AI Enthusiast Presentations

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  1. Issue 27 · October 9, 2026

    Weekly Briefing: Claude Code Mods — rewrite your coding agent from the inside, plus Haiku 5.5, GPT-6’s Intelligent UI and Google’s AI coworkers

    A feature guide to Claude Code Mods: what they are, a 25-line starter mod, built-in and sample mods, week-one changes, community mods, the security catch and admin controls; Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/$0.50; GPT-6 with Intelligent UI for 1.2B users; Google’s Gemini agent and coworker agents; Claude in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides; Mistral Large 4; Wikimedia’s rogue-agent report; Anthropic’s Cyber Mission and Frontier Academy; Instinct’s $10B; shopping agents; Cincinnati and Ohio AI events; seven new Claude tips.

  2. Issue 26 · October 2, 2026

    Weekly Briefing: Three labs, one price tag — Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon, OpenAI’s Dots, and how Claude uses skills

    Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon all list at $2/$10 per million tokens, yet cost per task ranges from $0.72 to $7.67; Opus 5.5 costs twice as much per token as Sonnet 5.5 but less per task; OpenAI DevDay launches Dots, always-on agents with their own computers, Sign in with ChatGPT and a $500 Pro tier; Gemini 4 Argon goes to cyber defenders first; Microsoft’s Autopilot runs on OpenClaw; Claude Code Projects and Barclays; Anthropic’s IPO prospectus shows $518B in compute commitments and a ~$42B 2025 loss; the White House accord, then the FTC and California move on rogue agents at 100+ organizations; how Claude loads skills; ten new prompting tips.

  3. Issue 25 · September 25, 2026

    Weekly Briefing: Meta Connect builds the full stack — the Muse Charm, the merchant cut, and camera-free Ray-Ban glasses

    Meta Connect 2026 ships the Muse Charm, a 5G keychain pendant needing no phone, and Ray-Ban Meta Audio, Meta’s first camera-free AI glasses from $349 with up to 12 hours of battery; Zuckerberg commits to a small merchant transaction fee instead of ads; Muse hits No. 1 free on the App Store and Google Play with 902K downloads in six days on one isolated Linux VM per user; Instinct raises $250M at $2.5B and shows revoke is not delete; Jev takes the fastest adoption in Vercel AI Gateway history and six clones in 48 hours; the September 22 Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Sol and Luna price war; GPT-6 Astra routes a PCB in KiCad; Anthropic’s wet lab and weapons pledge; Plugin4Shell.

  4. Issue 24 · September 18, 2026

    Weekly Briefing: Amodei asks the frontier to slow down, Jev decides instead of writing, MidwestCon builds for intelligence abundance

    Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" is cosigned by Altman, Hassabis and Musk; embedded evaluators, capability checkpoints and limits on recursive self-improvement; TypeSafe AI ships Jev, a System One Model returning typed decisions in 70–500ms at $0.042/Mtok with free output and waitlist signup; MidwestCon 2026 in Cincinnati; six Claude Code keyboard shortcuts.

  9. Issue 15 · June 5, 2026

    Weekly Briefing: June 5, 2026

    The weekly AI enthusiast briefing covering frontier model, agentic AI, developer tooling, and regulation developments.

  14. Issue 10 · Apr 2026

    Claude Leaks: Lessons and What's Next

    The Claude Code leak, Project Glasswing, Managed Agents, Hive, Canopy, Brainpower, Glade, Beam, and the autonomous agent roadmap.

  15. Issue 09 · Mar 2026

    Enterprise and Mobile Edition

    Trellis governance middleware for Claude Code, hooks, context preservation, cost visibility, SSH MCP, Hive orchestration, and Cincinnati AI Literacy Day events.

  17. Issue 07 · Mar 2026

    The Easy Button

    AI Skills and MCP connections for enterprise IT ticket triage, incident resolution, device validation, and continuous learning.

  18. Issue 06 · Mar 2026

    Local AI Models on Apple Silicon

    Local model comparison across Mac tiers, RAM after macOS overhead, tokens per second by memory bandwidth, and M5 Max/Ultra analysis.

  19. Issue 05 · Mar 2026

    AI Literacy Day: Developer Edition

    Coding harnesses, context windows, token economics, agentic coding, MCP, skills, and practical developer workflow guidance.

  20. Issue 04 · Mar 2026

    AI Literacy Day: AI 101

    AI terminology, model families, open versus closed models, prompt engineering, and practical AI usage foundations.

  21. Issue 03 · Mar 2026

    Real Application Edition

    Perplexity Comet for testing, overnight legacy upgrades, Hive orchestration, AI safeguarding, and context window lessons.

  22. Issue 02 · Mar 2026

    Workflow Edition, Part 2

    Claude Hub, Gas Town, Hive orchestration, Kanban for agents, Claude Code background work, Cowork, and desktop scheduling.

  23. Issue 01 · Feb 2026

    Workflow Edition

    Skills, automation, MCP servers, OpenClaw, Claude Code workflows, multi-session coding, and the Cincinnati AI community.

  24. Guide · September 18, 2026

    Running Models Locally — From Your Laptop to the Enterprise

    Ollama in five minutes; picking between Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.8-27B and what each costs in GPU memory; Hugging Face, GGUF and MLX; llama.cpp vs MLX vs vLLM; Open WebUI, AnythingLLM and LM Studio; LiteLLM for per-person keys, budgets and observability; pointing Claude Code and the Codex CLI at a self-hosted model; DeepSeek Harness, OpenClaw and Hermes; and a four-rung ladder from one laptop to an enterprise deployment.

  25. Class · Aug 2026

    Windows → macOS — Migration Class

    A 50-slide hands-on class for moving from Windows to a Mac: settings mapped, installing apps, printing, Mission Control and Spaces, the Unix half, backups and Migration Assistant.

  26. Reference · Mar 2026

    Claude Code Skills Directory

    Complete listing of installed Claude Code skills, plugins, commands, invocation patterns, examples, and install information.