The AI Practitioner Brief

by Lina Faik

Stay up to date with the latest AI news, product launches, research breakthroughs, and industry shifts, curated for AI practitioners. aipractitioner.substack.com

Episodes

  1. 2d ago

    Weights in the Silicon — August 7, 2026

    A chip startup claims 48x faster inference by etching model weights into silicon. A capable model just became free and unlimited for anyone with a browser. Faster hardware, cheaper access, opposite directions. We go through the AMD-Taalas deal and what model-specific silicon means for inference, the GPT-5.6 Luna and Sol split and why you should test your workloads before your next demo, Meta's preprint on multimodal training at 5% of typical compute, and the GitHub Actions outage that broke CI pipelines across the industry today. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aipractitioner.substack.com

    Weights in the Silicon — August 7, 2026

  2. 3d ago

    Jeff Dean's Recursive Bet — August 6, 2026

    Jeff Dean out of Google after 27 years, co-founding Discovery Loop to automate the research cycle itself. Anthropic announces custom silicon with a 50% inference cost target, the same day. Same ambition, different levers. We go through what recursive self-improvement actually means, why inference cost is the ceiling on every autonomous agent today, what Meta's Muse Code does differently in its 24-hour beta, a real-time multimodal model from ByteDance, Cloudflare's open-source agent environment, and a passkey flaw breaking Apple's Private Relay on iOS. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aipractitioner.substack.com

    Jeff Dean's Recursive Bet — August 6, 2026
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