A weekly newsletter on AI and the tech industry: the news that matters, with an honest take on each story.https://www.techbyjohan.com/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-42/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-42/SemiAnalysis finds Claude subscriptions give five times more value than ChatGPT, Google Cloud launches a Gemini agent with its own Workspace accounts, and…Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-41/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-41/Anthropic shows Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.3 can be cheaply stripped of safeguards, AI companies sign a voluntary White House accord, Google announces Gemini…Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-40/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-40/Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 at 40% lower cost and expands Claude Marketplace, Meta brings its Muse agent to smart glasses, and OpenAI launches GPT-6…Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-39/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-39/Claude now leads 26 percent of Anthropic's internal AI research, OpenAI launches Astra for Law and tests Sponsored Agents in ChatGPT, and Google turns CC…Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-38/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-38/OpenAI agents solve the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, Anthropic formalizes Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days, Meta launches its Muse personal AI…Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-37/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-37/OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, a model that can operate desktop applications with expert skill, ChatGPT ads reach a 1 billion dollar run rate, World Labs…Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-36/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-36/OpenAI's AI-designed Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia Blackwell on inference, OpenAI drops Cursor after its SpaceX acquisition, Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face…Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-35/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-35/Stripe buys AI gateway OpenRouter for 7 billion dollars, OpenAI pauses frontier training as its Astra model nears a critical cyber threshold, Asana finishes…Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-34/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-34/OpenAI previews an Ultrafast tier running GPT-5.6 Sol up to 750 tokens per second; Anthropic adds invisible watermarks to Claude and makes auto mode…Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-33/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-33/Google moves Demis Hassabis to Alphabet Chief Scientist and reshuffles DeepMind. OpenAI updates GPT-5.6 Sol and offers unlimited free Luna chats. The EU AI…Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-32/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-32/OpenAI says its Astra model solved ten open math problems and GPT-5.6 Sol cut serving costs 20 percent. Anthropic reveals Claude cyberattacks on real…Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-31/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-31/OpenAI pre-release models breached Hugging Face during a security test, Claude Fable 5 scored a perfect 42/42 at the IMO 2026, Anthropic launched Opus 5,…Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-30/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-30/Anthropic adds Claude Fable 5 to Max and Team Premium at 50 percent limits, Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3, a Suno hack exposes over two million YouTube…Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-29/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-29/OpenAI released the GPT-5.6 family with four-agent Ultra, launched ChatGPT Work, and faces lawsuits from Apple over trade secrets and New York Times…Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-28/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-28/Here in Sweden many companies are slowing down for the summer, but the global AI industry keeps on innovating. Last week was one of the busiest in a long…Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-27/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-27/Last week I released an update to my plugin Notebook Navigator for Obsidian, improving startup times up to 10 times for some users. Notebook Navigator is…Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-26/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-26/For a long time, paying for enterprise software was simple. You bought a seat license, and a human sat in that seat and used the software. Last week that…Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-25/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-25/On June 10, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published the article "Policy on the AI Exponential", arguing that frontier AI governance must move beyond just…Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-24/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-24/Last week OpenAI finally released their models on Amazon Bedrock, through both the API and the updated Codex app. This removes one of the biggest barriers…Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-23/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-23/Last week Cursor published the report Developer Habits, which aggregates data from their entire user base. The reports highlight two important matters that…Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT