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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Microduck
Trade (and Tariffs)
507 Mechanical Movements
Small Models Have Arrived
Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode
CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem
Yayoi Kusama has died
A curmudgeon tries a language server
Nvidia projects $673B in sales as AI demand widens
MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall
Decompiling a Nintendo 64 Game in 84 Days
Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
Launching Route 53 Files
Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
The turbulent AI era is here
Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards
Nvidia Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face For $13 Billion
Operation Bluebird Launches New Twitter
How Meta's Plan To Replace Workers With AI Agents Fell Apart
More Than 100 Water Systems Were Hit In July Cyberattacks
Radiation Link In Flight Attendant's Breast Cancer, French Court Finds
Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development
OpenAI Releases Its Official Report On the Hugging Face Breach
China's Moonshot In Talks With Microsoft, Amazon, Google Over K3 Revenue Sharing
Apple Maps Now Has Ads
Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books For AI Training
Xbox's New Disc-to-Digital Program Gives Physical Games a Digital Future
Amazon to Acquire DuckLabs, Adding the Team Behind DuckDB
Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children's Social Media Addiction
Firefox 157 Will Include JPEG XL By Default On All Platforms
Chinese Government Fears AI Might Replace Human Intimacy
Changes to SourceHut's terms of service regarding LLMs
Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV
Announcing our first Maintainers in Residence
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
Nebula Sans
UNIX V4 workshop at Low Resource Computing
Haiku R1/beta6 released
tailcat: like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane
If I release it, you won’t get the same experience I get
Merchants of Insecurity
Why Free Software usability tends to suck (2002)
Simon Jones on Functional Programming, Thinking in Types, Useless Languages
Dissectingthe Apple M1 GPU, the end (2025)
The turbulent AI era is here
DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source
Durable Objects without Cloudflare, on the database you already run
The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25
Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
A Million Kakapos
What happens when a GPU reads memory
The Root of The Root of All Evil
Float Bloat: vector serialization gone wrong
Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House (2025)
Symmetries in boolean scans
2025 vs. 2026 Mac Studio Buyer's Guide: All Upgrades Compared
LG Labor Day Sale Brings Major Discounts on OLED TVs and Monitors
Apple Event: Six New Products to Expect on September 9
Apple's New Macs to Ship With macOS Golden Gate
2026 MacBook Pro Sees Up to $500 Discounts at Amazon and Best Buy
Apple Announces Sneaky Sasquatch Updates, Files New Trademarks
Apple Event Logo Hints at Two iPhone 18 Pro Features
Apple Announces New Education Center in Vietnam
'Exclusive Red' iPhone Ultra Images Not What They Seem
Apple's iPhone Event Tagline is Different in Every Country
Astropad Launches Rock Paper Pencil 4.0 With New Graphite Apple Pencil Tip
Meta Agrees to Limit Teens' Time on Facebook and Instagram, Calls on TikTok and YouTube to Match
Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 251 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
iOS 27: 13 Ways the Messages App is Smarter and Less Annoying
Apple Event Livestream: Where and When to Watch on September 9
1-800-APL-CARE Now Connects You With AI Assistant Instead of Human
Leaked Images Give First Look at Apple's AI Servers
Apple Event Announced for September 9: 'Surprise and Shine'
iPhone 17 Remains World's Best Selling Smartphone
Bun 1.4 is (finally) fresh out of the oven
Node 26.8 reads and writes ZIP files
Funding better evaluations of AI’s impact on wellbeing
Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training
Expanding OpenAI’s presence in Brazil
Bringing ChatGPT for Teachers to more U.S. school districts
Learning never stops: How AI makes learning continuous
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
How loveholidays is making everyone a builder with Codex
The full stack behind abundant intelligence
Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference
Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia
Introducing the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex
Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built
Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original
Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio
How Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets Power Search on Papers with Code
Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Quoting Paul Dix
EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins!
llm-anthropic 0.27
Your executable is a SQLite database
Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
Quoting Drew Breunig
Quoting Linus Torvalds
llm 0.33
More than just code review
llm 0.32.1
llm-openrouter 0.7
Stop Making TUIs
Quoting Matt Webb
ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale
[AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro
[AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6
Lovable CTO: The Future of SaaS Is Apps That Agents Can Use
🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing
[AINews] Andrew Ng gets into AI Engineering
[AINews] 10% worse, 100x cheaper, 10000x faster: Why Simulation is taking over
The Evolution of the Agent Harness
Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
[AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud
The /wayfinder Skill: Navigating the “Fog of War” of Planning
A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers
How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
The Cloudflare Blog – Brought to you by EmDash
Say it once: introducing Bot Preference Sync
MetaRoCE: A New RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet
MTIA 300: Meta’s First Training Chip with Built-in NICs and Communication-Offloading Engines
OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage
How to evaluate LLMs before production
Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good.
The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
Close all open contributions authored by a blocked user
Enterprise-managed settings now support autoUpdate for plugin marketplaces
Global model policy generally available
GitHub Apps can now access enterprise billing data
Rule insights dashboard generally available
GitHub Copilot app Customize tab is generally available
Block users directly from security advisories
Push rules in rulesets now support path exceptions
Better tools for managing blocked users
The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack
Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK
Cursor is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
Muse Image now available on AI Gateway
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe now available on AI Gateway
Qwen 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway
GLM 5.3 Flash now available on AI Gateway
Vercel Security Dashboard is now generally available
Python projects now support routing rules
Vercel applications are protected from Next.js August 2026 security vulnerabilities
Speed Insights now has a free tier
Introducing Run SDK: secure eval for your agents
The end of credential sprawl for agents
MiniMax M3 and M2.7 are free on AI Gateway
Wan 3.0 now available on AI Gateway
AI Gateway now supports asynchronous video generation
Vercel Connect is now generally available
Chat SDK now supports Slack Enterprise Grid
Vercel Connect now supports Linq
Bring your agent to Notion with Chat SDK
Chat SDK now supports XChat
Elastic build machines now use Turborepo cache hits to prevent downgrades
Vercel Sandbox is now globally available
Environment variables now use Config and Secret types
Bun runtime now supports large functions and extended max duration
Connect v0 apps to Slack, Google, and 100+ other services
How Ora benchmarks every major AI agent on Vercel
Deployment Storage keeps your deployments rollback-ready
GPT-5.6 Sol is now 50% off a lower price
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway
Always-on tracing for production and preview traffic
Microfrontends previews now link across repositories
Manage Vercel Toolbar comments from the CLI
Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize
How to evaluate session replay software: a developer's guide
Node.js 26.8.1 (Current)
Node.js 26.8.0 (Current)
Node.js 24.20.0 (LTS)- People of Brighton (and beyond)—come to the Prince Albert on Saturday, September…
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22736
- Eavesdropping on the mandolinists preparing for this evening’s performance.
- @shaundai.com on AI hype: stop waiting for the model to save you.
- MCP is a stateless protocol now.
- @shaundai.com's product habit: walk the feature as a user first.
- I actually strive for perfect clarity with my color theme pickers.
- Website I recently visited.
- She was bluegrass when bluegrass wasn't cool, they said.
- Some weekend thoughts on how LLMs change the way we start new projects.
- Minecraft and pi are a good match.
- Some thoughts of anger vs anxiety for people in tech when it comes to what AI do…
- just got a tentative confirmation from a mathematician that i was able to get a…
- i'm formalizing React in Lean (???)
- prediction: Lean usage will explode in serious software projects in the next fiv…
- Happy birthday @chriscoyier.net 🎂🎂🎂
- WebMCP landed in ChatGPT today Websites expose tools, your agent can use them, o…
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- Meta laid off 10% of devs when the business posted record revenue+profits & real…
- It's rate to see a non-AI frontier lab build an in-house AI coding tool that wor…
- til `set -e` is “exit immediately” and `set -x` is “print commands before execut…
- Only one year in, I have finally found the final shape for the example project o…