Archive - Towards AI Newsletter

Why we’re taking more time with the book

More on agents, evaluations, coding workflows, and guidance we think AI engineers will need most in 2026.

Oct 7 • Louie Peters, Louis-François Bouchard, and Towards AI

TAI #225: OpenAI’s DevDay: Cheaper Intelligence, Unfinished Agents

Also, Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-6.1 Sol, Dots, NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB, Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, and Cohere Embed 5.

Oct 6 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

September 2026

TAI #224: Personal Agents Get Their Own Computers

Also, Instinct’s $1bn raise, Opus and Sonnet 5.5, Grok Bot, Claude Tag in Slack, and OpenAI DevDay.

Sep 29 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #223:Opus 5.5, Cheaper GPT-6 and Agents at Dreamforce

Also, TypeSafe's Jev, shared agent work in Slack, AI safety and meeting Sam Altman

Sep 24 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #222: Pacing the Frontier Could Slow Superintelligence and Speed Up AI for Enterprise Work

Also, Deepseek v4.1-Flash, ChatGPT Images 2.5, Meta Muse, AlphaGenome Atlas, and more.

Sep 15 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #221: GPT-6 Astra release, Navier-Stokes solution, and Towards AI becomes an OpenAI Select Partner

Also, Fable 5.1, Gemini Flash 3.8, Muse Flash 1.3, and more!

Sep 9 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

Help us write the AI engineering book you needed

Our second book, AI Engineering for Production, launches October 20

Sep 7 • Towards AI

TAI #220: The Next Models Will Change How We Work…Again! Take AI Agent Swarms Seriously

Also, Dwarkesh’s agent “civilizations”, Omni 1.1 Flash, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, GLM-5.3-Flash, and more.

Sep 1 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

August 2026

TAI #219: AI, Cancer and the Future of Personalized Medicine

Also, Nvidia’s AVO Agent, GPT Sol 20% price cut, Deepseek’s multimodal V4-flash and more

Aug 26 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #218: Enterprise AI Use Is Becoming More Uneven

Also, Grok 4.6 competes at the frontier, GPT-5.6 Sol runs at 14 times Standard speed, Gemini Flash 3.7 & more.

Aug 19 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #217: AI Agents Are Finding Attack Paths We Never Approved

Also, Meta’s return to open weight with Muse Glimmer and Spark 1.2, DeepMind leadership reshuffle & more!

Aug 11 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

New from Towards AI: engineering mentorship for AI builders

15 senior AI engineers answering your questions. Here's why we built it.

Aug 5 • Louie Peters, Louis-François Bouchard, and Towards AI

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