Daily briefing index

Thursday, August 20, 2026

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Morning brief

Z.ai says the parameter race is giving way to post-training scale · World models need planning-aligned geometry, not merely decodable representations

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OpenAI makes concentration of power a first-class AI risk · Meta takes prompt-built games from experiment to US distribution