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/
The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32
GitHub
GitHub - rochus-keller/OberonSystem at op2-rv32
Modified version of the original from https://www.projectoberon.com/ for use with the Oberon IDE - rochus-keller/OberonSystem
Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/
TechEBlog
A Falling Weight Just Broke the Sound Barrier with Tom Stanton's Supersonic Trebuchet
Tom Stanton has spent years chasing a number that gravity itself seemed to forbid. On a quiet field somewhere in the UK, a 40-kilogram mass dropped a short distance, spun a carbon-fiber arm past 2,300 revolutions per minute, and sent a 4-gram projectile intoβ¦