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DevNvidia’s 13F shows $63B in equity and not one new buyA 13F is a photograph of a day that is already six weeks gone, which is usually why nobody bothers reading Nvidia's. This one…16 August 2026
DevQwen3.8-27B ships Apache 2.0 with vision, the 2.4T doesn’tOpen the two model cards side by side and the surprise is which one you would rather self host. Qwen3.8-27B went up on Hugging…15 August 2026
DevPalmyra X6 runs on GLM-5.2, priced $2 in and $8 outRead the fourth paragraph of the press release and the interesting sentence is right there, unhedged: Palmyra X6 was post-trained on top of GLM-5.2,…15 August 2026
DevMicrosoft merged the Copilot apps, and three features retireThe app icon changing is not the story. Microsoft started merging the consumer Copilot app into Microsoft 365 Copilot on 13 August, and on…15 August 2026
DevUber and Pony.ai promised 2,000 robotaxis and named one cityTen cars. That is the whole robotaxi fleet carrying paying passengers in Europe on this partnership right now, a handful of Arcfox SUVs doing…14 August 2026
DevGPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast hits 750 tokens a second, with no priceCerebras published a bar chart with a 14x on it, and the bar beside it says 2.5x. That is the pitch for Ultrafast, the…14 August 2026
DevGLM-5.3: open weights in two weeks, breaking API change nowZ.ai put a Hugging Face button on its own GLM-5.3 announcement page, and the button says Coming Soon. That is the launch in one…14 August 2026
DevTwitch’s AI training toggle is on, and it covers your chatYou went to bed a streamer and woke up a training set. On 12 August Twitch shipped a setting called Training for Generative AI,…13 August 2026
DevGrok 4.6 keeps $2/$6 and adds a 200K pricing cliffThe headline on xAI's page is the price that didn't move. Grok 4.6 landed on 12 August at the same $2 in and $6…13 August 2026
DevGemini 3.7 Flash is half price until 31 DecemberWe had the Gemini pricing page open for something else, and the 3.7 Flash row carried a sentence most of today's coverage skipped. Google…13 August 2026
SysadminChatGPT desktop for Linux: the .deb adds an OpenAI apt repoThree years of people asking, and on 11 August it turned up: a native ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, public preview, shipping as DEB…12 August 2026
DevNemotron 3.5 Lightning runs 30B on 3B active parametersThirty billion parameters, and only three billion of them wake up per token. That ratio is the whole pitch for what NVIDIA published on…12 August 2026
DevDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is live, at 3x the Flash priceNothing in your code has to change, again. On 12 August DeepSeek pointed deepseek-v4-pro at a new build called DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, same endpoint, same 0.435…12 August 2026
DevNVIDIA’s $500B compute financing and the 25% backstopSix phone calls, and nobody said no. That is roughly how Jensen Huang described it, and on 10 August NVIDIA announced memorandums of understanding…11 August 2026
DevIntel raised $20B and 14A still has no named customerIntel's investor page updated at 7:45 in the morning New York time with a proposal to sell $15 billion of stock. By the close…11 August 2026
DevAnthropic’s Theseus: a data center deal with no numbersMacquarie's newsroom in Australia published it, not an AI lab, and it runs about four paragraphs. On 10 August, Anthropic, Macquarie Asset Management and…11 August 2026
DevSource Foundry: $400M and a $5B bet against ASMLA hedge fund that lost roughly two thirds of its value in July just wrote a $400 million cheque for a company nobody has…10 August 2026
DevMeta Muse Glimmer: the 30B agent needs 24GB of VRAMYour 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…10 August 2026
DevClaude Code auto mode is the default from August 14You know the rhythm. Claude Code stops, shows you a shell command, waits. You hit yes. You have hit yes forty times today and…10 August 2026
DevTfL licensed 15 Wayve cars in London, driver still insidePicture the car that just got licensed. A Ford Mustang Mach-E with surround cameras and radar, and a person sat behind the steering wheel…9 August 2026
DevGenesis-Science-1: DOE Opened a Portal, Not a ModelSomebody 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…9 August 2026
DevByteDance’s 10T model is pretraining, not a productSomebody 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…9 August 2026
DevTerafab: what Tesla and SpaceX’s $16.8B first phase buysGrimes County sits an hour northwest of Houston and it's mostly ranch land. It now has a $30 million state grant and a plan…8 August 2026
NetworkEntanglement Ran 62 km of Aerial Fiber at 92.8% UptimeSomewhere between Gaithersburg and College Park there's a strand of ordinary telecom fiber hanging off utility poles, doing what fiber on poles does: swaying…8 August 2026