Vol. I · No. 112SUN, AUG 9, 2026
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NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 13.1: Zero-Copy Transcode, AV1 B-Frames, and Frame-Accurate Seek

The demand for high-quality video continues to accelerate across industries, powering everything from immersive streaming experiences to remote collaboration,... The demand for high-quality video continues to accelerate across industries, powering everything from immersive streaming experiences to remote collaboration, generative AI media tools, and large-scale content delivery. Behind these experiences is a growing need for video pipelines that are faster, more efficient, and capable of handling increasingly complex formats and workloads. Source

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Building abundant intelligence

OpenAI outlines full-stack strategy to improve AI capability, cost, and accessibility across models and infrastructure.

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datasette-agent 0.4a0

datasette-agent 0.4a0 adds browser task execution, letting agent plugins run JavaScript directly in user browsers.

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It’s time to panic about AI safety

When the phrase "OpenAI hacked Hugging Face" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI's agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a bunch of other supposedly secure web services, all in the name of cheating on a benchmark tests. The fact that this hack happened is a problem. So is the fact that it took a while for anyone to notice. And the fact that it seems no one is willing or able to do much to stop it. (And lest you think it's just an OpenAI problem, since we recorded t...

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AI labs want to pump the brakes, but Amazon and SpaceX are still blasting off

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have […]

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