For our free newsletter this week, we talk about why LLMs won’t led to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
@IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week.
LLMs alone are unlikely to lead to AGI. They primarily predict text and can imitate planning and reasoning
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LLMs alone won’t lead to Artificial General Intelligence
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Claude Sonnet 4.6: Anthropic’s Latest Balanced AI Model
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic’s latest model. It strikes a strong balance of quality, speed, and price for day-to-day work, with robust computer-use capabilities for tool-driven workflows and UI automation. You can try the model in the Poe app on all platforms and in the Poe
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LLM Routing Reduces OpenClaw API Costs by 30-50%
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Solid work here. This LLM routing can slash OpenClaw API costs by smartly assigning tasks to cheaper models like Kimi for simple stuff, saving 30-50% on tokens without losing quality
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Anthropic Rolls Out Claude Sonnet 4.6 with Benchmark Scores and Performance Insights
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BREAKING : ANTHROPIC STARTED ROLLING OUT CLAUDE SONNET 4.6 TO THE USERS! CLAUDE SONNET 4.6 SCORES 72.5% ON OSWORLD COMPUTER USE BENCHMARK. It is expected to be a good model for Cowork tasks, with performance close to Opus 4.6 at a lower price.
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Cohere Tiny Aya: Multilingual AI for Underserved Communities
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The @Cohere_Labs team is pushing the boundaries of multilingual AI with Tiny Aya, empowering researchers, developers, and underserved communities to build in their native languages and beyond.
— Cohere (@cohere) 17 février 2026
And with reliable on‑device offline translation, they’re shaping the future of… https://t.co/FLJqUehodGThe @Cohere_Labs team is pushing the boundaries of multilingual AI with Tiny Aya, empowering researchers, developers, and underserved communities to build in their native languages and beyond. And with reliable on‑device offline translation, they’re shaping the future of
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AI Automates Mail Processing With Single Prompt
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I haven't manually processed a piece of mail in weeks. One prompt handles all of it. → categorizes each piece of mail → compares my bills to cheaper providers → flags deadlines → queues payments → calendars events and RSVPs → auto-sorts junk (unless the
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Tracing ChatGPT’s Awkward Japanese with SoftMatcha 2
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A perfect community use case for SoftMatcha 2: tracing the source of the weirdness in an LLM's Japanese. softmatcha.github.io/v2/ mora (@moratorium08) I felt something off about the Japanese phrase "〜という整理になります" that ChatGPT uses frequently, so I tried searching for examples using the recently popular SoftMatcha 2. It only matched in hearing/interview sentences. I wonder if it's legal or bureaucratic jargon (or is it a corpus issue?) — https://nitter.net/moratorium08/status/2023547512490185087#m [Translated from EN to English]
→ View original post on X — @_yutaroyamada, 2026-02-17 14:14 UTC
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AI and Data Analytics Reshape Financial Services Industry
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We’re proud to be sponsoring CDAO Financial Services 2026! Join us in New York on February 18–19 as industry leaders explore how data, analytics, and AI are reshaping financial services—from risk and compliance to innovation and customer experience. Stop by our booth.
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Codex AI Model Receives 60% Inference Speed Improvement
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have you given codex a shot? would be interested in your feedback on how we can make it better. in the past couple weeks we've added roughly made inference ~60% faster across the board in codex!
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RAG is an Ecosystem, Not a Single Tool
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This is one of the cleanest visual summaries of a production-grade RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) stack I’ve seen. What it highlights clearly is an often-ignored reality:
RAG is not a single tool — it’s an ecosystem. A solid RAG system spans multiple, interchangeable