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Google's official announcement image for the release, reading Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber in black type over a pale blue background with a blurred white chevron and the four colour Gemini spark below.

Gemini 3.8 Flash keeps the price and the 1 January cliff

3 September 2026

Answer card stating that Anthropic announced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards on 1 September 2026, that activity data used for misuse monitoring moves into cloud storage the customer controls under the customer own encryption keys, that Anthropic charges nothing for the feature while the cloud provider bills storage and egress, and that the phased rollout starts later in autumn 2026 with interim zero data retention on Fable 5 and Fable 5.1 for eligible customers.

Anthropic moves retention into your own cloud, for 30 days

3 September 2026

Official Google diagram of a client connection in three numbered steps: a DNS lookup with a query and an address, a TLS ClientHello and ServerHello, then a content exchange with a website. A callout on the DNS step reads 25% of global web traffic is now protected by encrypted DNS, and a callout beside an Android phone on the ClientHello step reads Android 17 supports ECH GREASE by default.

Android 17 hides the SNI, not your DNS or destination

3 September 2026

Still frame from the Claude Fable 5.1 launch video showing model-designed protein binders in orange docked against twelve grey target proteins, rendered as ESMFold2 structure predictions.

Claude Fable 5.1 breaks forced tool use, cuts cache 75%

1 September 2026

Answer card stating that on 31 August 2026 the European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, the first conversational AI service classified that way, because it answers user prompts and queries including by searching the web, with OpenAI having declared roughly 159.1 million average monthly users in the European Union for ChatGPT search.

The EU now calls ChatGPT a very large search engine

3 September 2026

Answer card stating that on 31 August 2026 the Department of War added OpenAI ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI Grok for Government to the GenAI.mil portal alongside Google Gemini, all three accredited at Impact Level 5 for Controlled Unclassified Information, with 1.7 million unique users onboarded out of roughly 3 million eligible personnel, and ChatGPT Mil currently serving GPT-5.4 Terra with GPT-5.6 Terra said to be rolling out.

ChatGPT Mil and Grok reached IL5 on GenAI.mil

3 September 2026

Answer card stating that Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard on 27 August 2026, standardising the driver layer between an operating system and a laboratory instrument with read and write primitives plus discovery and safety limits, reachable through MCP as well as a command line and code files, with no public specification published.

Anthropic’s Model Hardware Standard is gated, and sits under MCP

3 September 2026

Cohere Parse 5 is $1.50 per 1,000 pages, on three of five dimensions

3 September 2026

Title card from the OpenAI announcement video: a man sits on a blue sofa in a loft with tall windows and potted plants, a laptop open on the coffee table in front of him, with the words WebMCP in ChatGPT in large white type across the lower left.

WebMCP in ChatGPT needs GPT-5.6 Sol or Terra

3 September 2026

The Agentic Coding section of the official Hy4 preview benchmark appendix published by Tencent, a table comparing Hy3 and Hy4 preview against DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, Qwen 3.8 Max, GLM 5.3, Kimi K3, GPT 5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 5 across SWE-bench Multilingual, SWE-bench Pro, DeepSWE, three SWE Atlas tasks, SWE-Marathon, Terminal-Bench 2.1, NL2Repo-Bench, CyberGym, ProgramBench, PostTrainBench and Harbor-Index.

Tencent’s 770B Hy4 tops one benchmark row in 46

3 September 2026

Official Qwen architecture diagram for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, showing input tokens feeding a vocabulary embedding and a separate n-gram embedding layer at layer 2, a stack of Gated DeltaNet layers punctuated by Qwen Sparse Attention layers in a three to one hybrid block, Gated Residual read and write gates around each MoE block, and MTP modules beside the prediction head.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next runs 6B active and weighs 173 GiB

3 September 2026

Answer card stating that a 59-page order signed 27 August 2026 by Judge Rita Lin vacated the supply chain risk designation applied to Anthropic and granted a permanent injunction, on findings of First Amendment retaliation and a designation reaching past 10 U.S.C. section 3252, six months after the February directive.

A judge vacated the Pentagon’s risk label on Anthropic

3 September 2026

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Anthropic moves retention into your own cloud, for 30 days

by stephane

3 September 2026

Meta Muse Glimmer: the 30B agent needs 24GB of VRAM

Meta announcement artwork for Muse Glimmer, an abstract network of blue lines and nodes on a dark background, from the Meta research blog post introducing the model.

by stephane

10 August 2026

Your card holds 24 GB, or it doesn't. That one number decides whether today's Meta release is something you'll actually run or just something you'll read about. Muse Glimmer went...

Answer card: the Financial Times reported on 7 August 2026 that ByteDance is pretraining a mixture of experts model of up to 10 trillion total parameters on roughly 30,000 GPUs over three to six months, with no model name, no active parameter count, no chip and no release date disclosed.

by stephane

9 August 2026

Somebody forwarded us the headline twice on Friday. China's biggest AI model, ten trillion parameters. Here's the actual shape of it: on 7 August the Financial Times reported that ByteDance...

The Department of Energy seal next to the Arcee AI mark on a teal field, the announcement image Arcee published for the Genesis-Science-1 partnership with DOE.

by stephane

9 August 2026

Somebody is going to forward you a headline this week saying the US government released an open-weight AI model. It didn't. What the Department of Energy put online on 7...

A Wayve autonomous Ford Mustang Mach-E in Uber livery on a London street, from the Wayve press release announcing that Transport for London granted private hire vehicle licences to its self-driving cars.

by stephane

3 September 2026

Picture the car that just got licensed. A Ford Mustang Mach-E with surround cameras and radar, and a person sat behind the steering wheel who is legally the driver. That...

Answer card: on 6 August 2026 AMD signed a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto startup whose HC1 chip etches Llama 3.1 8B weights into TSMC 6nm mask layers instead of holding them in HBM, with terms undisclosed and closing expected in the fourth quarter of 2026.

by stephane

8 August 2026

Picture a chip you can't reflash. That's the bet AMD just bought. On 6 August it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a three-year-old Toronto outfit that etches model...

SpaceX render of the planned Terafab semiconductor complex in Grimes County, Texas, showing an extremely long low rectangular building stretching across flat open land under a clear sky.

by stephane

8 August 2026

Grimes County sits an hour northwest of Houston and it's mostly ranch land. It now has a $30 million state grant and a plan for the largest building on the...

Answer card: on 5 August 2026 Anthropic confirmed it is building an in-house custom silicon team to co-design chips and Claude models, while keeping its multi-chip approach across AWS, Google, Nvidia and AMD, with no tape-out date, no foundry partner and no product announced.

by stephane

7 August 2026

Six job listings. That's most of the announcement, and honestly it's more informative than the headlines stacked on top of it. On 5 August Anthropic confirmed it's building a custom...

Official OpenAI launch artwork for the ChatGPT update: a large white pill-shaped slider on a starfield, its blue fill stopping at the third of five stops, labelled 5.6 High.

by stephane

7 August 2026

You tune a prompt in ChatGPT until it behaves, paste it into your API call, and the answer comes back longer and mushier. Since 6 August that isn't you imagining...

Answer card: IonQ announced a $28 million DARPA contract extension on 6 August 2026 under the It is About Time program, with a further unexercised $30 million option, together covering 125 Evergreen-05 optical atomic clocks, a 5-litre unit delivering 50 femtoseconds of stability at one second and nanosecond holdover over 10 days.

by stephane

7 August 2026

IonQ published the announcement on 6 August, then published it again a few hours later marked UPDATED. The second version is the one worth reading. The headline held at 125...

Answer card: on 5 August 2026 Demis Hassabis became Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, Koray Kavukcuoglu became SVP reporting to Sundar Pichai over models and the Gemini app and developer teams, and Chief Scientist Jeff Dean left after 27 years with three colleagues to found Discovery Loop.

by stephane

6 August 2026

Your Gemini API key still works. Worth saying first, because the news out of Mountain View reads like an earthquake if you only scan the names. On 5 August Sundar...