OpenAI News
Apple is getting this wrong
OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.
Monday, 3 August 2026
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
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Avoiding having to calculate the gcd when doing cycle decomposition -- Raymond Chen
Last time, we looked at how clang’s libcxx implementation of std::rotate uses cycle decomposition to minimize the number of swaps. Doing so requires calculating the greatest common divisor, but I noted that the OpenJDK implementation of the java standard library uses a trick to avoid doing the gcd…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
New Site From Suffolk Law Dean Andrew Perlman Catalogs AI Policies at 128 Law Schools
When law school AI policies have made news, it has usually been because they were controversial. UC Berkeley School of Law’s restrictive policy, which I wrote about in May, drew national attention for barring generative AI from nearly every stage of producing graded work. But a new website launched…
Podcasts: Practical AI / TWIML / No Priors / Dwarkesh
Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
This is a video recording of a post I wrote last week. If you want to read the original you can check it out here. Thanks to Mercury for sponsoring this video. Mercury’s built-in AI, Command, helps me close my books and saves me a bunch of time. At the end of each month, Command categorizes my…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Vercel WAF for Blob is now generally available
during the beta Vercel WAF for Blob is now generally available and supported for production use on all plans. If you protected a store, nothing has changed: your rules and setup carry over exactly as they are. Vercel WAF custom rules @vercel/blob protects a Blob store with, the same kind you use to…
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon: Why America needs the CLARITY Act
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon on the fight over crypto market structure, why regulatory clarity matters, and what is at stake for America’s technological leadership.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Weekly Roundup: Price reduction of GPT models in Bedrock, CloudWatch managed collectors for Prometheus metrics, and more (August 3, 2026)
Last week I had the joy of participating in Amazon’s “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” with my 7 year old son. We commuted together into the New York City office, his first real rush hour train ride, and spent the day exploring how Amazon uses AI, machine learning, and robotics to deliver packages to…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
As AI Legal Research Tools Race to Give Answers, This New Product Gives Only Cases — And That’s the Point
At a time when virtually every major AI legal research product is moving toward delivering a single, synthesized answer to your research question, a new product launching today is based on the premise that many litigators want something that sounds almost old school – just the cases. Align…
The Robot Report / IEEE Spectrum Robotics
Walden Robotics Partners With Toyota on Practical Humanoids
For a while there, it seemed as though robotics as a whole was stuck in a mad rush towards building humanoid robots mostly because it was very possible (and very lucrative) to do so, even without near-term goals that were necessarily realistic. Some of the magic of those first couple of years of…
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
NVIDIA Vera Storage Benchmarks: Faster Encryption, Compression, Integrity Checking, and Recovery for AI-Native Storage
Storage is an active part of every agentic AI workflow. As agents retrieve enterprise knowledge, access persistent memory, reuse key-value (KV) cache data,...
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
How to Run Isolated Tenant Kubernetes Clusters on Shared GPU Infrastructure
Running a dedicated Kubernetes cluster per team often results in more isolation than an organization requires. While one cluster can be successfully shared...
Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
Gateway API v1.6: TCPRoute and UDPRoute Graduate to Standard
The Kubernetes SIG Network community is thrilled to share the release of Gateway API v1.6.0, which was released on June 30th of this year! Gateway API has become the standard for modern, role-oriented, and expressive service networking in Kubernetes. In previous releases, Gateway API established a…
Microsoft — Official / Windows / Azure Updates / Research
Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI
Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by enabling researchers to reuse the same infrastructure. The post Orchard: An open framework for scalable…
Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)
Introducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption Dashboard
Scaling our curation and measurement of the open ecosystem.
Wiz Research
Introducing the Wiz Sensor for Developer Workstations to Protect Endpoints in the AI Era
As AI expands who builds software, the developer workstation is becoming a new security perimeter. AI and third-party software increasingly operate with access to your most sensitive credentials and cloud environments.
Huntress
Why App Control Fails Most Teams and How Managed ESPM Fixes It
App control works, but most solutions are built for enterprise budgets and headcount. See how Huntress Managed ESPM makes proactive endpoint hardening accessible for MSPs and small IT teams.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
ClickHouse launches ClickHouse Labs with Andy Pavlo as VP of Database Research
Renowned database researcher will lead a new group dedicated to advancing foundational database technology and sharing its work openly with the broader community.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs
I am excited to announce that I am joining ClickHouse, Inc. to establish and lead a new research team at ClickHouse Labs.
Import AI (Jack Clark)
Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity
When do we build the moon arcology?
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
Spend More Time Talking to Humans
LLMs have reshaped the day-to-day work of software engineering, leaving senior engineers exhausted by context-switching and junior engineers unsure how to grow. The fix isn’t a better prompt — it’s spending more time talking to humans: reducing context churn, pairing across seniority levels, and…
SRE Weekly / Data Engineering Weekly / Console.dev / Changelog
Data Engineering Weekly #281
The Weekly Data Engineering Newsletter
PlayStation Blog / Xbox Wire / Unity / Godot / Meta Quest
Release candidate: Godot 4.7.2 RC 1
A month and a half has passed since our initial release of Godot 4.7, which was then followed up with the Godot 4.7.1 maintenance release nearly three weeks ago. While we stand by the stable foundation of our maintenance releases, that doesn’t mean we’re ready to stop giving support to our most…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Neon now has per-project permissions
Neon now supports a new permission structure, with four org-level roles (Admin, Editor, Viewer, and Collaborator) and per-project permissions that let you control exactly which projects your agents and collaborators can access.
Actively exploitedCritical 85CISA advisories & alerts
CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-18577 N-able N-central Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for…
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Lemons to bitter lemonade: from the Samos E-5 to the LANYARD reconnaissance satellite (part 1)
When the NRO decided to cancel a classified satellite reconnaissance program in the early 1960s, engineers with the company that designed its camera sought to salvage that work. Dwayne Day examines how that led to an alternative satellite program called LANYARD.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The roads to the Moon
NASA has announced plans for a lunar base starting with its current Artemis architecture. Ernesto Gabriel Arias discusses an alternative approach better suited for lunar permanence.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Price it like a Tomahawk, not a Falcon 9: the case for sovereign microlaunch as deterrence
Very small launch vehicles are at an economic disadvantage to larger vehicles. However, Evangelos Dimitriou describes how they could provide a strategic capability for some spacefaring nations.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Government funding before VC: the inverted capital stack for space startups
Many space startups seek, and often struggle to raise, venture capital to scale their businesses. Samson Williams argues companies are better off first working with the government to develop technologies and secure funding before going to VCs.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Review: Little Blue Dot
Navigation and timing services provided by satellites have become ubiquitous in modern society. Jeff Foust reviews a book that explores the development of GPS and some of the challenges it now faces.
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Leopold’s Fall
Situational Awareness and Amaranth 20 Years Apart
Last Week in AI
LWiAI Podcast #253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack
Anthropic releases Opus 5 promising Fable 5-like capabilities, Google Releases Three New Gemini A.I. Models, and more!
tl;dr sec / Risky Biz News / Unsupervised Learning
The AI-Native Company
Human architects reconstructing a company into a transparent AI-native operating system/images/the-ai-native-company.webp/images/the-ai-native-company.webp Heading into Black Hat / DEF CON this week I think the biggest idea in tech right now isn’t the attacker vs. defender question as models get…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
I created a playground for 110 database systems
You can choose any of these hundred database systems and run queries. You can create tables and databases, insert data, drop tables, etc. Every database comes with a preloaded dataset of 100 million records, so you can test example queries. It has not onl
OpenAI News
How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months
GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.
NASA / ESA / JAXA
[release] Launch Postponement of MICHIBIKI No. 7, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-7) aboard H3 Launch Vehicle flight No.9
The launch of MICHIBIKI No. 7, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-7) aboard H3 Launch Vehicle fligh
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)
Scientists twist crystal layers and reshape matter from within
Researchers have found a way to build much larger “twisted” oxide materials while precisely controlling how their atomic layers line up. Because these materials can be made over large areas and transferred onto different surfaces, the technique could help turn twistronics from a laboratory…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
How Factory scaled its cloud backend to one billion monthly requests on Vercel
Factory on Vercel Non-technical teams were bottlenecked on engineering Droids hit Vercel's APIs to build and deploy autonomously Going self-serve exposed Factory's backend to a new category of threat Observability and WAF handle protection at the network level One billion backend API requests…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Share Vercel Container Registry repositories across teams
Vercel Container Registry now lets you share a repository with other Vercel teams to grant read access to its images. Sharing is read-only and covers the whole repository. Recipients can pull and use every image, but cannot push, delete, or re-share. You can also share a repository with your own…
OpenAI News
Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology
Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22%, reducing churn by 9%, and improving development efficiency.
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central
I Used AI to Build AI-Resistant Assignments
A teacher created an app to fight cheating — and discovered a bigger takeaway.
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central
High Schools Need a New Model for a New Economy
Career-connected learning, not just college readiness, will prepare students for jobs that keep shifting.