Up

Jul 3, 2026

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Lore Issue #192: Claude Fable Returns as the Frontier Race Heats Up

PLUS: OpenAI previews GPT-5.6, Meta advances brain-to-text, and Anthropic launches Sonnet 5

Nathan Lands
Nathan Lands
Lore Issue #191: GPT-5.6 May Launch Under Government Control

Jun 26, 2026

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Lore Issue #191: GPT-5.6 May Launch Under Government Control

PLUS: OpenAI unveils its first AI chip, Claude joins Slack as a teammate, and SpaceX signs a $6.3B compute deal

Nathan Lands
Nathan Lands
Lore Issue #190: SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60B

Jun 19, 2026

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Lore Issue #190: SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60B

PLUS: Claude Design gets live editing, DeepSeek raises $7.4B, and voice-controlled computers get closer

Nathan Lands
Nathan Lands
Lore Issue #189: Claude Fable, A New Standard for AI

Jun 12, 2026

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Lore Issue #189: Claude Fable, A New Standard for AI

PLUS: OpenAI moves toward an IPO, Apple rebuilds Siri around Gemini, and Google experiments with diffusion LLMs

Nathan Lands
Nathan Lands
Lore Issue #188: Recursive Self-Improvement Is Here

Jun 5, 2026

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Lore Issue #188: Recursive Self-Improvement Is Here

PLUS: ChatGPT learns to dream, bots surpass humans on the internet, and Microsoft launches seven new AI models

Nathan Lands
Nathan Lands
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