Monthly digest
At the end of each month we step back and pick out what actually mattered, with links to our fuller coverage and the primary sources. Always selective.
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August 2026
Local AI in August 2026
August was, above all, an open-weight month: a run of capable models arrived, and an unusual number came under genuinely permissive licences. Around them, the hardware and tooling to run large models locally moved forward too, and local AI kept broadening past language into vision, video, and music. Here is what mattered, and the caveats worth keeping.
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July 2026
Local AI in July 2026
A month defined by two threads: open-weight models continuing to ship under genuinely permissive licences, and Europe's AI rulebook shifting under everyone's feet. Here is what mattered, and why.