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Gadgets & Consumer Techabout 2 months ago

Walmart and Sam’s Club Tap-to-Pay Rollout Starts August 24

Select U.S. Walmart stores and Sam’s Club locations will begin accepting eligible contactless cards, phones and smartwatches on August 24, 2026. All stores and clubs are planned by the end of 2026, followed by fuel stations in mid-2027.

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AIabout 2 months ago

OpenAI Lowers GPT-5.6 Sol API Prices Through at Least November 21

GPT-5.6 Sol now costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens under promotional pricing available at least through November 21, 2026. Prompts above 272K input tokens use higher rates for the full request.

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Cloud & Developer Toolsabout 2 months ago

GitHub Traces 7-Hour 47-Minute Outage to Capacity and Retry Failures

GitHub says an autoscaling blind spot contributed to load-balancer saturation on August 17, while internal and client retries amplified traffic and delayed recovery.

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AIabout 2 months ago

OpenAI previews cross-interaction safety checks for Zero Data Retention customers

Private Safety Processing is being tested with early customers. OpenAI says it can detect patterns across related interactions without giving personnel the underlying content, but the technical paper and measurable results are still pending.

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Gadgets & Consumer Tech2 months ago

Fairphone Gen. 6+ brings a focused hardware refresh to the US

Fairphone’s Gen. 6+ is a processor-and-memory refresh, not a redesign. TechCrunch reports direct U.S. availability with standard Android from $649, while the official specifications retain modular repairs, long support promises and clear connectivity limits.

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AI2 months ago

Qwen3.8-27B Makes Reasoning Effort a Deployment Control

Alibaba’s Qwen team released a 27-billion-parameter open-weight model with tunable reasoning depth and a 262,144-token native context. The extra control brings latency, memory and task-quality tradeoffs that operators need to test.

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AI2 months ago

The harder test for LLM mathematics is finding new methods

OpenAI reports ten results from its internal Astra model. Timothy Gowers argues that search-tree pruning and genuinely new methods are a harder capability test than result volume.

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AI2 months ago

Why Hugging Face Download Counts Aren’t Model-Adoption Numbers

Hugging Face found only one repository in both its top 25 by downloads recorded during its 2026 measurement window and its top 25 by likes. The mismatch shows why request counts cannot stand in for users or production deployments.

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AI2 months ago

Gemini 3.7 Flash Is GA, but Its 2026 Price Is Temporary

Google’s production model adds a new Flash target for coding and agents. Developers should budget for a January 1 price increase and retest migration settings, thinking levels and vendor benchmarks.

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Cloud & Developer Tools2 months ago

Mistral makes regional inference generally available and previews priority routing

Mistral’s EU and US endpoints now offer region-specific inference processing, while Priority Tier adds SLA-backed priority queueing in public preview. The control plane remains global, and third-party model support begins with a planned GLM-5.2 integration.

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AI2 months ago

Anthropic’s New Claude Models Add Output Marks That Do Not Prove Authorship

Anthropic is adding imperceptible marks to text and signed C2PA metadata to supported files. Coverage begins with Claude models launched in the EU on or after August 2, 2026, while detection remains an incomplete signal rather than proof of authorship.

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Tech Business & Markets2 months ago

NVIDIA Signs AI Compute Financing MOUs With a $500B-Plus Target

NVIDIA and six financial institutions plan independent platforms to finance NVIDIA-based AI infrastructure, but final agreements, firm commitments, terms and deployment dates remain undisclosed.

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AI2 months ago

Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model for local agents

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter multimodal model designed for local agents, coding and tool use. The weights are available now under Apache 2.0, but Meta’s performance figures are vendor-reported and practical deployment targets a demanding 24GB or 32GB memory envelope.

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Cloud & Developer Tools2 months ago

Claude Code Will Start New Pro, Max and Team Sessions in Auto Mode on August 14

Claude Code will start new Pro, Max and Team sessions in auto mode from August 14, 2026. Existing pinned and organization-managed defaults remain unchanged.

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Cloud & Developer Tools2 months ago

Claude Code 2.1.224 Adds Messaging Between Independent Sessions

Anthropic’s cross-session messaging lets Claude Code sessions exchange plain-text updates without transferring histories, files or approvals, but support is limited to macOS and Linux.

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Cloud & Developer Tools2 months ago

Agent Plugins 1.0 Sets a Portable Floor for Skills and MCP Servers

The open format standardizes a root manifest and fixed component locations, while installation, permissions, distribution and product-specific packaging remain with each client.

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Cloud & Developer Tools2 months ago

Meta’s Muse Code Beta Uses Persistent Agents for Repository-Scale Work

Meta’s new terminal coding agent uses Muse Spark 1.2, persistent background agents and a local event log. The beta supports macOS and Linux, while performance claims remain vendor-reported.

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Gadgets & Consumer Tech2 months ago

Google Email Sets September 4 Start for Assistant Removal on Android

A user email says Google will begin removing Assistant access from Android phones and tablets on September 4, with paired devices affected too.

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Tech Business & Markets2 months ago

Bending Spoons Agrees to Acquire Airtable in $1.285 Billion Deal

The all-cash agreement values Airtable at $1.285 billion on an enterprise basis and approximately $2.25 billion in equity, but closing still depends on regulatory and customary conditions.

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AI3 months ago

Qwen3.8-Max Arrives on QwenCloud; Open Weights Are Promised Next Week

Qwen’s new 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model is available through QwenCloud with an advertised 1-million-token context window. The downloadable weights have not shipped yet, and the performance evidence remains largely vendor-reported.

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Startups & Venture3 months ago

LemonEdge Raises $21M Series A Led by Blackstone Innovations Investments

LemonEdge announced a $21 million Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments to support product work and expansion in the US and Europe.

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Chips & Deep Tech3 months ago

DEF CON 34 Badge Debuts a Mostly Open-Source RISC-V Chip

DEF CON 34's electronic badge uses Baochip-1x, a mostly open-source RISC-V chip whose published software and hardware design can be examined alongside its physical die.

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Cloud & Developer Tools3 months ago

DeepSeek Opens V4 Flash API Public Beta for Agent Workflows

DeepSeek’s July 31 update puts V4 Flash in public beta without changing the API call shape. Responses API support and current limits are documented; its benchmark results remain vendor-reported.

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AI3 months ago

OpenAI Says Two Harness Settings Changed GPT-5.6 Sol’s ARC-AGI-3 Score

OpenAI reports that retained reasoning and compaction changed GPT-5.6 Sol’s ARC-AGI-3 public-set score from 13.3% to 38.3%. The model did not change.

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Cloud & Developer Tools3 months ago

MCP 2026-07-28 Moves the Core Protocol to Stateless Requests

The final MCP 2026-07-28 specification removes protocol-level sessions and initialization from the modern path. Implementers now need to handle per-request negotiation, new result and subscription flows, and explicit compatibility boundaries.

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