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The LLM week, compressed.

A focused weekly brief of the AI model, research, safety, and product updates worth reading. Built from LLMgram's canonical AI Signal pipeline, ranked for source quality, event relevance, and usefulness to builders. Click any item to open its full AI Signal card without leaving LLMgram.

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Google AI · model · May 19, 2026

Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action

At Google I/O we released Gemini 3.5, our latest series of models combining frontier intelligence with action.

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OpenAI · model · May 15, 2026

Databricks brings GPT-5.5 to enterprise agent workflows

Databricks uses GPT-5.5 for enterprise agent workflows after the model set a new state of the art on the OfficeQA Pro benchmark.

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Ethan Mollick · model · May 19, 2026

Also had some early access to Gemini 3.5 Flash. Very fast for a flash model and very capable, though not as powerful as a full frontier model. I added it to th…

Also had some early access to Gemini 3.5 Flash. Very fast for a flash model and very capable, though not as powerful as a full frontier model. I added it to the gallery or procedurally generated one-shot towns (it made one error that it co…

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LessWrong · model · May 16, 2026

Trying to use NLAs to find out how Qwen 2.5 7B does multiplication

Neural language autoencoders were just introduced by Anthropic. In a fascinating paper , they showed that you can take the residual stream activations of a language model and then train two instantiations of that same model (an encoder and…

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Jeff Dean (X) · model · May 19, 2026

Highly capable models that are fast are super important. Our new Gemini 3.5 Flash model is a great mix of fast and capable.

Highly capable models that are fast are super important. Our new Gemini 3.5 Flash model is a great mix of fast and capable. Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) Just off stage at #GoogleIO , some highlights from this morning 🧵 Gemini 3.5 Flash is…

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Google AI (X) · model · May 19, 2026

Today, we launched a brand-new intelligent Search box. Here's what that means: An upgrade to the Search experience with our most advanced Gemini 3.5 models, br…

Today, we launched a brand-new intelligent Search box. Here's what that means: An upgrade to the Search experience with our most advanced Gemini 3.5 models, bringing with them our latest agentic capabilities You can ask across modalities (…

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Bindu Reddy (X) · model · May 19, 2026

OH WOW! GOOGLE FINALLY BECOMES A LEGIT AI COMPANY Gemini 3.5 Flash is Generally Available!! No more preview launches with rate limits!!! This is earth shatteri…

OH WOW! GOOGLE FINALLY BECOMES A LEGIT AI COMPANY Gemini 3.5 Flash is Generally Available!! No more preview launches with rate limits!!! This is earth shattering....😲😲

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DeepMind (X) · model · May 19, 2026

Introducing Gemini 3.5: our newest family of models combining frontier intelligence with real-world action. The first release is 3.5 Flash, our strongest model…

Introducing Gemini 3.5: our newest family of models combining frontier intelligence with real-world action. The first release is 3.5 Flash, our strongest model yet for agents and coding 🧵

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Qwen (X) · model · May 18, 2026

🚀🚀Qwen3.7 Preview lands on Arena ! Here come Qwen3.7-Max-Preview & Qwen3.7-Plus-Preview. Alibaba now #6 lab in Text, #5 in Vision.⚡️⚡️ Can't wait to release Qw…

🚀🚀Qwen3.7 Preview lands on Arena ! Here come Qwen3.7-Max-Preview & Qwen3.7-Plus-Preview. Alibaba now #6 lab in Text, #5 in Vision.⚡️⚡️ Can't wait to release Qwen3.7 series models!Stay tuned! @arena Arena.ai (@arena) Qwen3.7 Preview By @Ali…

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Simon Willison · model · May 14, 2026

datasette-ip-rate-limit 0.1a0

Release: datasette-ip-rate-limit 0.1a0 The datasette.io site was being hammered by poorly-behaved crawlers, so I had Codex (GPT-5.5 xhigh) build a configurable rate limiting plugin to block IPs that were hammering specific areas of the sit…