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"OpenAI's $122B Bet, Gemma 4 Goes Open " - Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 47 | Mar 28–Apr 3

Apr 4, 2026

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"OpenAI's $122B Bet, Gemma 4 Goes Open " - Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 47 | Mar 28–Apr 3

OpenAI closes the biggest funding round in history at $852B. Spud is weeks away. Google drops Gemma 4 open-source. And Q1 2026 VC hit $297B — 81% AI.

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"Spud Is Coming, SoftBank Bets $500B on Ohio & The Pentagon vs. Anthropic" - Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 46 | Mar 21–27

Mar 30, 2026

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"Spud Is Coming, SoftBank Bets $500B on Ohio & The Pentagon vs. Anthropic" - Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 46 | Mar 21–27

OpenAI's next model "Spud" is almost here. SoftBank just committed $500B to Ohio AI infrastructure. A federal judge blocked the Pentagon's Anthropic ban. OpenAI is doubling its workforce. And the White House just dropped a national AI legislative framework.

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"GTC Delivered: Vera Rubin Goes Live, OpenAI Doubles Down on Agents & The $1 Trillion AI Economy" - Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 45 | Mar 14–20

Mar 21, 2026

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"GTC Delivered: Vera Rubin Goes Live, OpenAI Doubles Down on Agents & The $1 Trillion AI Economy" - Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 45 | Mar 14–20

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin is in production. GPT-5.4 mini & nano just launched. Anthropic is winning enterprise. Google Gemini 3.1 doubled its reasoning scores. And Jensen Huang just declared a $1 trillion AI economy.

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"GTC Week is Here: NVIDIA's Vera Rubin Reveal, Claude Rewrites Security & The Trust War Between AI and the Pentagon" - Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 44 | Mar 7–13

Mar 14, 2026

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"GTC Week is Here: NVIDIA's Vera Rubin Reveal, Claude Rewrites Security & The Trust War Between AI and the Pentagon" - Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 44 | Mar 7–13

NVIDIA GTC 2026 countdown begins with Vera Rubin on the horizon. Anthropic's Claude Code just found 500+ security vulnerabilities — in minutes. OpenAI is renegotiating its Pentagon deal. And xAI's Grok 4.20 just went multi-agent. The trust layer is becoming the new battleground.

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Cahn Studios
"When AI Takes Sides: Anthropic vs. the Pentagon, Claude's Rise & The Tools Rewriting the Rules" - Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 43 | Feb 28–Mar 6

Mar 6, 2026

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"When AI Takes Sides: Anthropic vs. the Pentagon, Claude's Rise & The Tools Rewriting the Rules" - Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 43 | Feb 28–Mar 6

Anthropic drew a line in the sand with the Pentagon. ChatGPT users are jumping ship to Claude. And the tools rebuilding the creative economy just got smarter.

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Cahn Studios
"India's AI Moment, $500K Film Prize, Figma's Design Revolution & the App That Builds Itself" Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 41 | Feb 14–20

Feb 21, 2026

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"India's AI Moment, $500K Film Prize, Figma's Design Revolution & the App That Builds Itself" Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 41 | Feb 14–20

India took center stage. Figma + Anthropic just changed how designers and devs work together. And DeepAgent ships your whole app so you don't have to.

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"Claude Opus 4.6 ships, ElevenLabs hits $11B, Anthropic's safety chief walks" Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 40 | Feb 7–13

Feb 14, 2026

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"Claude Opus 4.6 ships, ElevenLabs hits $11B, Anthropic's safety chief walks" Cahn's AI Canvas #Ed. 40 | Feb 7–13

Anthropic shipped its smartest model yet and lost its safety chief. Voice AI hit $11B. And Waymo bet $16B on robotaxis going global.

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From Playable Worlds to AI Coworkers: The Week the Sandbox Expanded - Cahn’s AI Canvas #Ed. 39 | Jan 29– Feb 06

Feb 7, 2026

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From Playable Worlds to AI Coworkers: The Week the Sandbox Expanded - Cahn’s AI Canvas #Ed. 39 | Jan 29– Feb 06

Google Genie 3 creates infinite interactive worlds. Anthropic upgrades Opus for the agent war. OpenAI Frontier & Codex take on the desktop.

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Cahn Studios
Nvidia swallows Groq for $20B, Apple-Google Gemini deal shocks + real-time inference wars                                                          Cahn’s AI Canvas #Ed. 37 | Jan 16-23

Jan 24, 2026

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10 min read

Nvidia swallows Groq for $20B, Apple-Google Gemini deal shocks + real-time inference wars Cahn’s AI Canvas #Ed. 37 | Jan 16-23

OpenAI's Jony Ive device drops H2 2026. Davos leaks what matters. Apple ditches solo AI. Build before the hardware wave hits.

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AI Tools and Updates

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Voice AI’s $380M Sprint — What Builders Ship Now Cahn’s AI CANVAS #Ed 36 Jan 10–16, 2026

Jan 17, 2026

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Voice AI’s $380M Sprint — What Builders Ship Now Cahn’s AI CANVAS #Ed 36 Jan 10–16, 2026

Use voice for input, not navigation. Benchmarks + playbook inside.

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AI Interfaces Shift: Conversation & Cost Reshape Tech Landscape in 2026!                                                          Cahn’s AI Canvas #Ed. 35 | Jan 3–9

Jan 10, 2026

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AI Interfaces Shift: Conversation & Cost Reshape Tech Landscape in 2026! Cahn’s AI Canvas #Ed. 35 | Jan 3–9

For builders and creators overwhelmed by AI hype — focused on what actually matters.

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What Actually Worked in AI in 2025 — Your 2026 PlaybookCahn’s AI Canvas                             #Edition 34 (Dec 27 – Jan 2, New Year Special)

Jan 3, 2026

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What Actually Worked in AI in 2025 — Your 2026 PlaybookCahn’s AI Canvas #Edition 34 (Dec 27 – Jan 2, New Year Special)

This week, AI took a victory lap on a year where agents left the lab, AI glasses hit the street, and enterprises finally got serious about guardrails. Treat this issue as your 2026 checklist—what actually worked in 2025, and where to double‐down before everyone else catches up.

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2025: The Year AI Moved In

Dec 21, 2025

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10 min read

2025: The Year AI Moved In

2026 Playbook: Build Agents that Bend a Graph - all this and more in Edition #34 — AI × Creativity by Cahn Studios

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"Shopping Wars Begin; Harvey Hits $8B"                                                                      #Edition 32 (Nov 29- Dec 5)

Dec 6, 2025

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"Shopping Wars Begin; Harvey Hits $8B" #Edition 32 (Nov 29- Dec 5)

This week, ChatGPT turns chat into checkout, Ironwood challenges Nvidia, DeepSeek V3.2 nears GPT-5 for less, Genesis targets a Manhattan Project for science.

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"Meta SAM 3 & The Creator Economy Heatup"                                                       Cahn's AI Canvas #Edition 31 (Nov 21 - Nov 28)

Nov 29, 2025

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"Meta SAM 3 & The Creator Economy Heatup" Cahn's AI Canvas #Edition 31 (Nov 21 - Nov 28)

This week, the partnerships went big, and the “creative vs. compute” debate hit prime time.

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Cahn Studios
Gemini 3 Lands & The Model Wars Heat Up Cahn's AI Canvas                          #Edition 30 (Nov 14 - Nov 21)

Nov 22, 2025

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Gemini 3 Lands & The Model Wars Heat Up Cahn's AI Canvas #Edition 30 (Nov 14 - Nov 21)

This week, Google dropped Gemini 3, OpenAI shipped GPT-5.1, Grok evolved, and the model wars shifted from hype to live benchmarks.

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Cahn Studios
Giant Valuations & Gemini Deals Cahn's AI Canvas #Edition 29 (Nov 7 - Nov 14)

Nov 16, 2025

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Giant Valuations & Gemini Deals Cahn's AI Canvas #Edition 29 (Nov 7 - Nov 14)

This week, government partnerships scaled up, AI valuations exploded, and Google × Apple made “trillion-parameter” dinner-table vocabulary.

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Cahn Studios
"Control Planes & Candy Canes" Cahn's AI Canvas #Edition 28 (Oct 31 - Nov 7)

Nov 7, 2025

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12 min read

"Control Planes & Candy Canes" Cahn's AI Canvas #Edition 28 (Oct 31 - Nov 7)

This week, the partnerships went big, agents got practical, and the “creative vs. compute” debate hit prime time. ⚡️

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Cahn Studios
Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 27 - The Week AI Went Quantum (and Very Expensive)

Oct 31, 2025

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Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 27 - The Week AI Went Quantum (and Very Expensive)

TL;DR: Google proved quantum computers can solve real problems, a 22-year-old's startup hit $10B, ChatGPT Atlas challenges Chrome, PayPal moved into chat commerce, and job cuts accelerated. This was the week the AI race got real—and really expensive. ⚡️

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Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 26

Oct 25, 2025

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9 min read

Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 26

AI Just Broke Out of the Browser. This was the week the "AI-in-a-tab" era officially died.

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Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 25

Oct 18, 2025

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9 min read

Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 25

Your 2-minute download on everything shaping the future of AI — from self-evolving models and $100B chip deals to apps that turn your sketches into cinema.

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Cahn Studios
Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 24

Oct 11, 2025

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9 min read

Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 24

The theme this week was platforms and power. The Week where AI Became a Platform

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Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 23

Oct 4, 2025

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9 min read

Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 23

AI is no longer a cool demo; it’s a physical entity. This was the week the simulation shattered.

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Cahn Studios
Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 22

Sep 27, 2025

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Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 22

This was the week AI broke out of the chat window. It’s no longer a tool you visit; it’s an active intelligence layer that blurred the line between AI Hollywood, the classroom, and your phone screen. It now lives in your browser and on your social feeds.

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Cahn Studios
Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 21

Sep 20, 2025

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8 min read

Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 21

This week felt like three months of news crammed into seven days.

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