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DevClaude Cowork Record a Skill: teach agents by demoYou run the same fiddly export every Monday, and you've explained it to your AI five times already. On July 21 Anthropic shipped a…22 July 2026
DevChatGPT ads are live: OpenAI’s self-serve Ads ManagerSo the thing Sam Altman once called a last resort just got a self-serve dashboard. On July 22 OpenAI opened Advertise in ChatGPT, a…22 July 2026
DevA judge approved Anthropic’s $1.5B author settlementSo the biggest AI copyright fight just ended with a cheque, not a verdict. On July 20 a federal judge in San Francisco signed…22 July 2026
DevQwen-Image-3.0 is here: no weights, no benchmarksOpen Qwen Chat this morning and there's a new image model waiting, Qwen-Image-3.0, with a demo reel of dense infographics and UI mockups that…21 July 2026
DevBMS committed to eight Vera Rubin systems, not a clusterSo Bristol Myers Squibb put out a press release on July 20, and the headline calls it the most powerful AI factory in life…21 July 2026
DevGemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper than 3.5 and scores higherYou opened the Gemini pricing page to check on 3.5 Pro, and instead there's a new Flash sitting where the old one used to…21 July 2026
DevMistral’s first robotics model steers on one cameraPicture a warehouse robot you brief like a new hire. 'Leave the lobby, take the corridor, stop facing the second shelf.' No map uploaded,…20 July 2026
DevDid Claude Fable 5 disprove the Jacobian Conjecture?Sunday night, the World Cup final was on, and a number theorist at Anthropic was posting algebra instead of watching it. Levent Alpoge dropped…20 July 2026
DevClaude Code drops Node for Bun 1.4.0 in RustYou updated Claude Code last month, it kept working, and you never noticed it stopped needing Node.js. That's the news, sort of. Since v2.1.181…20 July 2026
DevHumanoid HMND 01: what the robot unicorn really shipsSo a two-metre robot in a black vest stands in an auto-parts plant, moving grey totes from a pallet to a trolley, and that…19 July 2026
DevFireworks raised $1.5B, and a raise ships no codeYou read our piece on Qwen 3.8, nodded at the open weights, then hit the same wall we always do. Great, now where do…19 July 2026
DevGemini 3.5 Pro missed July 17: launch vs leakYou went to add gemini-3.5-pro to an API call this week because every headline pointed at July 17. It isn't there. Google let a…18 July 2026
DevClaude Fable 5 goes permanent July 20: the fine printYou opened Claude Code this morning half expecting Fable 5 to be gone again, because the cutoff has slipped three times now. It isn't…18 July 2026
SecurityClassic McEliece is the first ISO post-quantum standardSo a 1978 cryptosystem just quietly became an international standard, and most of us missed it. On July 15, UK firm Post-Quantum announced that…18 July 2026
DevNVIDIA Jetson T3000 and T2000: Thor for mainstream robotsSo Jensen Huang stands on a stage in Japan holding a module smaller than a paperback, and that's the actual news. On July 16…17 July 2026
DevNVIDIA Ising Decoder ColorCode 1: what 347x really meansScroll down to Figure 1 in NVIDIA's post and there's a small asterisk next to d=31. Easy to miss. It's also most of the…17 July 2026
DevApple Intelligence China: approved, not shippedTwenty-two months. That is how long an iPhone bought in Shanghai has sat with the Apple Intelligence menu dark while the Huawei next to…17 July 2026
DevInkling is a 975B open model that loses benchmarks on purposeMira Murati's lab spent about nine months in near silence, and on July 15 it shipped weights instead of a waitlist. Inkling is a…16 July 2026
DevKimi K3 is live, and most of its specs are still leaksOpen the Kimi app tonight and there's a fresh name in the model picker: K3, in two flavors, Max and Cluster Max. So it's…16 July 2026
DevThe rebuilt Siri is in the iOS 27 public betaYou update, you say Hey Siri, and for the first time in roughly two years it actually holds a conversation instead of bouncing you…16 July 2026
DevNvidia cut half its authorised AI chip buyers in AsiaA small cloud in Singapore quotes you GPU hours at a price that makes your finance person smile. Then the quote goes quiet, and…15 July 2026
SysadminNew York just paused data centres above 50MWYour instances started this morning exactly like they did yesterday, and nothing about them cares what Albany did. Fine. But New York became the…15 July 2026
DevApple sued OpenAI over trade secrets on 10 JulyTwo years ago Apple put ChatGPT inside the iPhone. On July 10 its lawyers filed a complaint against OpenAI in a federal court in…15 July 2026
DevSeedream 5.0 Pro: the image model that ships you layersYou generate a poster, the headline sits a pixel too low, and normally that means re-rolling the whole thing and praying the rest survives.…14 July 2026