The Weekly Ship · Issue 001

May 8 – May 15, 2026

The lead · This week

Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4, Its ‘Most Capable’ Open-Source AI Models

Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, a family of open-source AI models including 26B MoE and 31B Dense variants, outperforming larger competitors and aimed at advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.

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Latent Space

Codex Rises, Claude Meters Programmatic Usage

a quiet day lets us report on a long trend of the major coding agents

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Scaling Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber

OpenAI releases GPT-5.

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The Decoder

Deepmind reinvents mouse cursor for AI era with pointer engineering

Pointer Engineering: Deepmind wants to turn the mouse cursor into the key variable in context engineering.

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AntAngelMed open-source medical model reaches 103B parameters

Researchers release AntAngelMed, a 103B-parameter open-source medical LLM using a 1/32 activation-ratio MoE architecture with only 6.

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Thinking Machines Lab Ships First Model With 200ms Real-Time Interaction

Thinking Machines Lab released TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B parameter multimodal interaction model with 200ms real-time processing for audio, video, and text.

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OpenAI launches advanced AI voice assistant models with new API models

Exa — broad AI news discovery · 02:00:00

MiniMax-01 Open Source: New Architecture Ushers in Agent Era

Exa — broad AI news discovery · 02:11:39

Introducing Grok Build | xAI

xAI — News · 20:00:05

Nous Research speeds up LLM pre-training by 2.5x with token

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Computer brings data science to every team

Perplexity — Blog · 02:00:00

Fastino Labs open-sources GLiGuard, 300M-parameter safety model

MarkTechPost · 22:41:13

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Introduces Interaction Models: A Native Multimodal Architecture for Real-Time Human-AI Collaboration

MarkTechPost · 11:21:33

Perceptron AI launches physical AI model to rival frontier labs

Exa — broad AI news discovery · 17:30:00

Tilde Research Introduces Aurora: A Leverage-Aware Optimizer ...

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OpenAI launches Daybreak, its AI security initiative

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The Weekly Ship · Issue 001 · shipfeed.fyi

May 8 – May 15, 2026