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Vercel is offering up to $50,000 per bug and a total $1,000,000 reward pool in a public HackerOne challenge running Aug 18 through Sept 1, 2026, to break out of Vercel Sandbox, its Firecracker microVM-based isolation run…
OpenAI Codex Product Lead Rohan Varma said that for AI agents to function as effective coworkers, they need durable memory outside their context window, shared state, and scoped access tied to an identity. Varma, who pre…
MotherDuck has acquired Tower Computing Inc., a provider of runtime infrastructure for data engineering tasks, to enhance its Flights feature and enable AI agents to build data pipelines and APIs. The acquisition will al…
Fastly Inc. introduced Fastly API Security, a two-part product combining API Discovery and API Enforcement to help organizations inventory and validate API traffic at the edge, blocking non-conforming requests before the…
Vercel's AI Gateway now supports asynchronous video generation, allowing applications to receive webhooks, poll for completion, or start a generation and retrieve results later, avoiding request timeouts. The update intr…
Vercel's AI Gateway is offering MiniMax M3 and M2.7 models free through GMI Cloud until Sunday, September 6, using the -free model IDs (minimax/minimax-m3-free or minimax/minimax-m2.7-free). After the free period, these …
Suprema Gaming, one of Latin America's largest gaming companies, migrated its analytics platform from Snowflake to ClickHouse Cloud, cutting warehouse costs by 62%, reducing query latency from minutes to milliseconds, an…
AMD and Robotec.ai demonstrated a fully local physical AI agent for robot control by combining the RAI framework, O3DE simulation, ROS 2 Jazzy, and the Lemonade SDK, enabling a robotic arm to pick, place, and sort object…
Stripe is building a full stack for agent-to-agent commerce, including a machine payment protocol, agent wallets, usage metering, and stablecoin rails, so AI agents can transact directly without human intervention. The c…
DeepSeek V4 Flash, a mixture-of-experts model, ran at roughly 10 to 11 tokens per second on a single RTX 3090 with 192GB of system RAM in tests by FreeToken's desktop app, while a dense Qwen 3.8 27B model failed to load.…
FreeToken, a local inference tool, enables running mixture-of-experts models with over 290 billion parameters on a single consumer GPU by streaming only active experts from system RAM, avoiding the need for multi-GPU set…
Escha Labs Inc. released Escha-W2, a 2-bit quantized build of Qwen3.8-27B that compresses the 27-billion-parameter model to 10.15GB, enabling 128k context on a single 24GB GPU while matching FP8 quality on benchmarks. Th…
Escha Labs released Qwen3.8-27B-Escha-W2, a 2-bit quantized build of Qwen3.8-27B that fits 10.15 GB of weights on a 24 GB consumer GPU, enabling 64k context out of the box and up to 128k with tuning via SGLang. The model…
Stripe Inc. agreed to pay $7.5 billion to acquire OpenRouter, a platform that routes API requests across more than 400 AI models from over 80 providers, a price roughly 5.7 times OpenRouter's $1.3 billion valuation from …
Arun, the developer of the Nowledge Mem Google Antigravity plugin, has released the plugin as open source under the nowledge-co/nowledge-mem-google-antigravity repository, integrating Nowledge Mem's persistent personal k…
As of August 25, 2026, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, and Mistral all publish a 10% surcharge (1.1× multiplier) for data residency on AI inference, while AWS Bedrock shows no residency line item for Anthropic's …
A census of eight API vendors and four coding-CLI surfaces found that the dominant documented behavior when hitting an AI spend cap is a hard stop via HTTP 429, 402, or 400, not a graceful degrade, according to vendor do…
Anthropic and OpenAI price cache reads at 0.1x the base input rate, and Anthropic states caching pays off after one read (5-minute tier) or two (1-hour tier), but a multi-hour agent run can keep spending money after prod…
Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio, announced August 25, 2026, offers up to 512GB of unified memory at 1.2TB/s, enough to hold trillion-parameter-class open-weight models like DeepSeek-V4-Pro (1.6T params, ~155GB quantized) and…
Lambda, the GPU cloud computing company, is in talks to raise up to $3 billion in new funding as it prepares for a potential IPO in the second half of 2026. The company has raised approximately $2.36 billion in total equ…