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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2
Reversing MikroTik's Silent Patch: The RouterOS 7.23.4 Fix They Wouldn't Explain
The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting
I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=none). Then I…
Show HN: Moadim.io – A scheduler for agents
Why can't we get an agent scheduler that supports all of the following: - git compatible - agent agnostic - 100% open source - os and system-agnostic - multi-runner support - support mcp/ui/http - unlimited…
Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
Connecting every app to every other app
After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
Can guitar frets perform multiplication?
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
Icons as a Service
GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor
Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the rounds. The final version of the new icon isn't nearly as bad as the…
Updates on HEIR, the Homomorphic Encryption Compiler Project
Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
"It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
The White House is making arcade games racist
The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed "arcade" games, some of which are racist - and modeled on real games whose copyright holders may not be too happy to be associated…
Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
GoPro says it’s still committed ‘to your collective stoke’
GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company's "core DNA," after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week. He claims the merger puts…
Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip
It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip…
OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI.…
“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
AGI is whatever you want it to be
OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that "the AGI era" is here now. Today on The Vergecast, we've got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week. First, senior AI reporter…
Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day.
A ratings board wouldn't let Valve release a trailer. It "leaked" it instead.
"I think we can't get in trouble for that now. It's like 20 years ago."
Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed
Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice.
Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.
Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright…
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated workflow cost. Now available as a research preview in GitHub Copilot.
How Yahoo optimizes resources with flexible VMs in Managed Service for Apache Spark
As a global media and technology company connecting hundreds of millions of users to finance, sports, and entertainment platforms, Yahoo operates a massive data infrastructure where analytics workloads must run…
Spanner migrations: Automating dual-write with Antigravity CLI for minimal disruption
When Google's Finance Engineering team needed to modernize their legacy data layer, they chose Spanner , a globally distributed, strongly consistent, multi-model database with high availability capabilities. But…
Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo
Saying X is “formerly Twitter” in App Store lets Musk block use of Twitter name.
The best tech and gadgets announced at IFA so far
The doors to Europe's largest consumer tech show officially opened to the public today following a week of news coming out of IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany. If you're struggling to keep up with what has been announced,…
Not All LLM Workloads Are Equal: Benchmarking TPU Performance on Classification vs. Generation
Moving Large Language Models (LLMs) from experimental prototypes into enterprise production exposes a critical truth: your infrastructure dictates both your performance ceilings and your unit economics. Standard…
Alienware’s refurbished 16 Aurora is almost $200 off at Woot
Gaming laptop deals aren’t what they used to be (stares daggers at RAMageddon), which is why I consider Woot’s deal on a refurbished Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop with Nvidia’s RTX 5050 a pretty good deal at $927…
What to expect at Apple’s September 9th launch event
Apple's September 9th launch event could be one of its biggest in years. It will be Apple's first event since John Ternus took over as CEO on September 1st, stepping in for Tim Cook, and will likely feature the first…
Nintendo’s next two Direct events are both happening next week
Nintendo just announced two Direct events for next week, scheduled back to back. First up is the Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on September 8th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT. It's set to last around 30 minutes,…
CPU + GPU: Why AI platform engineering is a heterogeneous infrastructure problem
AI infrastructure conversations often start with GPUs. Accelerators provide much of the compute behind model training and inference, so the focus is understandable. But a production AI workload rarely starts and ends on…
Kubernetes isn’t new, but AI makes It scary again
Kubernetes isn’t brand new anymore. Yet, for many teams, adopting it still feels intimidating. Even if you’ve watched Kubernetes become the default foundation for production software and AI workloads, it can still feel…
How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent
Ryan chats with Greg Jennings, VP of Engineering for AI Products at Anaconda, about what it takes to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent, why prompts shouldn't be treated as strict security guardrails, and how…
What’s new with Google Cloud
Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to…
August newsletter is out
The August edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: We got more details on OpenAl's accidental cyberattacks…
Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation with Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak models
Use production traffic and security signals to prioritize findings, prepare edge mitigations when safe, and propose code patches. By combining WAF data with OpenAI Daybreak models, Vulnerability Discovery and…
GPT‑6 Astra
GPT‑6 Astra GPT-6 Astra is "rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API…
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager IPAM in additional Azure regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager IP address management is now generally available in additional regions: US Gov Virginia, US Gov Texas and US Gov Arizona, and China North 3 and China East 3. In complex network…
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once
Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful.
What’s new with Google Data Cloud
August 31 - September 4 Stateful processing is available in BigQuery continuous queries in Preview Stateful operations significantly expand what’s possible with BigQuery continuous queries. This feature allows users to…
Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6
In our 2026.6 release, we are shipping updates across administrative security, programmatic API control, developer portal integrations, and platform-wide accessibility—ensuring both your engineers and your AI agents act…
Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services
OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.
NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder
Join OSPOlogy + OSPO Summit China 2026 in Shanghai
There’s still time to join OSPOlogy + OSPO Summit China 2026, taking place on September 7, 2026, in Shanghai, China as part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China. This event will...
Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra
Legora used GPT-6 Astra to review 41 documents in minutes, find all four planted errors, and improve performance by nearly 40% in this financial-review workflow.
Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra
Using GPT-6 Astra, Playco built three themed game prototypes from one grey box foundation and reported 50% fewer manual fixes than with the previous model.
Migrating a critical Kubernetes deployment from the default namespace without any downtime
Somewhere in your cluster there’s probably a deployment sitting in the default namespace that everyone knows shouldn’t be there. Nobody put it there maliciously, it just happened, early on, before anyone had opinions…
Announcing the Google Gen AI SDK for Kotlin 1.0: Idiomatic multiplatform access to Gemini
Integrating modern generative AI capabilities into Kotlin applications shouldn't require juggling raw HTTP clients or bridging disparate Java libraries. Today, we're excited to announce the 1.0 release of the Google Gen…
The economics of agent scale: tokens, ROI, and building platforms for AI-first teams (Part 2)
Andi Gutmans, head of Agentic Data Cloud at Google, returns for the second half of his Leaders of Code conversation to talk through the cost and infrastructure side of agentic development. ICYMI, part one covered…
Google named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services
For the ninth consecutive year, Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services , positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision. We believe this recognition…
Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv
Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.
Bliki: Paracelsus Maxim
The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. Often we talk about certain habits, in programming or life, are good or bad. But few things are simple binaries. Some vary with context: reading a book is a good…
Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!
From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations.
How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality
Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task.
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Front Door profile and route level WAF policies
Azure Front Door’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) now supports profile and route level WAF policy associations in public preview. This gives you more flexibility to apply broad baseline protection across an Azure Front…
[In preview] Public Preview: Reader Endpoint for Azure Database for MySQL
We’re happy to announce the public preview of reader endpoint support to simplify connection management when using multiple replicas in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server. A reader endpoint enables automatic…
llm-gemini 0.34
Release: llm-gemini 0.34 New model gemini-3.8-flash for Gemini 3.8 Flash , with low, medium and high thinking levels. #146 Fixed async responses failing to record the resolved model version. Thanks, Charlie Tonneslan .…
Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Getting started with Mantis, our open-source bug finding-and-fixing harness
AI models have clearly proven their ability to discover and exploit vulnerabilities without much, if any, human assistance. To help defenders gain the advantage with AI, we built the Mantis harness to automate the…
An Accidental Blackboard
Giles Edwards-Alexander reports that during an experiment to see how productive a team could be using fully agentic engineering practices, the team accidentally prompted the agents into creating a blackboard…
Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications ( Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and that they share not just…
Real-Time Intelligence with IBM Time Series Models on Confluent
Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code
TL;DR Or, perhaps the problem isn't that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we've been using code review to solve the wrong problems I was on a panel recently with Brian Houck from DX at Code Remix, hosted by…
ATV Big Air Tour turned 3 days of work into 3 hours with ChatGPT
ATV Big Air Tour uses ChatGPT Work to speed up marketing, merchandising, and more. It even turned merchandise photos into an inventory website in 15 minutes.
Metal3 meets KubeVirtBMC: Provisioning KubeVirt VMs like bare metal
In the previous post , we introduced KubeVirtBMC and showed how it provides virtual BMC endpoints for KubeVirt VMs. We tested it with raw IPMI and Redfish commands. That was fun, but the real power of...
Quoting Rick Brewster
Direct2D has always been the biggest hurdle for Paint.NET on WINE, and it's clear that it will never be completed enough for Paint.NET's use. And I can't just "disable" the use of Direct2D. So, instead, Paint.NET now…
Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican
Today is Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day . Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 "sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks". Their announcement spends a notable amount of time on…
[Launched] Generally Available: Microsoft Defender for Cloud support for Azure Container Apps (Serverless Containers Posture)
Customers can now bring Azure Container Apps environments into Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s Serverless Containers Posture experience, helping security teams extend posture management across more of their container…
[Launched] Generally Available: Windows Server 2025 on AKS
Organizations running Windows-based workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) face increasing pressure to modernize as support timelines for older Windows Server versions approach retirement. To help customers…
[Launched] Generally Available: Artifact Streaming on AKS
You can now accelerate your containerized workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Azure Container Registry (ACR) with Artifact streaming. Artifact streaming will allow you to scale your workloads without…
[Launched] Generally Available: Confidential VMs for Azure Linux
Confidential Virtual Machines (CVM) offer strong security and confidentiality for tenants. CVM for Azure Linux in AKS is now generally available and enables node pools with CVM to target the migration of highly…
BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?
Fragments: September 1
Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of…
Codex bundles LibreOffice
I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called…
[Launched] Generally Available: Purchase order mapping available in Microsoft Marketplace
Align Microsoft Marketplace purchases to your business's accounting needs. Purchase order mapping helps allocate your Microsoft invoice, including Marketplace purchases, making it easier to reconcile your organization's…
GeoJSON Map Viewer
Tool: GeoJSON Map Viewer I was helping Natalie gather some maps of local political boundaries (for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council ) and found a need to display some GeoJSON…
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Firewall auto-learn SNAT routes
Azure Firewall’s auto-learn SNAT routes is now generally available, automatically learning registered and private destination prefixes periodically and applying them as No-SNAT ranges to preserve original source IPs and…
Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
Quoting Tarn Adams
They took the letters from me! I have to talk about dwarf behavior now. I can't even talk about dwarf AI. It doesn't exist. It's dwarf behavior , and they misbehave sometimes — Tarn Adams , co-creator of Dwarf Fortress…
How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability
Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. See what enterprise leaders can apply.
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Copilot Observability Agent supports Basic and Auxiliary table plans
Azure Copilot Observability Agent, an AI-powered operational companion in Azure Monitor, is now covering Log Analytics data in Basic and Auxiliary table plans during interactive analysis and deep investigations. Teams…
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Monitor Auxiliary Logs Plan in Azure Government and China regions
The Auxiliary table plan in Azure Monitor Logs is a cost-effective option for ingesting and retaining high-volume, verbose logs used for compliance and auditing. Auxiliary Logs is now generally available in the…
datasette-mcp 0.2
Release: datasette-mcp 0.2 "rows" from execute_sql is now an array of objects. Previously it was an array of arrays. This should help weaker models avoid losing track of which positional array element maps to which…
Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora
Could we get more cache space with the same hardware? We prototyped compression inside Cloudflare's cache to find out.
Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT
ChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more.
Platform engineering maturity: From toolchain to self-service
Most platform engineering conversations tend to split into two rooms pretty quickly. The first room is full of teams who don’t have a platform yet. Scattered scripts, tribal knowledge, and every team is doing the same...
The good ol’ days of building Java
Ryan sits down with Tim Lindholm, an early contributor to the Java language at Sun Microsystems, to chat about what it was like building one of the most popular programming languages ever at its inception, why it was…
Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI
Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now generally available
Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 are now generally available, delivering up to 25% better compute performance than R8g, ideal for databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)
The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical…
Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: Undermining the economics of every bot attack
Bot operators have historically had the economic advantage, bypassing static, deterministic detection rules with cheap proxies and retooling. Cloudflare's new Adaptive Intelligence engine flips this dynamic by…
OpenTelemetry has graduated… now what?
In case you missed it: OpenTelemetry (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status! It now stands proudly alongside amazing open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus, to name just a few. It’s been a…
Observability in Kubernetes: From metrics to meaning
Kubernetes made infrastructure more programmable, scalable, and resilient. It also made production systems harder to reason about. Workloads move, replicas churn, dependencies multiply, and a single user request can…
BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents
Bot operators now have a home in the Cloudflare dashboard to manage submissions. This update adds submission status tracking, submission editing, and a behavior model so operators can accurately declare how their bots…
When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct
Ryan chats with Leo de Moura, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS and the creator of the Lean language, about proving correctness in AI agents with the Lean language, how automated reasoning complements…
The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language
How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first six months.
Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI
Lots of organizations are excited about what AI can do to streamline their processes, save money, and juice margins. But AI's capabilities are founded on the data that AI accesses, and for many organizations that…
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage
Managing library updates can be tedious at times. Learn how the GitHub Copilot app can handle this type of repetitive task.
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
How to evaluate LLMs before production
These are the lessons we learned evaluating LLMs for real-world secret scanning.