a quarter of next year’s business

a quarter of next year’s business

Aug 27, 2026

Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips, and has lined up commitments for more than $500 billion Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, told analysts on August 26 that demand from the labs Nvidia backs with its

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Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecture

Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecture

Aug 26, 2026

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model built for cost per token. The checkpoint pairs a 125B backbone with a 51B N-gram embedding table and a 4B multi-token prediction module. Only 6B parameters activate per token. The team positions

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Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data | MIT News

Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data | MIT News

Aug 25, 2026

Can a city’s seawall stand up to a blockbuster storm? Will a region’s power grid hold against record-breaking heat? And can a town’s fire-fighting resources contain a major wildfire?  To answer these questions, communities will first need to know how such extreme events

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Anthropic’s new Claude Tag update lets its Slack agent read the full conversation — and jump in unprompted

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag update lets its Slack agent read the full conversation — and jump in unprompted

Aug 24, 2026

Anthropic is making a calculated bet that the biggest bottleneck in enterprise AI isn't model intelligence — it's the fact that most people still use AI alone. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Scott White, Anthropic's head of product for enterprise, laid out

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How AI coding tools are contributing to the popularity of JavaScript

How AI coding tools are contributing to the popularity of JavaScript

Aug 23, 2026

In August 2025, TypeScript became the most used language on GitHub. This was the largest shift in GitHub’s language rankings in the last ten years and it occurred during the period of most accelerated adoption of coding AI agents. Coding AI agents had

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Decoding AI’s Open-Source Course Maps Three Ways to Run an Agent Loop and the Provider Economics Behind Each

Decoding AI’s Open-Source Course Maps Three Ways to Run an Agent Loop and the Provider Economics Behind Each

Aug 22, 2026

Most teams treat ‘which model’ as the important decision. The harness engineering literature keeps pointing somewhere else. In LangChain’s Terminal-Bench experiment, changing only the harness—same model throughout—moved a coding agent from roughly 30th place into the top 5. That result reframes the question.

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Paving the way for greener ammonia production | MIT News

Paving the way for greener ammonia production | MIT News

Aug 21, 2026

Ammonia is one of the most important chemicals produced in the world, ranking second only to sulfuric acid in the total volume produced each year. It is used mostly to make fertilizer, which is essential to feeding the world’s population. Yet its production

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Serval’s super agent Catalyst creates roving background agents to identify and fix IT issues before they’re ticketed

Serval’s super agent Catalyst creates roving background agents to identify and fix IT issues before they’re ticketed

Aug 20, 2026

Serval is making Catalyst, its AI agent for building enterprise automations, generally available Thursday and enabling it by default for customers — allowing teams of AI agents to decide what should be automated and then build the automation itself. Catalyst sits above Serval’s

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OpenAI president urges enterprises to hasten AI security defences

OpenAI president urges enterprises to hasten AI security defences

Aug 19, 2026

OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman warns that enterprise security teams face a compressed timeline to adopt AI defences. Brockman has published an account of what the company calls the “OpenAI-Hugging Face” incident, using it to argue that organisations need to uplevel their

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