Gemini Robotics 2: what Google’s own benchmarks say
The clip everyone shared shows a humanoid crouching to pick a watering can off the floor, walking it across the room, and setting it on a low shelf. Smooth. Slightly ...
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Seagate 50TB HAMR drives: 2028, not 2027
Every headline this week put 50TB in the title, which is fair, because a ten platter drive holding fifty terabytes is a genuinely absurd object. Read the actual timing though ...
Cloudflare origin PQC: ML-DSA-44, OpenSSL 3.5.0
Run 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 wants 3.5.0. One command, and you ...
FCC robot ban: the 4.4 lb rule that catches vacuums
Your robot vacuum still works. Worth saying first, because the headlines this week read like the US outlawed robots, and plenty of people went and looked at their hallway. What ...
GPT-5.6 price cut: Luna drops 80%, Sol stays at $5
Somebody 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 API price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ...
MCP 2026-07-28 removes sessions, and no policy covers that
Read any writeup of the new MCP spec and you get the same reassurance, roughly: deprecated features stick around for at least twelve months, so there's no rush. That's true. ...
Nvidia SSI deal: $5B reported, 10x compute on Vera Rubin
A 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 coverage got loose. On 27 July, ...
OpenAI’s free GPT-5.6 for researchers: what you get
A credit card, for a checkout that totals zero. That's step six of applying to the program OpenAI announced on 29 July, and it tells you more about the shape ...
The Pixel 11 price rise is 4.3x on RAM, not sixfold
You go to re-quote a laptop refresh you scoped in January, and the same machine comes back a fifth dearer. That is the crunch Google just used, on the record, ...
Laguna S 2.1: 118B open weights on one DGX Spark
Somebody forwards you the headline: an open model that beats rivals ten times its size. Then you open Poolside's own benchmark table and Kimi K3 is sitting there at 88.3 ...