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open-source

Qwen3.8-27B Is Out, and It Runs on One Gaming Graphics Card

Alibaba finally shipped the small half of its Qwen3.8 promise. The 27 billion parameter model reached number one on Hacker News because people can actually run it at home.

15 Aug 2026
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security

An AI Notetaker Left 181,874 Meetings Open to Anyone With a Free Account

A security researcher found that tl;dv, an AI meeting recorder used by over two million people, let any signed-in user list every meeting on the platform, including live calls they could join.

15 Aug 2026
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deepseek

Deepseek Gave Away Its Agent Software and Raised API Prices on the Same Day

Deepseek Harness v0.1 is out under the MIT license, a free open alternative to Codex and Claude Code. On the same day the company announced steep API price increases, with cache hits jumping sixfold.

14 Aug 2026
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anthropic

The Best Model on the Market Is the One Companies Are Not Buying

Spending data from Ramp shows Anthropic's Fable 5 taking just six percent of the tokens companies buy from Anthropic. The most capable model is losing on price, and that says something about the whole industry.

14 Aug 2026
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open-source

Ling 3.0 Flash Is the Smartest Open Model of Its Size, and It Stopped Making Things Up

Ant Group's inclusionAI released Ling 3.0 Flash under the MIT license. The headline number is not the intelligence score, it is the hallucination rate falling from 97 to 44 percent.

14 Aug 2026
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mistral

Mistral OCR 4.1 Can Now Point at the Exact Paragraph It Read

The French lab's document reader now returns paragraph-level coordinates, labels each block by type, and scores its own confidence. Boring on paper, and exactly what makes AI document answers checkable.

14 Aug 2026
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openai

OpenAI's New Ultrafast Mode Runs Its Best Model 14 Times Faster

A new OpenAI API tier powered by Cerebras runs GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 output tokens per second. Same model, same quality, roughly fourteen times the speed, for a small group of customers first.

14 Aug 2026
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suno

Suno Studio 2.0 Lets You Talk to a Music Studio Like It Is a Bandmate

Suno turned its music generator into a chat-driven production tool: build instruments and plugins by typing, import MIDI, export unlimited 32-bit multitrack. The export policy sits oddly next to last week's anti-spam limits.

14 Aug 2026
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google

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Better at Code and Costs Half as Much

Three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash, Google shipped 3.7 Flash with real coding gains and cut the launch price in half. The catch is in the calendar: that price expires on December 31.

14 Aug 2026
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openai

ChatGPT Finally Has a Real Linux App, and It Brings Codex With It

OpenAI shipped a preview of its desktop app for Linux on August 11, with proper DEB and RPM packages for Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. Codex, its coding workspace, comes in the same window.

13 Aug 2026
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google

Gemini Passed a Billion Monthly Users, and Most of Them Are Talking to It

Google says its Gemini app crossed one billion monthly users on August 11. The more interesting numbers are underneath: 63 percent use voice, and the app makes 150 million images a day.

13 Aug 2026
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open-source

Rocky Linux's Founder Wants to Open the One Part of AI Nobody Opens: the Training Data

OpenWALDO launched with 124 billion tokens across 75 million documents, each carrying a licence and an origin. The idea is that a model should come with a parts list, the way software does.

13 Aug 2026
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media

An AI Newsroom Beat Reporters Who Were in the Room

RuntimeWire published an OpenAI security story three hours ahead of journalists attending the conference in person. One human, a pipeline of agents, and about 1,600 articles since May.

13 Aug 2026
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vibe-coding

Lovable Raised $400 Million, and Europe Just Got Its Biggest Vibe Coding Bet

The Stockholm startup that turns plain English into working apps doubled its valuation to $13.3 billion in eight months. 60 million projects have been built on it, and an EU fund helped lead the round.

13 Aug 2026
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robotics

You Can Now Hire a Humanoid Robot to Clean Your Flat, With a Human in VR Goggles Driving It

Tau Robotics opened an invite only pilot in San Francisco at $30 an hour. The robots vacuum and take out the bins. They also cannot climb stairs, and a person is steering most of the time.

13 Aug 2026
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security

One Researcher, Under 20 Prompts, One Day: How AI Built a Zoom Attack

A Security disclosed three critical Zoom flaws on August 11. The bug is bad enough, but the finding is the cost: work that used to take nation states months took a single researcher a day.

13 Aug 2026
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ai-basics

That Advice About Which Language AI Codes Best In? It Falls Apart on Real Work

Dan Luu re-ran the popular claim that dynamic languages are cheaper for coding agents. On two large tasks the effect vanished, and the second-most-cited benchmark turned out to be broken.

12 Aug 2026
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ai-basics

The Creator of Redis Made a Chinese Video Model Run on a Mac. Europeans Are Not Licensed to Use It

Salvatore Sanfilippo published h3.c, a C and Metal engine that runs MiniMax H3 natively on Apple Silicon. The model's own licence excludes the EU, UK, US and South Korea from local deployment.

12 Aug 2026
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ai-basics

The Web Is Losing Its Memory, and AI Search Is Speeding It Up

An essay in The Walrus traces how AI summaries, link rot and legal pressure on the Internet Archive are quietly shrinking the record we can still search.

12 Aug 2026
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ai-basics

If You Use Manus, You Have Eleven Days to Back Up Your Data

Manus is separating from Meta and returning to independence. Some accounts will have all data created since December 29, 2025 deleted on August 23, with a backup window open now.

12 Aug 2026
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ai-basics

Mojo Reached 1.0, Three Years After Promising to Make Python Fast

Modular declared its systems language stable on August 11. Nearly 200 outside contributors have shaped the standard library, and the compiler is still promised as open source before the year is out.

12 Aug 2026
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ai-basics

Researchers Found a Way to Read the Hidden Thoughts of Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini

A paper published on stolen-thoughts.com shows how encrypted reasoning blocks from frontier models could be replayed into weaker sibling models and decoded. All three providers have now fixed it.

12 Aug 2026
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ai-basics

Nvidia's New Free Model Is Not the Smartest. It Is Just Very, Very Fast

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning matches OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on intelligence scores with a quarter of the parameters, and produces around 670 tokens per second, the fastest in its comparison group.

12 Aug 2026
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ai-basics

Anthropic Is Renting a Bitcoin Mine for 20 Years, and Promising to Pay Your Electricity Increase

A 9.1 billion dollar lease at a former crypto site in Texas, plus a new joint venture that builds data centres to order. The unusual bit is the pledge about consumer power bills.

11 Aug 2026