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Welcome to the new Brew & AI.
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what would actually make this newsletter more useful for you – more actionable, more interactive, and packed with things you can immediately apply, not just read and forget.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 as a major upgrade aimed at going beyond coding into broader knowledge work such as document analysis, spreadsheets, presentations, financial modeling, and search. The model features a one‑million token context window in beta and improved ability to handle long-horizon tasks, positioning it as a direct competitor in enterprise-grade productivity and research workflows.​

This launch underscores a broader shift from single‑prompt chatbots toward persistent AI “teammates” that can manage complex, multi‑step workloads over large data. ​

OpenAI introduced Frontier, a service that lets enterprises build, orchestrate, and monitor AI agents plugged into their existing infrastructure and third‑party systems. Framed as an “intelligence layer,” Frontier is designed to help companies activate agents across workflows rather than just embedding standalone chat interfaces, with emphasis on reliability, governance, and integration.​

This move signals OpenAI’s push deeper into the application layer, directly targeting the emerging market for agentic platforms used in operations, customer support, and internal tooling. ​

Alphabet posted a record quarter, crossing 400 billion dollars in annual revenue for the first time, with Q4 2025 revenue at 113.8 billion dollars (up 18% year‑on‑year) and EPS at 2.82 dollars, driven by strong growth in Search, YouTube and a surging Google Cloud business.

CEO Sundar Pichai framed it as a “tremendous quarter” and highlighted that products built on Alphabet’s generative AI models are now a meaningful revenue engine rather than an experiment.

In What’s Trending on Social, I’ll surface the most interesting AI takes, memes, debates, and hot posts bubbling up across X, LinkedIn, and beyond - so you don’t have to doomscroll to stay in the loop.

📰 A viral NDTV‑covered meme of President Donald Trump walking with a penguin in an AI‑generated Greenland image, shared by the White House and remixed endlessly.

🎥 Kling AI’s teaser for the Kling 3.0 multimodal “everyone a director” model, showing off wild video‑generation capabilities on X

✍ A widely shared LinkedIn “Algorithm Report 2026” post breaking down why personal profiles massively outperform company pages on reach and engagement

Lately I’ve felt that AI imagery has quietly crossed a line where, for most people and most use cases, it’s almost indistinguishable from “real” non‑AI artwork or photos.

To test that, I asked an image model to generate a movie poster for Anaconda and put it side‑by‑side with the original - now I’m curious if you can actually tell which one is AI‑made and which one is the real thing.

(Answer at the end)

Each week in Weekly Reads, I’ll share a short list of the most insightful, no‑nonsense AI articles I’ve found across the internet - pieces that explain what’s happening, why it matters, and how you can actually use it.

If you missed my writing, here’s everything I’ve done - bite‑sized, practical, and very AI‑obsessed. Think of this as the “in case you blinked” shelf for my recent posts, threads, and experiments.

✍ Blogs - In-depth articles and insights to expand your AI knowledge

🛠 Tools - Discover powerful AI tools to enhance your workflow

💭 Tips - Practical tips and tricks to make your AI journey smoother

AI or not - I generated the first one, the second one is the official poster. Quite close aren’t they

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