Vol. I · No. 121TUE, AUG 18, 2026
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Anthropic, Microsoft in talks for AI chip deal after $5 billion investment

The Information reported Anthropic is exploring use of Microsoft's second-generation Maia AI server chips as a way to expand compute capacity for Claude beyond its existing AWS and Google Cloud footprint. The talks are early and may not lead to a deal; Maia 200 was announced in January but has yet to ship on Azure. A deal would mark a notable diversification away from Nvidia in the AI infrastructure race.

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2024 vs 2026

Reddit discussion comparing OpenAI's capabilities or trajectory between 2024 and 2026; lacks substantive content or credible source.

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FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service

FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service Back in 2024 Cox Media Group were caught trying to sell advertisers packages based on "active listening", with this deck which claimed: Smart devices capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations Advertisers can pair this voice-data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers I wrote about this in September 2024 . My theory: I think active listening is the term that the team came up with for “something...

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Novel Problems in VLA [R]

Reddit discussion: researcher seeking novel VLA directions after discovering concurrent work on equivariant approaches.

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Latest b9274 Addresses MTP VRAM leak

llama.cpp b9274 fixes VRAM leak in speculative decoding by properly freeing draft context and decoder resources on server sleep.

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Handoffs are becoming a first-class pattern in Claude workflows. Here is how I have been thinking about them.

Long Claude sessions still break on context decay. Handoffs are the simple fix: compress what matters, start a fresh agent, keep going. Matt Pocock's new `handoff` skill ([repo](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/productivity/handoff/SKILL.md)) does this in one command. It compacts the conversation into a document, points at existing artifacts instead of restating them, and the next agent picks up from it. It also chains between threads: `/grill-with-docs -> /handoff -> /prototype -> /handoff back`. I built handoffs into [APM](https://github.com/sdi2200262/agenti...

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OpenAI And Anthropic Are Testing Two Very Different AI Business Models

As it stands now, OpenAI's business model does not close. Will they be able to turn things around before the IPO? Will the market tolerate deep losses? Anthropic seems to be showing the way forward, dominating the enterprise market and with a more prudent capacity strategy. I posted the same article (but with a different body text) in the OpenAI community, and the views seem to be more optimistic there. What do you think?

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Roundtables: Can AI Learn to Understand the World?

Listen to the session or watch below AI companies want to build systems that understand the external world and overcome the limitations of LLMs. Recent developments have brought world models to the forefront of the AI discussion. Watch a conversation with editor in chief Mat Honan, senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven, and AI reporter…

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In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs

University graduates are booing and heckling corporate executives who praise AI during their commencement ceremonies, and the only people who seem to be genuinely surprised by this are the executives themselves. In a procession of viral videos, 2026 commencement speakers like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt face loud and sustained jeers from students after praising AI and describing the technology as both inevitable and mandatory. The videos have clearly struck a chord among young people entering a bleak job market in an increasingly unstable world. "They deserve everything they're getting," P...

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Yes GPT Image 2.0 can do this

You can actually make full manhwa story now. Characters stay same across panels, faces and feelings look right, and background also keep good. So far I make more than 20 pages, but I cannot upload all here, so I publish it in [https://www.vixal.art/en/explore/the-last-demon-king-s-son](https://www.vixal.art/en/explore/the-last-demon-king-s-son) I will keep working and try to finish

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Datasette Agent

Simon Willison releases Datasette Agent, a conversational AI assistant for querying structured data with chart generation capabilities.

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