--- type: "newsletter" title: "Steampunk AI" handle: "steampunkai" owner: "Steven Willmott (@njyx)" canonical_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai" markdown_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai.md" archive_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/archive" chat_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/chat" articles_total: 173 articles_listed: 20 --- # Steampunk AI A weekly newsletter on the latest AI stories, plus the occasional in-depth analysis. ## Recent articles The 20 most recent of 173 published articles. Full index: https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/archive.md - 2026-09-20 - [AI Capex, AI Opex (No, This Is Not A Post About Data Centers)](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/ai-capex-ai-opex-no-this-is-not-a-post-about-data-centers) - AI agents are amazing, but do you ever get that niggling feeling that maybe there is a better way? This article puts its finger on a key distinction between types of agent spend. - 2026-09-19 - [Weekly Links: Jev, Priests, Monks, and Replacing Sandboxes with Fences](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-jev-priests-monks-and-replacing-sandboxes-with) - The release of Jev is something qualitatively new in LLMs. There will be a lot of use cases for this. In other news, the pause debate rumbles on, and Anthropic picks Accenture for AI Audits. - 2026-09-12 - [Weekly Links: AI Alignment, Pacing, and Two Models of Personal Agents](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-ai-alignment-pacing-and-two-models-of-personal) - AI Alignment and pacing the frontier take center stage this week. - 2026-09-05 - [Weekly Links: Astra, Agent Civilizations, and an AI Jobs Boom?](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-astra-agent-civilizations-and-an-ai-jobs-boom) - OpenAI releases ChatGPT 6.0, AI adds 1M jobs to the US Economy, and agent collaboration goes online. - 2026-08-30 - [Weekly Links: Hugging Face, AI Takeover, and on Writing with AI](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-hugging-face-ai-takeover-and-on-writing-with-ai) - AI writing by Tim O'Reily, Hugging face to be acquired by NVIDIA, and predictions of AI takeover of society. - 2026-08-23 - [Weekly Links: The OpenRouter Singularity, Anthropic hits $65B ARR, and Higgsfield raises $400M](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-the-openrouter-singularity-anthropic-hits-65b-a) - Robots break records in China, Anthropic continues super-growth in revenue, and Stripe buys OpenRouter. - 2026-08-16 - [Weekly Links: Watermarking AI, Full Duplex Realtime, and Google's Westinghouse Bet](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-watermarking-ai-full-duplex-realtime-and-google) - Anthropic announced watermarking of content across all of its new models. Google backs off the frontier, and rogue agents can hack your Gym for you. - 2026-08-09 - [Weekly Links: Agent Message Boards, Plugins, and Discoverability](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-agent-message-boards-plugins-and-discoverabilit) - Agents collaborate on message boards to exchange hacks; AI-designed (biological) viruses are now a thing, and we get Agent plugins to clean up MCP + Skills. - 2026-08-02 - [Weekly Links: Ads for AI Agents, The Value of Harnesses, and AI Unbundling](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-ads-for-ai-agents-the-value-of-harnesses-and-ai) - Neuromancer is coming to Apple TV, Time starts serving Ads to AI and European code hosting says no to AI and tries to force Google to unbundle. - 2026-07-25 - [Weekly Post: AI Hacks, Language Bureaucracies, and OpenAI Product Strategy](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-post-ai-hacks-language-bureaucracies-and-openai-produ) - Elon Musk gives humanity 10 years in control, AI Hacks are mind-boggling, and OpenAI launches two new products. - 2026-07-18 - [Weekly Links: AI Euphoria, AI Disclocation, and Upgrading AI Voice Conversations](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-ai-euphoria-ai-disclocation-and-upgrading-ai-vo) - This week: OpenAI's first hardware device was not what you expected, and we found an exoplanet with an atmosphere. On to the main stories: \* Charts of the Week: Software’s Selective Sell-Off. A16Z is - 2026-07-12 - [Weekly Links: Superapps, ASML, and Robot Surgery](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-superapps-asml-and-robot-surgery) - This week: Anthropic tugs at public perception with a large-scale survey, AI makes friends with Fermat's last theorem, and Unitree inexplicably persists in pushing further into robot combat demos. On - 2026-07-05 - [Weekly Links: Loops, OpenAI for Sovereign Wealth, and Space Communications](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-loops-openai-for-sovereign-wealth-and-space-com) - Fable comes back, OpenAI offers the US sovereign wealth fund stock, and Loops take over the discourse. - 2026-06-28 - [Weekly Links: The Flat Curve, Vibecoding Replicas, and Pricing Power](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-the-flat-curve-vibecoding-replicas-and-pricing) - Mythos gets reinstated, but we may be seeing the end of widely shared leading AI models. - 2026-06-20 - [Weekly Links: eCommerce & AI, Economics, and Salesforce Buys Fin](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-ecommerce-ai-economics-and-salesforce-buys-fin) - Salesforce acquires Fin, we need more economic studies of AI impact, and drones now perform sea rescues. - 2026-06-13 - [Weekly Links Special: Anthopric Fable 5 + Mythos 5 Suspensions -- the End of Globaly Accessible AI?](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-special-anthopric-fable-5-mythos-5-suspensions) - Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are pulled as a result of a government order. The long-run consequences could be significant. Are we seeing a step change in the availability of AI? - 2026-06-07 - [Weekly Links: AI Marketing Disasters, Anthropic IPO, and Tips for Agentic Engineering](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-ai-marketing-disasters-anthropic-ipo-and-tips-f) - Anthropic files for IPO and also suggests the world should slow down AI research. High profile errors at Starbucks and Meta suggest the opposite. - 2026-05-30 - [Weekly Links: An Internet for Machines, The Last Technical Interview, and the Microsoft Super App](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-an-internet-for-machines-the-last-technical-int) - Squeezing token spending, and Internet for Machines, and the future of technical interviews. - 2026-05-23 - [Weekly Links: Open Token Use, Provenance, and the Agent Web](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-open-token-use-provenance-and-the-agent-web) - Google shifts to Agents across the board, Spotify enables Universal Music remizes, and the single-person startup. - 2026-05-16 - [Weekly Links: Insight, Software Taxes, and Global AI Competition](https://usecommune.com/n/steampunkai/a/weekly-links-insight-software-taxes-and-global-ai-competitio) - The global AI race heats up, and we discuss whether restrictions make sense. Software taxes are attacked, but they probably make sense for ever more automation coming.