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Kimi K3 open weights need roughly 1.5TB of VRAM, which does not fit on a B200 node. That forces a real hardware decision: B300, two B200 nodes, or AMD's MI355X. Here is the head-to-head with verified specs, the Wafer benchmark, and what it costs per token.
A final Digital Markets Act decision requires Alphabet to give third-party AI assistants the same Android access Gemini has: DSP wake words, ambient sensors, screen automation, on-device models, and fair background execution. Home Assistant's three-year fight over the 'Okay Nabu' wake word shows exactly what the ruling unlocks.
Cursor shipped a deliberate change on July 31 making the Usage page tokens-only for self-serve plans, removed the dollar Cost column, and zeroed per-request cost fields in the dashboard API - including for historical records. Staff confirmed the change is intentional and that the numbers are still tracked internally.
GitHub deprecated Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash in every Copilot surface on July 31, 2026. The suggested replacements are Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.6 Flash. Here is what changed, what it costs, and how to migrate cleanly.
OpenAI's next model, codenamed Astra, produced results on ten problems open for at least a decade - including non-sofic groups and Erdős problems 146, 180, and 183 - with every argument formalized as a Lean certificate.
Alibaba's Qwen-UI-Agent report is less interesting as a leaderboard and more interesting as a product spec: mobile, desktop, browser, CLI, and DeepSearch in one stateful agent runtime.
A ripgrep musl binary crashing during very-large searches turned out to be a suspected Linux 7.0 kernel race - a thread's own store vanishing mid-function. The reporter's instrumentation pinned it, and a kernel-hardening maintainer posted a one-line fix candidate for testing.
MCP just dropped sessions entirely. Every request is now one self-contained POST. Here is what changed in the 2026-07-28 spec and a Bun + Hono pattern for hosting many MCP servers on a single process.
Since we published your-benchmark-is-lying-to-you, roughly 25 new results have landed on the eval-integrity question. The surprise: every fix that works is structural - ledgers, counterfactuals, decompositions, personas, readout discipline - and none of them asks the model to be smarter.
AI Gateway spend budgets now scope to teams and projects, with hard dollar limits that reject requests, email alerts at 50/75/100%, and CLI-managed defaults. Here is how the three scopes compose and where it fits your cost stack.
Vercel MCP now serves both the stateless 2026-07-28 protocol and the 2025 protocol from one endpoint, with mcp-handler 2.x handling the negotiation. The first major hosted MCP server has crossed over - here is what it means for server authors and clients.
A wave of audits in the last two days measured the noise floor of agent benchmarks: misaligned ground truth, lenient model judges, and aggregate scalars that hide real failures. Here is what the numbers actually mean, what to trust, and how to buy agents without being played.
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