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Patchnotes

What changed in AI, a few times a week. Plain words, with links to the sources.

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Patchnotes: what changed in AI

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Anthropic's IPO filing raises recursive self-improvement, Google's school settings bundle Search with AI, and DeepSeek proposes agents that manage other agents.

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A dense tangle of patch cords across the plugboard of an analog computer
Patch cords on an EAI 580 analog computer, Computer History Museum

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Why Patchnotes

Red and yellow patch wires looped over a punched-card machine plugboard
A wired plugboard: one program, set by hand
A loose curl of paper punched tape on a grey table
Punched tape, the patch you could carry
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On early computers, a patch was a wire you moved by hand to change what the machine did. AI now changes every week, and most of the news is noise. Each issue keeps the few changes that matter, says them plainly, and links to where they came from.

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