The platform companies shaping AI distribution, cloud, and product power.
Ten things from this week’s episode that changed what I’m doing in my own build. Harry, Rory and I covered a lot on Thursday: Nvidia’s 70% guide, the $12.9B Hugging Face deal, OpenAI cutting off Cursor, Cognition at $46B.
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I-Chiun Precision Industry is accelerating its shift from LED lead frames into high-end thermal solutions, with thermal products now accounting for 40-45% of revenue. The company expects the share to exceed 50% as early as the second half of 2026 or in 2027 and to rise above 60% over the medium to long term.
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When Nio CEO William Li outlined earnings prospects for the Shanghai-based carmaker in March, he could not help but liken the automotive business to the development of robots.
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Foxconn said August sales rose sharply from a year earlier as demand for AI servers and related hardware continued to lift its cloud and networking business. The latest update suggests the global electronics supply chain remains supported, even as investors closely watch shifts in trade, policy, and consumer demand.
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As semiconductor designs advance toward trillion-transistor packages, the traditional engineering playbook of simply adding more personnel or running legacy software faster has hit a wall, a top Nvidia executive warned Tuesday.
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Chunghwa Precision Test Technology said demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) is driving a surge in advanced testing interface business, while ASIC revenue is set to grow rapidly and catch up with GPU sales.
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Nvidia used IFA 2026 to argue that serious AI work can run locally as well as in the cloud, pairing an October launch date for its RTX Spark Windows PCs with free software that distributes independent inference requests across compatible machines already on a local network.
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Adobe's leadership change signals a broader shift in how major software companies are positioning themselves for an AI-driven market. The move may affect customers, partners, and investors worldwide as the company deepens its focus on agentic software, customer experience tools, and productivity products.
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Nvidia's agreement to buy Hugging Face for roughly US$13 billion is being framed by analysts less as a move into software than as insurance against three ways its core business could deteriorate: cheaper open-weight models eroding the frontier labs that buy its chips, those same labs diversifying their silicon, and...
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As artificial intelligence services, collaboration platforms, and cloud-native business applications proliferate cybersecurity strategies built around yesterday's workplace may no longer be sufficient. The post Browser-based work is creating a new cybersecurity battleground appeared first on Digital Journal.
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On June 29, 2026, Gavin Newsom signed SB 122. Effective January 1, 2027, California sales and use tax applies to prewritten software and SaaS, however it’s delivered.
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Alibaba Cloud's Qwen3.8-Max-0902 scores 1,691 on Code Arena's WebDev leaderboard, beating Claude Opus 5 by 3 points at $2/M input tokens vs. rivals' $10—redefining AI cost-performance in 2026.
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An important essay on the state of AI and the choices and challenges ahead: for OpenAI, the field, and the world. we're in the AGI era, and need to approach the next few years with seriousness, thoughtful deliberation, and navigating the collective...
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@theojaffeeHopefully the fact that OpenAI is spending $220k - $2.5M+ per year *per researcher* on frontier tokens (and this has inflected upwards in recent months) should kill any remaining cope that businesses will "just use cheaper Chinese open source models"
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@trapitbansalFun fact: RLSlow was named after Thinking, Fast and Slow. The idea was that language models already had a kind of "fast" thinking, producing an answer immediately, and that we could use RL to teach them "slow" thinking: deliberate, multi-token reasoning...
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@pvncherI see takes like oh, I don’t like Astra because when I say X I want it to do Y You can ask Astra to put a line in your agents.md file and it will just do what you want it to. People don’t understand how personalizable this model is
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@bindureddyAmazing! Fable 5.2 launches shortly Followed by Gemini 4.0 and hopefully Bel from OpenAI The party doesn’t stop 💃
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@emollickIt is less than a decade since the development of the transformer. Less than four years since the release of GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT). Less than two years since the release of o1-preview (the first Reasoner).
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@iscienceluvrOne of my favorite features of Codex/ChatGPT is not even documented in the main docs, I discovered it on Reddit. So basically we have a GPU slurm cluster that we SSH into, and I wanted to be able to run Codex on it from my phone. ChatGPT Desktop supports...
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@xenovacomSimulating a fruit fly's neural network using custom WebGPU kernels, running locally in a browser. The demo uses real connectivity data for 166,700 neurons from the MaleCNS connectome. Paint neurons and watch their activity drive the fly's movements. Built...
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@therohanvarmaIn asked GPT-6 Astra in Codex to build RuneScape and deploy it to a ChatGPT Site. You can check out the game here (it is multiplayer, so I'll see you in there!): The most impressive part may be that the demo video below is an Astra one-shot. My prompt: "I...
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@ivanfioravantiReady! Is there a brave Apple Silicon user with a 64GB machine willing to test DwarfStar with Qwen 3.8 Flash Next? In the video it runs at 65 t/s on M3 Ultra. 🚀 I uploaded Q2 weights here: PR branch is here:
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@yanndubsWe made a big push on decreasing hallucination & making Astra much more trustworthy! (Nit: to interpret those benchmarks you really need to control for the amount of claims the model make, which neither of those plots show.)
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@kennethcasselTold Codex to design me a welded chair made of tubes and sheet metal from RMFG it designed this step file, annotated all the welds, checked the DFM rules throughout the process, uploaded the design and got a quote, all from the CLI. sent me a link to view...
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@gdbWe're now moving into the AGI era (whether you view it as this model, the last one, or the next one), and could not do it without close partners
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@thsottiauxWe’ve made some improvements that improve usage on the long tail for power users of Astra when logged in with your ChatGPT account. No change in quality and a pure win that on the long tail can result in up to 3-4X less usage being drawn from the subscription.
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@lateinteractionI have to say I would have been reasonably impressed by GPT-6 Astra if it was released as "GPT-6 Sol", with pricing/size calibrated accordingly but I'm struggling to imagine how GPT-6 Sol could be noticeably weaker than this AND still be better than...
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@__tinygrad__Run `python3 -m tinygrad.llm --model qwen3.8:27b --serve --max_context 65536` on your 7900XTX and visit localhost:8000. Added markdown parser, also OpenAI API compatible with pi and opencode.
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@jensenhuangGPT-6 Astra, trained on ~100K+ NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72. From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years. AGI has arrived. Congratulations @OpenAI team. 400K GPUs coming online next.
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@thsottiauxTo calibrate you all on which reasoning effort to use for Astra, know that GPT-6 Astra on low performs better than GPT-5.6 Sol on high. If you were using high reasoning efforts with Sol and were happy, I suggest you move down to low or medium for Astra.
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@prathkumEvery single launch follows the same pattern: when Anthropic ships a new model, it beats all of...
I have a genuine question. Anthropic has probably been working on Fable 5.1 for a very long time. OpenAI has probably been working on GPT-6 Astra for just as long. These labs are almost certainly building in parallel, not reacting to each other in real...
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@reach_vbAstra/ LLM tip: prompt “make sure each word in this text justifies its existence.” works like a charm, s/o to @charlierguo for introducing me to it
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@alexandr_wangNice comparison of muse spark 1.3 max and GPT-6 astra
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@alexandr_wangMuse Spark 1.3 Max by Vals AI, competitive with Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol while 4-8x cheaper
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@lydiahallieI've been running `/claude-api prompt-audit` when upgrading projects to Fable 5.1 and it's helped so much It goes through your setup (Claude.md, skills, etc.), flags instructions the new model doesn't need anymore and proposes a diff. Also works if you...
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ValsAIRT @ValsAI: Meta Muse Spark 1.3 (Max) matches the performance of Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol on the Vals Index, at 4x - 8x cheaper. https://t.c…
Dev tool Hermes Agent
Teknium reported token efficiency improvements in Hermes over the prior two weeks and invited users to test Codex subscriptions in Hermes Agent.
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Pricing DeepSeek
Ollama says DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Pro token rates will be half price outside 12:00–18:00 UTC on weekdays and all day on weekends; broader model coverage is planned but not yet available.
observed Recurring off-peak schedule: outside 12:00–18:00 UTC on weekdays and all day on weekends
Quota reset GLM Coding Plan
@louszbd: We increased GLM-5.3-Flash usage for all coding plan users to unlock more workloads in ZCode, with unlimited usage from 8 AM to 6 PM PT. And we heard your feedback about usage limits in coding agents like Hermes and OpenClaw, so we doubled
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Dev tool Claude Code
The post reports that switching effort settings on Fable 5.1 no longer breaks prompt caching in Claude Code, while quoting a separate personal comparison of model effort levels.
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Dev tool Claude Code
The post claims switching effort settings for Fable 5.1 no longer breaks prompt cache, while quoting a separate capability comparison. No implementation or official changelog is supplied.
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Quota reset ChatGPT
@thsottiaux: Because we are beyond happy to have Astra rolled out today ahead of schedule: we will do the full banked reset today too for all Plus, Pro and Business users. Lands end of day. Happy Astra day. PS: If you create the account or upgrade before 8pm PT you will get it
observed applies today
Rapid expansion in artificial intelligence compute is driving gigawatt-scale data center developments, power infrastructure adaptations, and domestic processor procurement, alongside regional regulatory pauses on facility construction approvals.
Robotics and embodied AI +5.0Hardware and robotics companies are introducing diverse embodied systems, spanning wheeled humanoid robots for commercial logistics, elder companion devices for domestic support, and autonomous drone fleets for wildfire suppression.
Frontier model releases -18.8Frontier model releases are rolling out across subscription tiers and expanding into specialized applications, including direct software integration and domain-specific cybersecurity evaluations.
AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Advanced Micro Devices +4.69%, Super Micro Computer +4.54%, Palantir Technologies. -4.49% leading the tracked basket.
| Ticker | Company | Move |
|---|---|---|
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | +4.69% |
| SMCI | Super Micro Computer | +4.54% |
| PLTR | Palantir Technologies. | -4.49% |
| ARM | Arm Holdings plc | +3.92% |