How AI Changed This Summer

This summer was an extremely weird time in AI.

On the one hand, there was the standard feeling of summer slowdown.

So much of AI usage is driven by people at work and people at work slow down in the summer, getting some much needed rest and R&R and vacation.

At the same time, when it comes to the big issues surrounding AI, this summer was an absolute bonanza.

We kicked off with Fable 5 and Mythos and then the bannings, had a DeepSeek moment when Kimi K3 came out while Fable was still behind U.S. government doors.

We saw data centers become an even bigger issue, in fact, one of the topics du jour for the upcoming US midterms.

And the Hugging Face incident where OpenAI agents escaped containment to hack into Hugging Face is being broadly treated as a warning shot that reflects the very different phase of agents that we're headed into now.

Yet with all of this somehow it all feels like prelude.

So with all of this as we head into the holiday weekend that traditionally ends summer in the United States, let's look back at what changed in AI this summer.

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As I mentioned in yesterday's episode, I am currently traveling and so we are using that chance to catch up on some of the big picture themes.

So let's dig in.