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Ai Weekly

A friendly weekly roundup of what happened in AI — five global stories, then five from Bangladesh — written for readers who want to follow along without the jargon.

August 2026

Weekly AI Roundup: What Happened in AI This Past Week (August 22–28, 2026) Five global AI stories that mattered this week, and five more that hit closer to home in Bangladesh. Globally, this was the week the receipts arrived: OpenAI published a … Ai Weekly 26 min read Weekly AI Roundup: What Happened in AI This Past Week (August 15–21, 2026) Five global AI stories that mattered this week, and five more that hit closer to home in Bangladesh. Globally it was the week the industry both floored the accelerator … Ai Weekly 26 min read Weekly AI Roundup: What Happened in AI This Past Week (August 8–14, 2026) Five global AI stories that mattered this week, and five more that hit closer to home in Bangladesh. Globally it was the week AI infrastructure became a financial … Ai Weekly 25 min read Weekly AI Roundup: What Happened in AI This Past Week (August 1–7, 2026) Five global AI stories that mattered this week, and five more that hit closer to home in Bangladesh. The week opened with an AI model doing frontier mathematics for the … Ai Weekly 25 min read

July 2026

Weekly AI Roundup: What Happened in AI This Past Week (July 25–31, 2026) Five global AI stories that mattered this week, and five more that hit closer to home in Bangladesh. The hyperscalers closed earnings season with numbers that resist … Ai Weekly 24 min read Weekly AI Roundup: What Happened in AI This Past Week (July 18–24, 2026) Five global AI stories that mattered this week, and five more that hit closer to home in Bangladesh. It was Big Tech's earnings week, and the numbers read like AI's … Ai Weekly 25 min read Weekly AI Roundup: What Happened in AI This Past Week (July 11–17, 2026) Five global AI stories that mattered this week, and five more that hit closer to home in Bangladesh. The week AI's centre of gravity tilted toward Shanghai and silicon: … Ai Weekly 24 min read Weekly AI Roundup: What Happened in AI This Past Week (July 4–10, 2026) Five global AI stories that mattered this week, and five more that hit closer to home in Bangladesh. From OpenAI's GPT-5.6 finally reaching the public and the UN … Ai Weekly 21 min read Weekly AI Roundup: What Happened in AI This Past Week (June 27–July 3, 2026) Five global AI stories that mattered this week, and five more that hit closer to home in Bangladesh. From Anthropic pointing its own models at rare-disease drug discovery … Ai Weekly 21 min read

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