Every issue
Every issue the Observatory has sent in the last year, newest first.
October 2026
Dispatches from Others, 14-Oct-26Official news of the last 7 days, as each government tells its own people. Stories read: 71 North Korea, 101 Eritrea, 328 Iran, 821 Russia.
Ethiopia AI weekly, 14-Oct-26Ethiopia opens Fayda digital ID sandbox to local developers7 stories
Ethiopia daily brief, 14-Oct-26Mekelle flights resume as federal officials travel to Tigray18 stories
AI daily, 14-Oct-26Meta launches Muse Wonder model30 stories
Dispatches from Others, 13-Oct-26Official news of the last 7 days, as each government tells its own people. Stories read: 58 North Korea, 103 Eritrea, 216 Iran, 454 Russia.
Ethiopia daily brief, 13-Oct-26Ethiopian forces enter Adwa as flights resume to Mekelle16 stories
AI daily, 13-Oct-26Microsoft unveils Maia 300 AI chip, plans multi-gigawatt deployments26 stories
Dispatches from Others, 12-Oct-26Official news of the last 7 days, as each government tells its own people. Stories read: 55 North Korea, 69 Eritrea, 105 Iran, 279 Russia.
Ethiopia daily brief, 12-Oct-26Getachew Reda says Tigray will be run by a command post and elections held in six months15 stories
AI daily, 12-Oct-26Amazon in talks to buy AI startup Decart for about $7 billion21 stories
Ethiopia daily brief, 11-Oct-26Ethiopia says it must defend itself against Eritrea's 'all-out invasion'32 stories
Podcasts and talks about AI, 11-Oct-26OpenAI open sources OpenClaw Enterprise control plane20 stories
AI daily, 11-Oct-26Claude Fable 5 released33 stories
Agentic Software Engineering, 9-Oct-26Google rewrites giflib in Rust using Gemini and differential fuzz testing30 stories
Science corner, 9-Oct-26Research papers of the week on AI and the fields around it, in plain English: the ones our sources talked about most, and in each field the ones that matter most.
Ethiopian banking and fintech, 9-Oct-26Ethiopia's Movable Collateral Registry Passes 312,000 Assets30 stories
Ethiopia daily brief, 9-Oct-26Ethiopia's neighbours watch Tigray war escalation25 stories
AI daily, 9-Oct-26OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol and More40 stories
Ethiopia daily brief, 8-Oct-26Witnesses report Eritrean troops in northern Ethiopia22 stories
AI daily, 8-Oct-26Mistral launches Le Chonk, a trillion-parameter open-weight model40 stories
Ethiopia daily brief, 7-Oct-26Ethiopian Parliament Approves Reconfiguration of Four Federal Ministries25 stories
AI daily, 7-Oct-26Anthropic IPO expected between midterms and Thanksgiving, with charity matching in focus40 stories
Ethiopia daily brief, 6-Oct-26Ethiopia's Abiy presses Red Sea access demand as he is sworn in25 stories
AI daily, 6-Oct-26Eval compares agentic and vector search for finding bugs in code40 stories
Ethiopia daily brief, 5-Oct-26Ethiopian forces retake Mekelle as Tigray fighting resumes25 stories
AI daily, 5-Oct-26Richard Socher on 'The Eureka Machine' and Full-Stack AI for Science40 stories
Ethiopia daily brief, 4-Oct-26Ethiopian forces take Mekelle from Tigray fighters25 stories
Podcasts and talks about AI, 4-Oct-26Google DeepMind's Keerthana Gopalakrishnan on Gemini Robotics 220 stories
AI daily, 4-Oct-26Google DeepMind's Keerthana Gopalakrishnan on Gemini Robotics 240 stories
Observatory: ET banks/fintech, 2 October 2026Ethiopian Banks Face Fayda ID Bill as Costs Outpace Income7 stories
Observatory: ET daily brief, 2 October 2026Ethiopia to close its embassy in Asmara25 stories
Observatory: Daily email report, 2 October 2026Dots demo replayed at OpenAI DevDay 202640 stories
Observatory: Agentic Software Engineering, 2 October 2026OpenAI launches Ultrafast tier and GPT-6.1 Sol30 stories
Observatory: Science corner, 2 October 2026Research papers of the week on AI and the fields around it, in plain English: the ones our sources talked about most, and in each field the ones that matter most.
Observatory: ET daily brief, 1 October 2026MSF says renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia overwhelms hospitals25 stories
Observatory: Daily email report, 1 October 2026Google DeepMind Releases Gemini 4 Argon40 stories
September 2026
Observatory report 30 September 2026Anthropic Releases Sonnet 5.5, Matching Opus 5.5 at Half the Price40 stories
Observatory report 29 September 2026Z.ai unveils GLM-5.2 open-weight model and Z Code harness40 stories