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.name Termination
GPT-6 Astra
Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
The browser's main thread is expensive
K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet
Unusual Suspects
The asteroid currently hitting front end web development
How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?
Xanadu was waiting for agents
New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first
GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB
A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it
A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas
Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings
Four Major AI Models Suffer Rare Overlapping Downtime
Apple Sued For $2.7 Billion Over App Tracking Transparency Rules
Xbox Cloud Gaming Switches to Monthly Hour Limits
'Welcome to the AGI Era,' OpenAI Says As GPT-6 Astra Debuts
Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Center
OpenAI's New Reasoning Technique Alarms AI Safety Experts
Audacity 4 Rebuilds the Open Source Audio Editor But Leaves Some Features Behind
Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, Its Third Flash Model In Six Weeks
Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling
Perplexity Will Open Source Its Faster Lily AI Engine For Apple Silicon
Instrument Clusters Are Now Paid Extras In Two Hyundai Models
Global Heating Will Hit At Least 1.8C, UN Warns, and There Are 'No Good Outcomes'
FCC Plans Robocall Scorecard to Grade Phone Companies On Spam Call Blocking
1Password Wades Into a Right-Wing Mess After Funding a Linux Project
.name Termination
Audacity 4.0.0 Released
simple is not small
Revo Programming language
jujutsu 0.45.0
CERN transitioning industrial computers to Debian after being a longtime RHEL institution
You Don't Need Initial-Scale In Your HTML
NES dumping over audio
What's in the Emacs newcomers-presets theme?
An image only some users can see
I Think the Military Commissary Freezers Were Hacked
Announcing Rust 1.98.1
The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development
Can We Stop With the Uptime Percentages?
Souping up my blog
The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive
The NX bit is not just about security
A note on subscription prices from LWN
How Swiss Tables Work in Go’s Built-in Map
Lua-async
deforester - Logging for Janet
Static Allocation, Constant Work
How I converted BBC Micro Elite into a two-player game
WebDev intro course: what small changes towards progressive enhancement?
Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
Six Sleeps Until iPhone 18 Pro: Here's What We Know
M6 vs. M5 Pro Mac Mini Buyer's Guide
Foldable iPhone Ultra: The Latest Rumors Before Apple's Event
Apple Hit With $2.7 Billion Lawsuit Over App Tracking Rules
Apple's 2026 Studio Display Gets Steep $214 Discount on Amazon
iPhone Ultra's Very High Price and Features Revealed in New Report
Apple Apparently Cancels Plans for Two New MacBooks
Mini-LED MacBook Pro Models Could Stick Around Until 2028
'MacBook Ultra' Rumored to Have M5 Ultra Chip Option
Apple Reportedly Planning All-New MacBook Model Between Air and Pro
iPhone 18 Pro Chip Leak Indicates Major GPU and Memory Bandwidth Improvements
iPhone 18 Pro Prices Estimated Ahead of Apple Event Next Week
Anker's New MindBase Home Hub Runs AI Locally, Doubles as NAS
Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok Are Down on iPhone and Web
Govee Debuts $400 Matter-Enabled Sky Ceiling Light
Rare Working Apple-1 Could Fetch $800,000 at Auction
iOS 27 Introduces New 'iPhone Handoff' Feature
'I Wouldn't Be Talking to You': Apple Shares Apple Watch Survival Story
Open the Current App's Settings From Control Center
Apple's New Mac Mini Already Discounted - See the Pre-Order Deals
How to fit Minesweeper into 247 bytes
Bun now passes 80.5% of Node's test suite
Improving our alignment and security efforts
Developing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with our customers
Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services
Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra
Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra
Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra
ATV Big Air Tour turned 3 days of work into 3 hours with ChatGPT
How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability
Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT
How law firm Gilbert + Tobin governs and scales AI with OpenAI
OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safety
Polimill builds Japan's next-generation public AI infrastructure
A milestone in expanding access to AI
Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder
Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv
Real-Time Intelligence with IBM Time Series Models on Confluent
BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?
Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI
August newsletter is out
GPT‑6 Astra
llm-gemini 0.34
Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
Quoting Rick Brewster
Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican
Codex bundles LibreOffice
GeoJSON Map Viewer
Quoting Tarn Adams
datasette-mcp 0.2
Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!
Introducing wrapture
Quoting Andrew Digby
Understanding ChatGPT Work
Introducing Hy4 Preview
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
[AINews] GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI’s biggest LLM launch of all time
GPT-6 Astra: an automated AI Engineer you can hire for <$6 an hour
[AINews] Muse Spark 1.3 matches GPT-5.6-Sol, confirming Meta Superintelligence as the newest Frontier Lab, >90% discount for training
[AINews] Claude Fable/Mythos 5.1: new SOTA model, 75% cache price cut but 70% more output tokens
PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors
[AINews] Fal’s H3 Max Live breaks the infinite videogen barrier
[AINews] OpenAI shuts off Cursor
[AINews] OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026
MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale
Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation with Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak models
How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora
Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: Undermining the economics of every bot attack
BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents
ZGateway: Learnings from Putting a Proxy in Front of ZippyDB
An Organizational Second Brain: Building an AI That Learns From Experts
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once
Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!
How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality
Multiple trusted publishing configurations for npm
GitHub Actions: Early September 2026 updates
Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models
GitHub CLI Linux package signing key expires September 5
Gemini 3.8 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot
Reopening Copilot Business and Enterprise signups
CodeQL 2.26.4 improves GitHub actions security detections
Enterprise-managed settings support any default model
Content exclusions generally available in Copilot app and CLI
Enterprise Live Migrations from GHES to ghe.com generally available
Cursor Cloud Agents can now run in Vercel Sandbox
Basic build machines are now available on Pro and Enterprise
Free domain with Pro offer now includes .app and .dev
Muse Spark 1.3 now available on AI Gateway
GLM-5.3 is 50% off through DigitalOcean on AI Gateway
Gemini 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway
Compute that takes any shape
Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 now available on AI Gateway
Claude Fable 5.1 now available on AI Gateway
AWS PrivateLink is now available on Pro and Enterprise
fx is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
Set per-user budgets on AI Gateway
How our agents build on-brand pages with design.md
Vercel Sandbox now calculates snapshot storage costs daily
MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are 50% off on AI Gateway
Testing cookie behavior across hundreds of web surfaces with our in-house auditor
Making Rust observability reliable at scale with OpenTelemetry
Application Metrics caught my broken size estimator
From one switch to a control panel: meet `dataCollection`- My LLM cliché highlighter is up to 38 patterns now tools.simonwillison.net/llm-c…
- A few notes on Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 - with Max thinking level I got…
- Just noticed the ChatGPT desktop app (previously named Codex) bundles a full cop…
- Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22750
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22747
- Journal: Salter Cane this Saturday An excellent triple bill in The Prince Albert…
- Ticket-taking used to feel like the job.
- AI is not a silver bullet.
- @shaundai.com's homework: try Josh Comeau's Whimsical Animations without AI.
- 46 It's my birthday!
- Wrote about what's up in angle brackets land.
- Resting is so much more restful when you’re rested.
- If you look at a release like Astra I feel like you can only draw the conclusion…
- okay, it's out github.com/gaearon/conw...
- preparing to publish my vibecoded math lean proof to github and i kinda feel ner…
- found the magic prompt that fixes all my Lean.
- I am begging you to stop using AI to write your video scripts.
- When I was advocating for nogil/free-threading, I always said that it’s importan…