LAI #127: The Infrastructure Layer of AI Is Becoming the Product
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, we’re looking at the shift from “AI demos” to real systems: agents that need reliable execution, enterprises building durable AI infrastructure, and architectures that survive production …
TAI #202: GPT-5.5 Moves Codex Into Real Work
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23. In the same week, they launched workspace agents in ChatGPT and released Privacy Filter for PII redaction; Google …
TAI #200: Anthropic’s Mythos Capability Step Change and Gated Release
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, Anthropic unveiled a new flagship-class model, Claude Mythos Preview. It limited access to the model to “Project Glasswing”, a tightly gated cyber-defense …
LAI #122: Word Embeddings Started in 1948, Not With Word2Vec
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, we’re covering what happens when AI labs sit across the table from governments, why most AI-generated writing still sounds the same (and how to fix it), …
TAI #199: Gemma 4 Brings a Credible US Open-Weight Contender Back to the Table
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, and I think this is the most consequential US open-weight release in quite a while. China has …
LAI #121: The single-agent sweet spot nobody wants to admit
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! Your next AI system is probably too complicated, and you haven’t even built it yet. This week, we co-published a piece with Paul Iusztin that gives you a …
TAI #198: Real-Time Speech AI Gets Serious: Google and OpenAI Race to Own the Voice Layer
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie Real-time speech AI has been progressing quietly for the past year, but the past few weeks have delivered enough to warrant a dedicated look. …
TAI #195: GPT-5.4 and the Arrival of AI Self-Improvement?
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie Two stories dominated this week that look unrelated but tell the same story. On Wednesday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4, its most work-oriented frontier model to …
TAI #194: AI Goes Macro; Job Loss Fears, Military Usage, OpenAI $110B Raise
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week brought a series of developments that signal AI is quickly becoming more than just a technology story: AI’s revenue, its politics, and …
LAI #115: The Hidden Cost of “Agent-First” Thinking
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! AI is getting embedded into real workflows: repos, data platforms, enterprise search, and production infrastructure. And as that happens, a pattern is showing up everywhere: the biggest failures …
TAI #192: AI Enters the Scientific Discovery Loop
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, LLMs crossed from tools into participants in scientific discovery. OpenAI released a preprint, “Single-minus gluon tree amplitudes are nonzero,” in which GPT-5.2 …
TAI #191: Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 Ship Minutes Apart as the Long-Horizon Agent Race Goes Vertical
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie On February 5th, Anthropic and OpenAI released Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex, respectively, within minutes of each other. Both are point releases, but both …
LAI #113: The Engineering Work That Decides Whether AI Holds Up
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts, Shipping AI in 2026 is about operational discipline: catching data drift before users do, keeping inference fast as workloads grow, choosing architectures that survive real traffic, and understanding …
LAI #110: Fixing Context Rot and Rethinking How Agents Reason
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts, This week, we’re looking at why agent systems drift, confuse themselves, or quietly break when tasks get long. I unpack the real cause of “random” agent degradation: context …
TAI #187: OpenAI’s Health Push and the Real State of LLMs in Medicine
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie OpenAI made its biggest healthcare push this week with two launches: ChatGPT Health for consumers and OpenAI for Healthcare for enterprises. The consumer product …
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