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I'm Curtis. I've spent nineteen years building technology systems, the last several of them designing AI architectures for large public-sector customers, and I'm finishing a PhD on how language models behave. Every morning I read the entire AI feed so you don't have to, and send three stories with one honest line each on what they change. It's free, and it stays free.

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Model launches, regulation, funding, and the platform moves that will change how you work. Three items, never thirty.

What it changes for you

Each story gets one plain-English line on the practical consequence, written by someone who builds with these tools every day.

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Claude Opus 5.52M ctx · open: no
GPT-6-Sol1M ctx · open: no
Llama 70B (next)128K ctx · open: yes
Gemma 3 27B128K ctx · open: yes
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