Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/
Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
Cloudflare OS is an open-source platform that lets everyone in your company build apps, automate work, and safely access internal systems, shaped around what your organization knows and how it operates.
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/
Google
The next chapter of our AI momentum
Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams.
Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency
Neon
Training 100x Cheaper Retrieval models Neon and Castform - Neon
A 4B open-source model post-trained with Castform retrieved search results as accurately as GPT-5.6 Sol, while costing 100x less.
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage https://blog.fogus.me/llm/born-against.html
blog.fogus.me
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage
Mario Meets Pareto https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto
www.mayerowitz.io
Mario meets Pareto
Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat your friends on the race track.
GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74
Githubstatus
Incident with Actions
GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Actions.
Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks https://provenmetal.com
ProvenMetal
ProvenMetal. Fast circuit boards. Built in America.
ProvenMetal runs the entire PCB build in the US for drone and defense teams. Fast turns, made in America. Ordering now open.
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-inference-performance-by-etching-models-into-silicon/5284344
theregister
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon
Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to childrenβs mental health https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
the Guardian
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to childrenβs mental health
Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against users
2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-out
IGN
Now That 2027 RAM Manufacturing Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold Through, It's Hard To Imagine the RAMageddon Ending Any Timeβ¦
A new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers β Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron β have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to AI companies.
What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
NOEMA
Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model
Meta AI Research
Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device
Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter open agentic model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, optimized for always-on local workflows on consumer hardware.
Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025) https://lwn.net/Articles/1034703/
Squeak 6.1 https://squeak.org/release_notes/6.1/
Squeak/Smalltalk
Squeak 6.1 Release Notes
These release notes are optimized for viewing inside Squeak, as they contain a lot of interactive examples. On this page, interactive links open in SqueakJS, which is a browser-based Smalltalk VM with some limitations. For the best experience, download Squeakβ¦
Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models https://www.ft.com/content/4e3957f8-ea7c-4c46-a3de-cdce8e526878
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