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DevAmazon’s $1.8M Claude bill: 860% over, 5 months unseenSomewhere in Amazon's catalogue, a tool was quietly matching author records against product listings. It ran for five months. It never launched, and it…31 July 2026
DevGPT-5.6 price cut: Luna drops 80%, Sol stays at $5Somebody on your team benchmarked GPT-5.6 three weeks ago and picked a tier. That estimate is now wrong. On 30 July OpenAI cut the…30 July 2026
DevFCC robot ban: the 4.4 lb rule that catches vacuumsYour robot vacuum still works. Worth saying first, because the headlines this week read like the US outlawed robots, and plenty of people went…30 July 2026
SecurityCloudflare origin PQC: ML-DSA-44, OpenSSL 3.5.0Run openssl genpkey -algorithm mldsa44 on a stock Ubuntu 24.04 box and it fails. Unknown algorithm, because that release ships OpenSSL 3.0 and this…30 July 2026
DevOpenAI’s free GPT-5.6 for researchers: what you getA credit card, for a checkout that totals zero. That's step six of applying to the program OpenAI announced on 29 July, and it…29 July 2026
DevNvidia SSI deal: $5B reported, 10x compute on Vera RubinA four-line post on X, from an account that had barely spoken in two years. That's how the biggest number in this week's AI…29 July 2026
DevMCP 2026-07-28 removes sessions, and no policy covers thatRead any writeup of the new MCP spec and you get the same reassurance, roughly: deprecated features stick around for at least twelve months,…29 July 2026
DevTesla Optimus V3: production starts, reveal still missingPicture a factory floor in Fremont where the last Model S rolled off in early May, now filling up with tooling for a machine…28 July 2026
DevLaguna S 2.1: 118B open weights on one DGX SparkSomebody forwards you the headline: an open model that beats rivals ten times its size. Then you open Poolside's own benchmark table and Kimi…28 July 2026
DevThe Pixel 11 price rise is 4.3x on RAM, not sixfoldYou go to re-quote a laptop refresh you scoped in January, and the same machine comes back a fifth dearer. That is the crunch…28 July 2026
DevSK and NVIDIA signed letters of intent, not a $500B dealThree deals landed in one afternoon at a San Francisco hotel, and the biggest number came with the least paperwork. On July 24 SK…27 July 2026
DeviOS 26.6 is out: the Spotlight index it quietly buildsYour iPhone runs warm on the sofa an hour after an update that supposedly did nothing. That's iOS 26.6, out July 27, and the…27 July 2026
DevIBM buys HRL: 18 spin qubits and a 300mm fabRead IBM's July 23 announcement twice and you still won't find a number in it. Not a price. Not a qubit count either. What…27 July 2026
DevThe Kimi K3 weights are 1.4 TB, and that is the catchSomebody on your team is going to ask whether you can just host Kimi K3 yourselves. Short version: the weights land by July 27,…26 July 2026
SEOGoogle’s €890M DMA fine: what changes in 60 daysCheck your EU rankings in October, not this week. On 23 July the European Commission fined Google 890 million euros across two decisions: 460…26 July 2026
DevCursor agent swarm: SQLite for $1,339 and the 15x catchSomebody sent you the chart, probably. A swarm of agents wrote SQLite in Rust from nothing but the manual, and the bill came to…26 July 2026
DevOpen Weights letter: 25 signers, and what it changesTwenty five logos at the bottom of a three page PDF, and not one of them is OpenAI. That's the story. On July 24…25 July 2026
DevEtched raises $300M at $10.3B: where did Sohu go?We went looking for the Sohu spec sheet, and it is not there any more. Etched raised 300 million dollars on July 23 at…25 July 2026
DevAMD Helios vs Vera Rubin NVL72: the MI455X numbersLisa Su held a chip up on stage in San Francisco on July 23 and called Helios the best rack in the world today.…25 July 2026
DevFLUX 3 is here: video, audio, open weights laterSo a new model drops and the pitch is that it does everything: video, image, audio, even robot arms, all from one set of…24 July 2026
DevClaude Opus 5 keeps the $5/$25 price, with thinking onSo you open Claude and the model picker has a new top line: Opus 5. Anthropic shipped it on July 24, its fourth model…24 July 2026
DevPsiQuantum’s $125M DARPA deal buys verification, not a machineDARPA just wrote PsiQuantum a check for $125 million, and the headlines already read like the encryption-breaking quantum computer is around the corner. Slow…23 July 2026
DevOpenAI Presence: the enterprise AI agent platformSomeone calls a support line, gets a real answer, and never talks to a person. That's the pitch OpenAI put a product name on…23 July 2026
NetworkNVIDIA Spectrum-6: what 102.4 Tb/s Ethernet changesSo NVIDIA put a 102.4-terabit-per-second Ethernet switch on stage on July 21, and the number is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Here's the…23 July 2026