# ai weekly (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ai weekly. Page: Feed: --- ## [Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: August 10 to 18, 2026](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-data-lakehouse-weekly-august-bb3) _2026-08-21 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ The lakehouse community spent this week deciding what gets carried forward and what gets left behind. ## [AI Weekly: Four Frontier Models in Four Days](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/ai-weekly-four-frontier-models-in) _2026-08-20 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ Week of August 11 to 18, 2026 ## [Claude Design can make beautiful slide decks](https://khemaridh.substack.com/p/claude-design-can-make-beautiful) _2026-08-20 · Khe Hy · Future-Proof Your Career with AI_ A repeatable approach for a tedious task ## [Agentic AI Weekly | Berkeley RDI | August 19, 2026](https://berkeleyrdi.substack.com/p/agentic-ai-weekly-berkeley-rdi-august-330) _2026-08-19 · Berkeley RDI · Agentic AI Weekly_ Building the Systems Behind AI Agents | Rethinking the Future of Software Engineering | Key Developments Across the AI Frontier ## [Migrating to Apache Iceberg: Strategies for Every Source System](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/migrating-to-apache-iceberg-strategies) _2026-08-19 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This is Part 15, the final article of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 14 covered hands-on Dremio Cloud. ## [Hands-On with Apache Iceberg Using Dremio Cloud](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/hands-on-with-apache-iceberg-using) _2026-08-18 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This is Part 14 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 13 covered streaming approaches. ## [Context is data, and nobody is asking who owns it](https://artificialcode.substack.com/p/context-is-data-and-nobody-is-asking) _2026-08-17 · Stefano Maestri · Artificial Code_ 🔗 Learn more about me, my work and how to stay in touch: maeste.it: personal bio, projects and social links. ## [Can AI beat the S&P 500?](https://khemaridh.substack.com/p/can-ai-beat-the-s-and-p-500) _2026-08-16 · Khe Hy · Future-Proof Your Career with AI_ AI Weekly Round-Up #46: Grok launches a personal agent and creating verifiable AI for financial services ## [The Plan and the Worker: Two Open Specifications for Agent Harnesses](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/the-plan-and-the-worker-two-open) _2026-08-14 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ Every agent harness solves the same two problems, and almost every one of them solves both privately. ## [Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: August 5 - August 12, 2026](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-data-lakehouse-weekly-august) _2026-08-14 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This Week at a Glance ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5vbuINzjtk7l) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [AI Weekly: GPT-5.6-Cyber, Muse Glimmer, and the Agent Browser](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/ai-weekly-gpt-56-cyber-muse-glimmer) _2026-08-13 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ Week of August 5 to August 12, 2026 ## [ChatGPT voice just got a huge upgrade](https://khemaridh.substack.com/p/chatgpt-voice-just-got-a-huge-upgrade) _2026-08-13 · Khe Hy · Future-Proof Your Career with AI_ The movie "Her" finally comes to your smartphone ## [Agentic AI Weekly | Berkeley RDI | August 12, 2026](https://berkeleyrdi.substack.com/p/agentic-ai-weekly-berkeley-rdi-august) _2026-08-12 · Berkeley RDI · Agentic AI Weekly_ Agentic AI Summit 2026 Recap | Five Shifts Defining the Future of Agentic AI | Key Developments Across the Agentic AI Ecosystem ## [Approaches to Streaming Data into Apache Iceberg Tables](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/approaches-to-streaming-data-into) _2026-08-11 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This is Part 13 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 12 covered Python and MPP engines. ## [OpenAI delays GPT-6 amid agent swarm cybersecurity incident](https://handyai.substack.com/p/openai-delays-gpt-6-amid-agent-swarm) _2026-08-10 · Jake Handy · Handy AI_ AI Weekly Update - August 10, 2026 ## [Apache Arrow Flight and ADBC, and Why Database Connectivity Finally Went Columnar](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-arrow-flight-and-adbc-and) _2026-08-10 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ A data scientist runs a query against a warehouse. ## [Agents improve themselves, but who verifies the harness that rewrites itself?](https://artificialcode.substack.com/p/agents-improve-themselves-but-who) _2026-08-10 · Stefano Maestri · Artificial Code_ 🔗 Learn more about me, my work and how to stay in touch: maeste.it: personal bio, projects and social links. ## [How Bridgewater built an "AI analyst"](https://khemaridh.substack.com/p/how-bridgewater-built-an-ai-analyst) _2026-08-09 · Khe Hy · Future-Proof Your Career with AI_ AI Weekly Round-Up #45: ChatGPT advanced voice mode and simplifying your skills ## [Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: July 29 to August 5, 2026](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-data-lakehouse-weekly-july-7b2) _2026-08-07 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This was a week of decisions. ## [How to unleash a swarm of AI agents](https://khemaridh.substack.com/p/how-to-unleash-a-swarm-of-ai-agents) _2026-08-06 · Khe Hy · Future-Proof Your Career with AI_ Buckle up, it's going to cost you some tokens ## [Know before it drops (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZH4MaxtEDk3j) _2026-08-06 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a show, artist, genre or rocket and get notified before release ## [AI Weekly: The Week Frontier Pricing Broke](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/ai-weekly-the-week-frontier-pricing) _2026-08-06 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ Two of the largest models ever released shipped inside five days of each other, and one of them costs a quarter of what the leader charges. ## [Apache Polaris 1.7.0 and the Quiet Work of Making a Catalog Trustworthy](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-polaris-170-and-the-quiet) _2026-08-04 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ A Spark job commits a table update. ## [Using Apache Iceberg with Python and MPP Query Engines](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/using-apache-iceberg-with-python) _2026-08-04 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This is Part 12 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 11 covered metadata tables. ## [OpenAI's next model solves ten open problems in math and science](https://handyai.substack.com/p/openais-next-model-solves-ten-open) _2026-08-03 · Jake Handy · Handy AI_ AI Weekly Update - August 3, 2026 ## [Training juniors in the AI era: the bottom-up apprenticeship is over](https://artificialcode.substack.com/p/training-juniors-in-the-ai-era-the) _2026-08-03 · Stefano Maestri · Artificial Code_ 🔗 Learn more about me, my work and how to stay in touch: maeste.it: personal bio, projects and social links. ## [AI is creating more work for lawyers](https://khemaridh.substack.com/p/ai-is-creating-more-work-for-lawyers) _2026-08-02 · Khe Hy · Future-Proof Your Career with AI_ AI Weekly Round-Up #44: Ambient voice mode for Codex and "ontologies" for agents ## [File Encryption for the Lakehouse: The Terminology, the Machinery, and the Hard Problem of Interoperable Encrypted Tables](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/file-encryption-for-the-lakehouse) _2026-07-31 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ For years, the open lakehouse had an honest gap that practitioners whispered about and slide decks skipped: encryption. ## [Are AI security breaches just fancy marketing?](https://handyai.substack.com/p/are-ai-security-breaches-just-fancy) _2026-07-31 · Jake Handy · Handy AI_ What’s real, what might be PR, and why it doesn’t much matter which ## [AI Weekly: Opus 5 Lands, MCP Goes Stateless, and AMD Ships Helios](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/ai-weekly-opus-5-lands-mcp-goes-stateless) _2026-07-31 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ Week of July 22 to July 29, 2026 ## [Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: July 21 to July 29, 2026](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-data-lakehouse-weekly-july-9c1) _2026-07-31 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This was a week where the open lakehouse stack spent most of its energy on contracts. ## [Home Internet From Space (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MgUpv7ceDkho) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ Residential satellite internet that brings connectivity to homes beyond conventional networks ## [A Deep Dive Into File Compression: How Data Gets Smaller, Why Codecs Differ, and What to Actually Use in the Lakehouse](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/a-deep-dive-into-file-compression) _2026-07-30 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ Somewhere in your data platform right now, a single configuration property is quietly deciding a meaningful percentage of your storage bill, your query latency, and your compute spend. ## [Cowork comes to the Cloud](https://khemaridh.substack.com/p/cowork-comes-to-the-cloud) _2026-07-30 · Khe Hy · Future-Proof Your Career with AI_ You can now control Cowork from your mobile device ## [Agentic AI Weekly | Berkeley RDI | July 29, 2026](https://berkeleyrdi.substack.com/p/agentic-ai-weekly-berkeley-rdi-july-ca3) _2026-07-29 · Berkeley RDI · Agentic AI Weekly_ Free Agentic AI Summit Livestream + Full Summit Agenda Now Live | Research Highlight: When Coding Stops Being the Bottleneck ## [A Reader's Guide to My Books: Which One to Pick Up, Depending on What You're Building](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/a-readers-guide-to-my-books-which) _2026-07-29 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ The question I get most often after talks, after podcast episodes, and in newsletter replies is a simple one: where do I start with your books? ## [Apache Iceberg Metadata Tables: Querying the Internals](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-iceberg-metadata-tables-querying) _2026-07-28 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ This is Part 11 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 10 covered maintenance operations. ## [The File Format Renaissance: Parquet, Lance, Vortex, Nimble, BtrBlocks, and the New Physics of Columnar Storage](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/the-file-format-renaissance-parquet) _2026-07-27 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ For a decade, the file format layer was the most settled real estate in data. ## [Harness, intelligence and compositional generalization](https://artificialcode.substack.com/p/harness-intelligence-and-compositional) _2026-07-27 · Stefano Maestri · Artificial Code_ 🔗 Learn more about me, my work and how to stay in touch: maeste.it: personal bio, projects and social links. ## [Jensen makes the case for open source AI](https://khemaridh.substack.com/p/jensen-makes-the-case-for-open-source) _2026-07-26 · Khe Hy · Future-Proof Your Career with AI_ AI Weekly Round-Up #43: Building an enterprise knowledge base and redoing your Claude skills ## [Model Drop: Claude Opus 5](https://handyai.substack.com/p/model-drop-claude-opus-5) _2026-07-24 · Jake Handy · Handy AI_ Anthropic shoots for Fable-class performance at an Opus-class price ## [Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: July 16 to July 23, 2026](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/apache-data-lakehouse-weekly-july-2bb) _2026-07-24 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ The lakehouse community spent this week deciding what belongs in the format and what belongs outside it. ## [Lakehouse Table Formats in 2026: Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Paimon, and DuckLake, How They Work, Where They Stand, and Where They're Going](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/lakehouse-table-formats-in-2026-iceberg) _2026-07-24 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ The table format war is over, and the table formats are not. ## [AI Weekly: MCP Goes Stateless, AMD Ships 2nm Silicon](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/ai-weekly-mcp-goes-stateless-amd) _2026-07-23 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ The plumbing of the AI industry got rebuilt this week. ## [The Filters We Build: How Every New Medium Rewires Our Defenses, From Radio Ads to AI Slop](https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/the-filters-we-build-how-every-new) _2026-07-23 · Alex Merced · Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced_ My grandparents’ generation learned to tune out the radio pitchman. ## [AI is coming for your Slack workspace](https://khemaridh.substack.com/p/ai-is-coming-for-your-slack-workspace) _2026-07-23 · Khe Hy · Future-Proof Your Career with AI_ Claude's Tag feature is a big deal ## [Agentic AI Weekly | Berkeley RDI | July 22, 2026](https://berkeleyrdi.substack.com/p/agentic-ai-weekly-berkeley-rdi-july-393) _2026-07-22 · Berkeley RDI · Agentic AI Weekly_ Agentic AI Summit Agenda Now Live and Tickets are Running Out + Livestream Sign-Up ## [Open models come for Anthropic and OpenAI](https://handyai.substack.com/p/open-models-come-for-anthropic-and) _2026-07-20 · Jake Handy · Handy AI_ AI Weekly Update - July 20, 2026 ## [Kimi K3, third in the world at a quarter of Fable’s cost, and America opens the weights](https://artificialcode.substack.com/p/kimi-k3-third-in-the-world-at-a-quarter) _2026-07-20 · Stefano Maestri · Artificial Code_ 🔗 Learn more about me, my work and how to stay in touch: maeste.it: personal bio, projects and social links. ## [Using ChatGPT 5.6 for knowledge work](https://khemaridh.substack.com/p/using-chatgpt-56-for-knowledge-work) _2026-07-19 · Khe Hy · Future-Proof Your Career with AI_ AI Weekly Round-Up #42: Claude can now send Outlook messages and the impact of Slack "tag" ## [Model Drop: Kimi K3](https://handyai.substack.com/p/model-drop-kimi-k3) _2026-07-16 · Jake Handy · Handy AI_ Moonshot beats Opus-class with open weights ## [6 "primitives" for agentic knowledge work](https://khemaridh.substack.com/p/will-claude-cowork-get-replaced-by) _2026-07-16 · Khe Hy · Future-Proof Your Career with AI_ ChatGPT for Work and Claude Cowork are two peas in a pod