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DevAMD buys Taalas: the HC1 etches Llama 3.1 into siliconPicture 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…8 August 2026
DevIonQ Evergreen-05: DARPA funds 25 clocks, not 125IonQ published the announcement on 6 August, then published it again a few hours later marked UPDATED. The second version is the one worth…7 August 2026
DevGPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT is not the Sol in your API callsYou tune a prompt in ChatGPT until it behaves, paste it into your API call, and the answer comes back longer and mushier. Since…7 August 2026
DevAnthropic’s custom silicon team: no chip, no timelineSix 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…7 August 2026
DevUnitree priced at $9B, and 73.6% of humanoids go to labsSomebody finally put a public price on a humanoid robot company, and it came in at 61 billion yuan. Unitree priced its Shanghai STAR…6 August 2026
DevMeta Muse Code: Muse Spark 1.2 and the 21x cheaper tierMeta published three coding benchmark charts on Wednesday and finished first on none of them. Odd way to launch, and it tells you what…6 August 2026
DevJeff Dean leaves Google: what changes for Gemini devsYour Gemini API key still works. Worth saying first, because the news out of Mountain View reads like an earthquake if you only scan…6 August 2026
DevShieldstral 1.0: the 3B guard model that ties a 20BYour moderation queue doesn't care which taxonomy a model was trained on. It cares whether that screenshot breaks the rule your legal team wrote…5 August 2026
DevThe grok-voice-latest alias just got 60 percent dearerGo and look at your xAI bill in September. If your voice agent connects with model=grok-voice-latest, which is the exact string sitting in xAI's…5 August 2026
DevGoogle Assistant shuts down September 4: what you loseCheck your inbox. If there is an Android phone in your pocket, Google sent you a notice this week saying the assistant on it…5 August 2026
DevQwen 3.8 Max: is it open source? Not yetHalf the headlines this week call Qwen3.8-Max an open source model. Right now it isn't one, and the gap matters if you were planning…4 August 2026
DevMiniMax H3 open weights: not licensed in the EU, UK or USYou go to pull the weights, and the license stops you at the door. That's the shape of this one. On August 3 MiniMax…4 August 2026
DevBending Spoons is buying Airtable for $1.285B in cashSomeone on your team keeps the client roster in an Airtable base, and that base just changed owners. On 4 August Bending Spoons announced…4 August 2026
DevA judge shut Waymo’s Santa Monica depot from 11pm to 6amEleven at night on Broadway in Santa Monica, and the cars come home. Not to a garage, to two open lots, where they beep…3 August 2026
DevMacBook Air M5 shortage: $1,299 and a six week waitYou go to order six Airs for the new starters, and the checkout says late September. That's roughly where this is: Apple put the…3 August 2026
DevWhat Article 50 of the EU AI Act makes you labelSomebody on your team read that Brussels postponed the AI Act and filed it under next year. Half right. The high risk rules did…3 August 2026
DevQualcomm’s double-digit chip price rise starts September 1Your September quote for a batch of Android handsets comes back higher than the August one, and the line that moved isn't memory this…2 August 2026
DevOpenAI Astra: what the ten Lean proofs actually proveOpenAI put ten proofs on GitHub on 1 August and didn't ship a model. That's the shape of this one: an internal version of…2 August 2026
DevInkling-Small out-codes the 975B flagship at 276BTwo weeks ago we said the honest problem with Inkling was that you probably couldn't run it. Two terabytes of VRAM will do that.…2 August 2026
DevZoox wins Part 555: paid robotaxi, no steering wheelSit in a Zoox and there is nowhere to put your hands. Four seats facing each other, no wheel, no pedals, no front. On…1 August 2026
DevGoogle pulled Nano Banana 2 from Earth after one daySomeone typed one sentence and put a nuclear plant in Iran. That was Thursday, and by Friday the feature that let them do it…1 August 2026
DevDeepSeek V4-Flash-0731: same API, new modelYour DeepSeek bill didn't change last Friday. The model did. On 31 July DeepSeek shipped DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 onto the same deepseek-v4-flash endpoint you were already…1 August 2026
SysadminSeagate 50TB HAMR drives: 2028, not 2027Every headline this week put 50TB in the title, which is fair, because a ten platter drive holding fifty terabytes is a genuinely absurd…31 July 2026
DevGemini Robotics 2: what Google’s own benchmarks sayThe clip everyone shared shows a humanoid crouching to pick a watering can off the floor, walking it across the room, and setting it…31 July 2026