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ISSUE #01 · EN/ES
Red Cards and Red Tape
The feds pulled an AI model, China gave one away, the World Cup kicked off, and El Paso took a big vote back home.
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Welcome back
A lot has happened since the last issue, in both local and national AI news.
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Feds ban Fable 5
Anthropic shipped its most capable coding model yet, then an export-control directive pulled it for everyone. Has the age of AI passports begun?
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Meanwhile, China gave one away
Z.ai released GLM 5.2 as open weights: within points of Opus 4.8 on coding, at roughly a sixth of the cost.
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More on SpaceX
Musk crossed a trillion the day SpaceX went public, and SpaceXAI agreed to buy Cursor for $60 billion in stock.
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Back home: the data center vote
City Council voted 5 to 3 against cancelling the Meta incentive deal, so the far-Northeast data center keeps moving forward.
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[ CLIENT SPOTLIGHT ] 350 Delights
We built a tailored ecommerce shop for their custom baked-goods gifts, because templates could not showcase the work.
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World Cup tech news
The Lenovo Referee Cam runs a real-time model that cuts motion blur up to 50 percent, live in all 104 matches.
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Before you go
Next issue: the agentic era of finance, and whether an LLM can build a better World Cup bracket than you.
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