Issue 014 · Thursday, 29 October 2026NewsletterRSS

Vinci Notebook.

Short, sharp notes on AI, software, design and digital marketing — what happened, and why it matters for your business.

The stream

Sunday 18 October

  1. AI

    Reflection Beam: a 501B open model under Apache 2.0

    According to the Hugging Face announcement, Reflection released its first model under Apache 2.0.

Thursday 15 October

  1. AI

    TÜİK: AI usage in Turkey nearly doubled in a single year

    Individual use rose from 19.2% to 37.6%; enterprise adoption reached 14%.

Wednesday 7 October

  1. AI

    Meta ad accounts can now connect to Claude and ChatGPT

    Meta Ads AI Connectors comes with read and write access, so changes are worth checking before approval.

  2. AI

    Claude Code adds Mods: plugins can now change the interface

    Anthropic's 2.1.287 release lets plugins run code inside Claude Code itself.

Sunday 4 October

  1. AI

    OpenAI dots: always-on agents are here

    AI agents with their own computer that work in the background on your behalf are rolling out gradually.

Wednesday 30 September

  1. AI

    Claude 5.5: cost fell, in two different ways

    Opus got a list-price cut; Sonnet's price did not move at all. The difference affects your budget.