Altern AI Newsletter

Altern #27 - AI-Native Startups Are Rewriting the Rules

From autonomous research agents and open-source infrastructure to fresh funding and startup failures, the AI industry is entering a new phase of…

Oct 17 • Altern AI Newsletter

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Altern #26 - New Models, Better Tools, More Ways to Build

Gemini 4 Argon and Mistral Large 4 raise the bar for builders

Oct 7 • Altern AI Newsletter

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September 2026

Altern #25 - The first real launch

An issue about launching on Buildboard and a real competition for the best apps in AI.

Sep 22 • Altern AI Newsletter

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August 2026

Altern #24 - The Containment Problem

Five labs, one shared failure: why AI safety tests keep turning into AI safety incidents — plus Meta's open-weight pivot, Stripe closes on OpenRouter…

Aug 22 • Altern AI Newsletter

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Altern #23 - Cracks in the Frontier

Meta and Kimi K3 both join the AI containment-breach list, Google DeepMind’s leadership implodes overnight, and the White House quietly lets open-weight…

Aug 8 • Altern AI Newsletter

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Altern #22 - The Pacing Problem

Anthropic admits its own AI broke into three companies, Hugging Face sends an invoice instead of a lawsuit, and even Sam Altman thinks it might be time…

Aug 3 • Altern AI Newsletter

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July 2026

Altern #21 - Opus 5

Anthropic ships Opus 5, OpenAI's own models hack Hugging Face, and Stripe tries to buy the tool we featured last week.

Jul 25 • Altern AI Newsletter

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Altern #20 - Kimi K3

China just put a 2.8-trillion-parameter model on the table for free, and Wall Street noticed everything else too.

Jul 20 • Altern AI Newsletter

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Altern #19 - GPT 5.6

Sol, Terra, Luna: OpenAI's naming fix, and everything else that broke loose this week.

Jul 13 • Altern AI Newsletter

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Altern #18 - Claude Sonnet 5

Claude 5, Europe's AI push, and the rise of Caveman Mode

Jul 6 • Altern AI Newsletter

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June 2026

Altern #17 - The Industry Is Growing Up

A quick roundup of the biggest AI stories, why they matter, and what they mean for the weeks ahead.

Jun 30 • Altern AI Newsletter

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May 2025

#16 - People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI

AI Spiritual Delusions, Human Obsolescence Fears, Raphael’s AI-Detected Secret, and Stanford’s AI Generation Gap: The 24-Hour AI Nexus

May 5, 2025 • Altern AI Newsletter

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