DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Quietly Ships a 5x Agentic Coding Leap
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 goes GA with massive agentic coding gains, open weights under MIT, and a 264% price hike taking effect August 16
AImodels, tools, papers
METR Raises $71M to Independently Stress-Test the World's Most Powerful AI
METR raises $71M in six months to scale independent AI safety evaluations as rogue deployment risks grow more real
Zed Launches Delta, a Standalone App Built for AI Agents Writing Your Code
Zed v1.15 ships smarter Git diffs and JSX improvements while Delta, a new multiplayer agent coding environment, enters private beta
Nous Research's Hermes Agent Ships a Loop Command That Watches CI for You
Hermes Agent's new /loop command lets you re-run any prompt on a recurring schedule, with smart self-pacing built in
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about "the Hugging Face Incident" ( previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It's short and information dense and well worth…
One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5
Back in 2022 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5 (running in Claude Code for…
New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side provider tools, redesigned…
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant change to the MCP spec since it first…
Tech & dealsthe wider industry, mergers, money
Source and letter: the US plans to tell 35 partner countries they'll be excluded from the US-led Pax Silica initiative if they also join China's rival framework (Michael Martina/Reuters)
The U.S. is preparing to tell dozens of countries they must pick sides in the artificial intelligence race with China …
How dual-valuation deals became pervasive in the current frenzied AI funding cycle, with prestige VC firms monetizing their brand names by getting better prices (M. Sriram/Newcomer)
Prestige firms are monetizing their brand names by getting better prices than others in the same funding round
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US is "not in favor" of Apple buying Chinese memory chips, and there have to be "other solutions to the memory issue" (Wall Street Journal)
” — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urges iPhone maker to find other solutions to AI-driven chip supply crunch
Sources: Anthropic projects 2028 revenue of ~$190B-$200B, vs. a revenue run rate of $47B in May, as bankers and investors price the company ahead of an IPO (Echo Wang/Reuters)
As Anthropic prepares for what could be one of the biggest IPOs on record, Wall Street is looking further into the future …
Waymo receives approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand across 18 counties, including Sacramento and San Diego (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
Waymo says California regulators have signed off on the biggest expansion of its robotaxi service yet, covering 18 counties from Sonoma down to San Diego.
Sources: Nvidia has reworked a deal to finance an OpenAI Ohio data center campus so that it would initially guarantee only half of its planned $250B backstop (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
Under new proposed terms, the chip maker would initially backstop only half of the 10-gigawatt project
SpaceX closes its $60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup (Bloomberg)
SpaceX has completed a $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence coding startup Cursor, a key part of Elon Musk's bid to gain ground on rivals Anthropic PBC and OpenAI.
Magyarországtelex
Azbeszt-mentesítési Alapot hoz létre a kormány
Azonnali hatállyal csoportosítanak át hárommilliárd forintot.
Erdoğan legfontosabb kihívója új politikai párthoz csatlakozik
Ekrem İmamoğlu isztambuli főpolgármester kilép abból a Köztársasági Néppártból, amelynek tavaly elnökjelöltjévé választották.
A FIFA elnöke kirobbantotta a futball-polgárháborút, és lehet, hogy bele is fog bukni
A rekordbevételt hozó vb után Gianni Infantino a botrányok ellenére is készülhetett a harmadik elnöki ciklusára a nemzetközi szövetség élén. Aztán kiderült, hogy befektetőknek árusítaná ki a futballt, és ebből akkora felháborodás…
A Magyar Színházi Társaság elfogadhatatlannak tartja Vidnyánszky valótlan állításait, gyalázkodó hangnemét
A Nemzeti Színház igazgatója többekbe is beleszállt egy ATV-s interjúban, erre reagált most az egyik szakmai szervezet.
A statisztikák kezdete óta nem termett olyan kevés alma Magyarországon, mint amennyi idénre várható
A tavalyi szüret volt az addigi legrosszabb, az idei még 20 százalékkal rosszabbra sikerülhet.
Belga melósok szennyvízcsöveket fektettek le, amikor hárommilliárd forintnyi aranyleletre bukkantak
Egy házfelújításnál kerültek elő az aranyrudak és -érmék, ha öt évig senki nem jelentkezik értük, a munkások is kaphatnak belőle.
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Kontroverzní lovci predátorov. Polícia s nimi neoficiálne spolupracuje, odborníci varujú pred rizikami
Vytvoria si na sociálnych sieťach profil, kde sa vydávajú povedzme za 13-ročné dievča, a čakajú, kým im sadne na lep sexuálny predátor. Zaznamenávajú si spoločnú konverzáciu a sexuálne návrhy, ktoré od neho dostávajú. A potom ho…
Newsfilter: Matúš Šutaj Eštok je bezpečnostné riziko
1. Kazisvet Žilinka. 2. Pozor, skrytá kamera!
Tarabovi tlieskali odporcovia veterných parkov a potom Danko zaútočil, že minister klame verejnosť
Predseda SNS najnovšie kritizuje Tarabu za jeho postoj k takzvaným akceleračným zónam pre veterné parky. Taraba by škrtol sedem z ôsmich území, ktoré pre parky vytipovali do budúcna ako najvhodnejšie. Danko tvrdí, že nechce ani…
Vražda so svastikou, útok na migrantov i hajlovanie. Bulharsko šokovali prípady neonacistického násilia aj ruské vzory
Bulharsko rieši neonacistické siete a radikalizáciu mladých.
Debutovým albumom zmenili svet, teraz The Strokes spievajú o tom, ako sa zmenili oni
Auto-Tune vznikol v roku 1997 ako štúdiová pomôcka na doladenie speváckeho hlasu, dnes je v popmusic bežnou súčasťou hudobnej produkcie. Kým v minulosti sa využíval pomerne skryto, teraz si na jeho efekte zakladajú aj tie…