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AINews: Weekday Roundups

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] 10% worse, 100x cheaper, 10000x faster: Why Simulation is taking over
LockSimple

Aug 22, 2026

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23 min read

[AINews] 10% worse, 100x cheaper, 10000x faster: Why Simulation is taking over

Did you think RSI stopped at model training?

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud
LockSimple

Aug 20, 2026

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21 min read

[AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud

Yes, we’re confused too.

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Death of Params: Z.ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5.3 and the new Post-training Scaling Law
LockSimple

Aug 19, 2026

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23 min read

[AINews] Death of Params: Z.ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5.3 and the new Post-training Scaling Law

Every lab CEO is on X now

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months
LockSimple

Aug 19, 2026

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24 min read

[AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months

the Memory crunch continues - Moore’s Law reversed to 2007 levels

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B
LockSimple

Aug 17, 2026

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21 min read

[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B

No GPUs, no Agents, just really, really, really good infra and distribution.

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Cursor's $60B acquisition by SpaceXai closes

Aug 13, 2026

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21 min read

[AINews] Cursor's $60B acquisition by SpaceXai closes

Congrats to the team!

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Gemini 3.7 Flash brings GDM back to the forefront
LockSimple

Aug 13, 2026

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19 min read

[AINews] Gemini 3.7 Flash brings GDM back to the forefront

Down, but not out!

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot
LockSimple

Aug 12, 2026

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21 min read

[AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot

AI teammate category just had its most significant new entrant yet

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] How to steal a Reasoning Trace
LockSimple

Aug 12, 2026

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22 min read

[AINews] How to steal a Reasoning Trace

Speculative Decoding by any other name would distil as sweet

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise
LockSimple

Aug 10, 2026

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24 min read

[AINews] Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise

a small win for american open models - Glimmer runs on a fits on a single RTX 3090!

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Zawinski's Law of MultiAgents
LockSimple

Aug 7, 2026

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17 min read

[AINews] Zawinski's Law of MultiAgents

a quiet day lets us find some connections among recent themes

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] AMD buys Taalas
LockSimple

Aug 6, 2026

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18 min read

[AINews] AMD buys Taalas

The Inference Inflection is HEATING up.

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???
LockSimple

Aug 5, 2026

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18 min read

[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???

The end of an era.

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so back
LockSimple

Aug 4, 2026

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23 min read

[AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so back

A quiet day lets us highlight a Cursor launch and an engineering debate

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork
LockSimple

Aug 3, 2026

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34 min read

[AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork

Qwen is so back!

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] not much happened today
LockSimple

Jul 31, 2026

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23 min read

[AINews] not much happened today

apart from DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731, a quiet day.

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] GPT 5.6 price cut by 20%-80%: Cost of GPT 5.4 Intelligence dropped 13x in 4 months due to GPT 5.6 recursive self-optimization
LockSimple

Jul 30, 2026

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20 min read

[AINews] GPT 5.6 price cut by 20%-80%: Cost of GPT 5.4 Intelligence dropped 13x in 4 months due to GPT 5.6 recursive self-optimization

Distillation is all you need!

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] AI is eating Finance; AIE NYC now open
LockSimple

Jul 29, 2026

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25 min read

[AINews] AI is eating Finance; AIE NYC now open

a quiet day lets us cover how AI is permeating financial services as the next big vertical after coding.

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Fearing RSI: OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, Meta, Thinky cosign letter to "Pace" AI development, as HuggingFace details Machine-Speed Offensive Cyberattack
LockSimple

Jul 28, 2026

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22 min read

[AINews] Fearing RSI: OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, Meta, Thinky cosign letter to "Pace" AI development, as HuggingFace details Machine-Speed Offensive Cyberattack

The Big Pause is coming.

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Much ado about Open Weights
LockSimple

Jul 27, 2026

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16 min read

[AINews] Much ado about Open Weights

Everyone is writing a lot, but only Kimi K3 shipped today

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Claude Opus 5: Fable-level performance at Opus price (half Fable)
LockSimple

Jul 25, 2026

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20 min read

[AINews] Claude Opus 5: Fable-level performance at Opus price (half Fable)

ain't nobody beats Anthropic at distilling Fable!

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 - Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine, and FLUX-mimic video-action robotics model
LockSimple

Jul 23, 2026

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18 min read

[AINews] Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 - Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine, and FLUX-mimic video-action robotics model

A HUGE win for BFL!

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] "Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro"
LockSimple

Jul 22, 2026

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21 min read

[AINews] "Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro"

a quiet day lets us highlight a new neolab win.

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] AI Cybersecurity becomes top of mind
LockSimple

Jul 21, 2026

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22 min read

[AINews] AI Cybersecurity becomes top of mind

Several new Cyber headlines make us observe a trend

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] not much happened today
LockSimple

Jul 20, 2026

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18 min read

[AINews] not much happened today

a quiet day.