AWS bought DuckLabs, and DuckDB stays MIT
You ran `pip install duckdb` this morning and nothing was different. Good, because that is the honest answer here: AWS signed a definitive agreement on 26 August to buy DuckLabs, ...
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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash stitches its 40 seconds and upscales its 4K
Four dollars. That is what forty seconds of Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash costs at 720p list price, and for what Google shipped on 27 August that is fair. Then you ...
MTurk closes on 30 September, and approvals run a month later
Five weeks. That is how long a working `boto3` MTurk client has left, because Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk permanently on 30 September 2026 and HIT submission stops the same ...
Anthropic’s Nscale deal buys 460 MW for late 2027
Two people who would not be named, a British infrastructure company founded in 2024, and a field in Mason County, West Virginia. That's the sourcing on the largest compute contract ...
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe costs half a cent a minute, ranks fifth
Google published a chart on 26 August showing its new transcription model beating everyone else, and it is a perfectly honest chart. Then we opened the other benchmark, the one ...
Nobody has confirmed the $12.9B Hugging Face report
Wednesday night, one line in The Information, and by Thursday morning every model your CI pulls at build time might be coming from a company that sells GPUs. Nvidia has ...
GLM-5.3-Flash was Ox Alpha, and the price doubles
We spent last week telling people not to send work code to Ox Alpha, because nobody would say who was running it. That question closed on 26 August: it was ...
o3 left ChatGPT, and the API keeps it to 11 December
Open the model picker this morning and there's a gap where o3 used to sit. OpenAI retired it from ChatGPT on 26 August 2026, the end of a 90 day ...
Waymo picked Munich for its first EU city, late 2027
The picture Waymo put out is a white Jaguar under the Siegestor at sunset, sensor dome on the roof, nobody visibly in it. Right now that picture is the whole ...
Jalapeño measures 1.9x per watt against a GB200
A photograph of a chip sitting on a teal test board, and finally some numbers under it. OpenAI published Jalapeño's first measured results on 25 August, and the short version ...