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DevSWE-2 trails Fable 5.1 by one point, and by 28 on Terminal-Bench 4Cognition shipped SWE-2 on 10 September 2026, a Kimi K3 post-trained with RL. It sits one point under Fable 5.1 on Cognition's own benchmark…11 September 2026
SysadminDoes Meta Muse do enough to earn your inbox and a card on file?Meta's personal agent is live in the US, free to 100 million tokens a week. The isolation design is serious work. Three ordinary errands…9 September 2026
SysadminBroadcom pulled VDDK 8.0 and 9.0, and the 404 is the only noticeThe library nearly every agentless VMware migration tool links against vanished from the download portal without a word. Here is what still works, and…8 September 2026
DevOpenAI’s 3.1 agent-workdays per human day is not a 3.1x gainOpenAI published its research acceleration numbers on 6 September. The ratio is real, the crossover happened in June 2026, and the post itself explains…7 September 2026
NetworkMullvad’s DNS servers go dark on 2 November, and Quad9 blocks no adsSix addresses on 194.242.2.x stop answering on 2 November 2026. Quad9 replaces the resolver, but not the ad blocking that five of those six…5 September 2026
DevGPT-6 Astra lists at $10 and $50, 2.5x what GPT-5.6 Sol costsWe went looking for the benchmark table and ended up parked on the pricing page instead. OpenAI started rolling GPT-6 Astra out on 3…4 September 2026
DevGemini 3.8 Flash keeps the price and the 1 January cliffWe opened the Gemini pricing page expecting a new row with a new date. The row is new. The date is not. Google shipped…2 September 2026
DevAnthropic moves retention into your own cloud, for 30 daysSomebody on your compliance team killed the Fable 5 pilot back in June, and the reason fit on one line: thirty days of your…2 September 2026
NetworkAndroid 17 hides the SNI, not your DNS or destinationSomebody on the network team pulls a capture off the guest wifi, filters for TLS, and half the hostnames are gone. The Android half.…2 September 2026
DevClaude Fable 5.1 breaks forced tool use, cuts cache 75%Swap claude-fable-5 for claude-fable-5-1 in your config and there is a decent chance your agent starts throwing 400s before it finishes a single turn.…1 September 2026
SEOThe EU now calls ChatGPT a very large search engineBrussels spent Monday putting a chatbot in the search engine box. Since 31 August 2026 ChatGPT is a Very Large Online Search Engine under…1 September 2026
DevChatGPT Mil and Grok reached IL5 on GenAI.milNine months in, GenAI.mil ran on one model. Google's. Since Monday it runs on three: the Department of War switched on OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil…1 September 2026
DevAnthropic’s Model Hardware Standard is gated, and sits under MCPEvery lab we have ever worked near keeps the same drawer of vendor software. Seven programs, seven serial protocols, nothing that talks to anything…31 August 2026
DevCohere Parse 5 is $1.50 per 1,000 pages, on three of five dimensionsA finance team handed us forty thousand scanned PDFs last spring and asked for clean Markdown. We priced the job against a frontier model,…31 August 2026
DevWebMCP in ChatGPT needs GPT-5.6 Sol or TerraSomebody on your team is going to paste a WebMCP snippet off a blog post this week and then wonder why ChatGPT sees nothing.…31 August 2026
DevTencent’s 770B Hy4 tops one benchmark row in 46Most labs publish the launch chart and bury the table. Tencent did the opposite on 28 August, and the table is the interesting half.…30 August 2026
DevQwen3.8-Flash-Next runs 6B active and weighs 173 GiBSomebody on the team read "6B activated" and asked which of our boxes could run it. Fair question, wrong number: the FP8 checkpoint for…30 August 2026
DevA judge vacated the Pentagon’s risk label on AnthropicSix months of a federal vendor ban ended on a Thursday night, in a 59-page order. Judge Rita Lin vacated the supply chain risk…30 August 2026
DevNvidia pauses its $36B AI Compute PartnershipTwo months. That is how long Nvidia's neocloud financing programme ran before the Wall Street Journal reported, on 27 August, that the company had…29 August 2026
DevMicroduck is $399, with open software and closed hardwareFour robot ducks on a black backdrop, 25 centimetres tall, in cream and graphite and lavender and sky. That launch shot is doing a…29 August 2026
DevTrainium4 takes Nvidia memory, which matters more than 2M GPUsTwo million GPUs is the number in every headline, and honestly it's the least interesting thing in the announcement. AWS and Nvidia published a…29 August 2026
DevMTurk closes on 30 September, and approvals run a month laterFive weeks. That is how long a working `boto3` MTurk client has left, because Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk permanently on 30 September 2026…28 August 2026
DevGemini Omni 1.1 Flash stitches its 40 seconds and upscales its 4KFour dollars. That is what forty seconds of Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash costs at 720p list price, and for what Google shipped on 27…28 August 2026
DevAWS bought DuckLabs, and DuckDB stays MITYou ran `pip install duckdb` this morning and nothing was different. Good, because that is the honest answer here: AWS signed a definitive agreement…28 August 2026