Gemini’s cheap Flash grows an agent brain
Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash, a cheaper and far more token-efficient Flash tier tuned for agents, while teasing Gemini 4; plus Hyundai…
Issue #260722
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The robots had their biggest week yet
China's WAIC 2026 closed with a wave of production-ready humanoids, from AgiBot's 51-degree-of-freedom A3 Ultra to Unitree's transformable GD01, plus the first…
Issue #260721
The EU pries Android open for rival AI
The EU has ordered Google to give rival AI assistants system-level Android access and share its Search data, cracking open the "Hey…
Issue #260720
The AI boom is eating your RAM
AI data centers are draining the world's DRAM supply, doubling memory prices and starving PCs and phones as HBM crowds general-purpose chips…
Issue #260719
Meta bets a nation’s worth of power on AI
Meta hires an AWS veteran to lead a $125B+ push into its own AI cloud, framing compute and power, not just chips,…
Issue #260718
China ships the world’s largest open model
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open Mixture-of-Experts model with a new linear-attention design and a 1M-token context, the largest…
Issue #260717