Monthly Archives: February 2026

ChatGPT-5.3-Codex Is Also Good At Coding

OpenAI is back with a new Codex model, released the same day as Claude Opus 4.6. The headline pitch is it combines the coding skills of GPT-5.2-Codex with the general knowledge and skills of other models, along with extra speed … Continue reading

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AI #155: Welcome to Recursive Self-Improvement

This was the week of Claude Opus 4.6, and also of ChatGPT-5.3-Codex. Both leading models got substantial upgrades, although OpenAI’s is confined to Codex. Once again, the frontier of AI got more advanced, especially for agentic coding but also for … Continue reading

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Claude Opus 4.6 Escalates Things Quickly

Life comes at you increasingly fast. Two months after Claude Opus 4.5 we get a substantial upgrade in Claude Opus 4.6. The same day, we got GPT-5.3-Codex. That used to be something we’d call remarkably fast. It’s probably the new … Continue reading

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Claude Opus 4.6: System Card Part 2: Frontier Alignment

Coverage of Claude Opus 4.6 started yesterday with the mundane alignment and model welfare sections of the model card. Today covers the kinds of safety I think matter most: Sabotage, deception, situational awareness, outside red teaming and most importantly the … Continue reading

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Claude Opus 4.6: System Card Part 1: Mundane Alignment and Model Welfare

Claude Opus 4.6 is here. It was built with and mostly evaluated by Claude. Their headline pitch includes: 1M token context window (in beta) with State of the art retrieval performance. Improved abilities on a range of everyday work tasks. … Continue reading

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Claude Code #4: From The Before Times

Claude Opus 4.6 and agent swarms were announced yesterday. That’s some big upgrades for Claude Code. OpenAI, the competition, offered us GPT-5.3-Codex, and this week gave us an app form of Codex that already has a million active users. That’s … Continue reading

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AI #154: Claw Your Way To The Top

Remember OpenClaw and Moltbook? One might say they already seem a little quaint. So earlier-this-week. That’s the internet having an absurdly short attention span, rather than those events not being important. They were definitely important. They were also early. It … Continue reading

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Kimi K2.5

I had to delay this a little bit, but the results are in and Kimi K2.5 is pretty good. Table of Contents Official Introduction. On Your Marks. Positive Reactions. Skeptical Reactions. Kimi Product Accounts. Agent Swarm. Who Are You? Export … Continue reading

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Unless That Claw Is The Famous OpenClaw

First we must covered Moltbook. Now we can double back and cover OpenClaw. Do you want a generally impowered, initiative-taking AI agent that has access to your various accounts and communicates and does things on your behalf? That depends on … Continue reading

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Welcome to Moltbook

Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit. It was named after a new agent framework that was briefly called Moltbot, was originally Clawdbot and is now OpenClaw. I’ll double back to cover the framework soon. … Continue reading

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