Last Week in Plain English
Sunil SandhuA weekly dose of tech news, a fascinating global news roundup, with a few unique stories mixed into the concoction.
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GPT-5.6 Is Here, but the US Gov Decides Who Gets to Use It.
Sunil here.
This week is all about the AI cold war in full bloom. All the big stories are about the same phenomenon from a different perspective:
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Governments are restricting access.
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Frontier AI labs are accusing rivals of copyin...
Vercel's Eve Demystified - The Next.js for AI Agents?
Sunil here. A big week for agentic AI.
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Vercel launched the Next.js for AI agents and open-sourced it — we analyze it in depth in this issue.
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Meanwhile, the W3C are still ironing out the protocol for how agents act on the web — bu...
US Government Shuts Down Anthropic's Fable and Mythos
The US government just pulled Anthropic's Fable 5 offline in 72 hours, globally. Here's why open-weight AI is the only real answer to that kind of dependency.
Sunil here.
Google Wants to Buy Your Private Repos for AI Training.
What happens when public data isn't enough to train a competitive AI model? This week, we cover Google, see whether AGENTS.md actually helps, and more.
Sunil here.
AI Hasn’t Killed Indie Devs. It Has FINALLY Made Them Viable
How Claude Opus 4.8, WebMCP, Devin, and AI coding agents are changing software development for indie devs by eliminating execution as the bottleneck.
Sunil here.
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Software Engineer turned Serial Entrepreneur. I write a highly opinionated weekly roundup of the week in tech, programming, software development, and AI. My company, In Plain English, empowers people with accessible, educational media.
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