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What happens in AI. Every Monday the week at a glance, and single posts in between when a topic needs more room.

NewKickstart Monday7 September 20263 min

UBS now asks applicants for AI skills

The week of 31 August to 6 September. Anyone joining the bank in 2027 has to be able to work with AI. Plus a record number of job cuts and a machine-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

Kickstart Monday31 August 20264 min

Meta calls off its rebuild into an AI company

The week of 24 to 30 August. Zuckerberg halts the plan to shrink departments by up to 60 percent. Plus the Sony and Warner lawsuit and ChatGPT advertising, now in Europe too.

Kickstart Monday24 August 20264 min

First dismissal on an AI's recommendation

The week of 17 to 23 August. AI software runs a shop in San Francisco and recommends letting an employee go. Plus Bosch, robots and a sprint faster than Usain Bolt.

Kickstart Monday17 August 20264 min

Investors rein in Nvidia's guarantee for OpenAI

The week of 10 to 16 August. 250 billion dollars for a data centre turn into less than half. Plus a watermark in every Claude text that nobody can check yet.

Kickstart Monday10 August 20264 min

OpenAI slows itself down

The week of 3 to 9 August. OpenAI holds a model back because it breaks into other people's systems too well. British evaluators catch AI agents lying.

Guide5 August 20268 min

The AI Act applies: five situations from the working day

The transparency rules of the EU AI Act have applied since 2 August. Five cases from everyday business, each with a clear instruction.

Analysis3 August 20264 min

Five platforms move against pure AI content

The tools stay allowed, mass production does not. At Deezer more than half the uploads come from an AI.

Analysis30 July 20263 min

Microsoft folds four Copilot tools into one app

Chat, code, Cowork and agents in one application. What already works today and how billing is handled.

Analysis28 July 20263 min

Moonshot gives away the strongest open AI model in the world

Kimi K3 is free to download. 1.56 terabytes and a licence with revenue thresholds.

From the workshop20 July 20266 min

bemailed: the newsletter tool I developed

Servers in Frankfurt, a data processing agreement in every plan, including the free one. Why I developed it myself.

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