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Cloud & Developer Toolsabout 11 hours agoBy megan

AWS Emulator brings local API testing to developers, with fidelity limits

AWS has released a local emulator for its APIs. It can shorten application and CI test loops without an AWS account, but IAM policies, regional behavior, and service fidelity still need checks in AWS.

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Chips & Deep Tech1 day agoBy megan

AMD's EPYC 9006 SP7 server CPUs reach general availability

AMD says its Zen 6 server lineup reaches 256 cores and that systems are shipping. Azure and Oracle Cloud instances are still forthcoming.

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Chips & Deep Tech2 days agoBy Jey Geethan

TPU 8tx targets confidential inference; 8i Max expands bandwidth

Google announced two eighth-generation TPU systems on November 9, 2026. TPU 8tx pairs existing 8t silicon with a confidential-computing design; 8i Max packages two 8i chips for higher listed compute and memory bandwidth. The announcement gives no availability date or independent results for the new systems.

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Cloud & Developer Tools4 days agoBy megan

Google acquires Crusoe’s Wyoming data center site as power build remains planned

Crusoe says Google has acquired its Wyoming site after pre-development work. A 702 MW fuel-cell project and carbon-capture components remain planned, with the power facility expected to be fully operational by the end of 2028.

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AI5 days agoBy megan

Meta updates Muse and Meta AI with memory and task-focus models

Specialized models trained using Muse Wonder are rolling out to both products. Meta reports better use of earlier context and task recovery, but provides limited evaluation detail.

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AI6 days agoBy megan

Inkling 2 Small arrives on Tinker, with open weights still planned

Thinking Machines Lab’s new mixture-of-experts model accepts text and images through Tinker. Full weights and downloadable checkpoints remain pending safety testing.

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Cloud & Developer Tools7 days agoBy megan

Conductor Cloud closes November 20: what users need to export

Conductor says hosted workspaces become read-only on November 13 before shutdown and data deletion begin on November 20. Here are the stated export options.

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AI8 days agoBy megan

Anthropic’s FlashProve prototype checks AI output one token at a time

Anthropic tested cryptographic proofs for a quantized Llama 4 Maverick configuration, allowing a CPU to check a token against committed model weights without seeing them. Its 1,024-token context and high proving cost leave routine API use unproven.

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Cybersecurity9 days agoBy megan

OpenAI raises security bug bounties and adds report-quality bonuses

OpenAI says it has raised reward ranges for medium, high and critical security findings and added quality, loyalty and priority-campaign bonuses. Researchers still need to check the live program terms.

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AI10 days agoBy megan

GDPx gives its top AI model a 12.0% composite score

SemiAnalysis’s new benchmark tests agents on 206 tasks across 11 domains. Its headline score combines different grading methods, so it is not the share of tasks solved.

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Cloud & Developer Tools11 days agoBy megan

AWS sales rose 39% to $46 billion in Q3 as Amazon added AI capacity

Amazon reported $17.8 billion in AWS operating income and described rapid infrastructure expansion. Cloud buyers still need to check capacity, quotas and costs for their own workloads and locations.

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Chips & Deep Tech12 days agoBy Jey Geethan

Google’s orbital TPU returns its first Gemma 4 response

Google says its Project Suncatcher prototype ran a model in orbit and returned a short response. Radiation, thermal and satellite-link tests still lie ahead.

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AI13 days agoBy megan

Mistral releases Large 4 weights for self-hosting

The 29 October release adds a downloadable checkpoint to the model previewed earlier this month. Its scale, serving requirements and Model-as-a-Service licence condition matter for teams considering deployment.

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Software & Platforms15 days agoBy megan

Apple plans MCP access for Keynote, Pages and Numbers

Apple says a November Creator Studio update will let external agents read and edit content in the three apps. Beta assistants have separate device and language limits.

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AI16 days agoBy megan

Opera One previews WebAI for on-device browser AI

Websites and extensions can call local models through browser APIs, but use is opt-in and limited to supported desktop hardware.

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Gadgets & Consumer Tech17 days agoBy megan

iPhone Duo: Replaceable layer, complex display repair

iFixit found a serviceable protective layer, accessible batteries and a dense hinge. Apple's guidance shows why the cover layer still needs specialist handling.

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AI18 days agoBy megan

Block previews Dessa voice model, with no public release yet

Block says its speech-only model can listen and respond at the same time. The public page has demos and hardware claims, but no usable download or API.

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Cloud & Developer Tools19 days agoBy megan

Anthropic Donates Agent Skills to AAIF; Builders Still Need Client Tests

Anthropic has moved the Agent Skills format to the Agentic AI Foundation. The published format describes reusable skill folders, but proposed governance and security work is still ahead, and client behavior must be tested separately.

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Software & Platforms20 days agoBy megan

Arc for macOS and Windows will stop working on 22 December 2026

The Browser Company has closed new Arc accounts and set a desktop shutdown date. Existing users can import into Dia or export tab links before access ends.

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AI21 days agoBy megan

Recursive Flint’s local Mac setup calls for at least 48GB of memory

The coding model activates about 2.5B of its 39.8B parameters per token, but its laptop route uses separate 4-bit weights. Recursive’s BF16 checkpoint targets a different, larger hardware setup.

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Cloud & Developer Tools22 days agoBy megan

OpenAI models enter Google Cloud in private preview

Google says selected enterprise customers can test GPT-Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna through Model Garden. Broader access and several product integrations are still planned.

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Cloud & Developer Tools23 days agoBy megan

TorchNeuron beta gives AWS Trainium a native PyTorch backend

Neuron 2.33 adds a neuron device and eager and compiled execution on Trainium2 and Trainium3. Operator and shape limits still make workload-level testing essential.

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AI25 days agoBy megan

DeepSeek’s Flash API aliases now serve V4.1-Flash-1017

DeepSeek changed the model behind its Flash API names on October 17 while keeping the calling method and pricing unchanged. Teams should test their own prompts, tool calls and output handling against the new checkpoint.

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AI26 days agoBy megan

Jev reached 35.3% of Vercel AI Gateway’s paid teams, but 0.27% of spend

Vercel’s October 15 index shows broad early use of a decision model on its own gateway. Team reach and estimated spend measure different things; neither establishes wider market adoption or model quality.

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AI27 days agoBy content

Apple runs Muse Spark Open across two M5 Ultra Mac Studios

Meta’s open weights are available alongside hosted APIs, but Apple’s local MLX test shows why the 816B-parameter model needs more than one top-memory Mac. Its 4-bit footprint is about 493GB before inference overhead.

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