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FriAug 28, 2026
Issue #177

A top SQL benchmark got 52% wrong 🥇 Anthropic's agents run lab robots 🔬 Hugging Face's $399 robot duck 🦆

Zuckerberg attacked the labs, then budgeted $10B for Anthropic. OpenAI wants a cyber-defence surge.

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ThuAug 27, 2026
Issue #176

Altman previews virtual colleagues that keep toiling 🌙, Salesforce moved the CRM inside Claude 🖥, Opus 5 writes bigger diffs 📏

An IMO gold medal cost 12 cents. Up to 46% of studied Turk workers were using LLMs.

32 min16 stories
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WedAug 26, 2026
Issue #175

staff revolt killed Meta's purge ✊, Nvidia guarantees buyer revenue 💸, a third of new compute is OpenAI's 🧊

Russian autonomous drone with an Nvidia chip kills 3. C2PA signing breaks on any rooted phone.

30 min15 stories
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TueAug 25, 2026
Issue #174

datacentre hate is big tech, not AI 🎭, a lab claims 5 trillion context 🧨, Hugging Face got a $13B offer 💰

Paint hides a Microsoft ID in offline images. Apple's M6 runs LLMs on 32GB of unified memory.

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MonAug 24, 2026
Issue #173

a 27B model cracked a paid licence 🔓, a robot beat Bolt's 100m record 🏃, Nvidia funds a DeepSeek rival 🐋

Harvey's new model runs on Kimi K3. GPT-5.6 Sol is a third cheaper until November.

46 min23 stories
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FriAug 21, 2026
Issue #172

Anthropic's IPO may top SpaceX's 💵, benchmarks can't keep up with AI 📆, Claude needs a de-slopper 🧹

Google took a $12.2bn warrant over Marvell. DeepSeek's vision model closes on Opus-4.8.

38 min19 stories
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