Happy Sunday. This week AI learned to hold a real conversation, Apple took OpenAI to court, and a free Chinese model climbed its way into the top tier for coding. Here's what actually mattered, broken down so it's worth your five minutes. Let's get into it.
This week in tech + AI
OpenAI launched GPT-Live, a voice AI that actually talks like a person. Instead of the old take-turns setup, it listens, thinks and speaks at the same time, and it can translate in real time, search the web mid-conversation and hand tasks off to other AI agents.
Apple sued OpenAI and picked Google to power the new Siri. Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk and Altman spent the weekend trading shots on X, and Apple confirmed the revamped Siri will run on Google's Gemini instead of ChatGPT.
A Chinese open model called Kimi K3 is now one of the best in the world at coding. Beijing's Moonshot AI released it as an open-weight model, meaning anyone can download and run it for free, and it instantly ranks among the top systems for coding and agentic tasks that plan, write, test and fix code across many steps. What it means: the best AI is not only closed and American anymore. Open models from China are catching up fast, and for builders that means serious power for free.
Mira Murati's new lab dropped its first AI model, and the bet behind it is what's interesting. Thinking Machines, founded by OpenAI's former CTO, released Inkling, a free open-weight model that reasons across text, images, audio and video. It is not trying to be the smartest model out there, the whole pitch is that companies can customize it and make it their own for less. Worth watching, since Murati is one of the most respected people in the field.
The first big AI safety report card is out, and nobody passed. The Future of Life Institute graded every major AI lab on safety and the highest score was a C+, given to Anthropic. What it means: even the leaders admit they cannot fully control what they are building yet. Worth keeping in mind while everyone races to ship faster.
On my mind
I think we often forget to appreciate the process of chasing our goals. I keep falling for the same lie. The lie that “I will be happy when XYZ happen”. Hitting 100k followers or 10k per month or whatever. And every time I achieve that goal it feels great for a few hours and then I’m like, okay what’s next? Trapped in this endless cycle of wanting more and trying to one up yourself. And while this is definitely a healthy instinct of us humans to strive to improve and constantly become better, it can be a dangerous mental trap. I haven’t quite figured it out myself but I like to just remind myself sometimes that I used to wish for times like this and to be grateful for everything that happens. In that sense, don’t forget to enjoy the view while climbing the mountain.
More from me
My latest video: My full roadmap for learning to code from scratch in 2026, the exact 5 steps I'd follow with every free resource. Watch here
Recommendation of the week: NASA's L'SPACE Academy, a free virtual program where you design a real space mission with actual NASA scientists. US students only, but if that's you it's a great resume builder and fall applications are open now. Apply here
Tool of the week: The Tool I use every single day for prompting AI. And it’s base version is completely free. Every Link click supports me :)
PRDs by voice. Bug reports by voice. Ship faster.
Dictate acceptance criteria and reproductions inside Cursor or Warp. Wispr Flow auto-tags file names, preserves syntax, and gives you paste-ready text in seconds. 4x faster than typing.
Have a great week,
Chris