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OPENAI'S NEW DEVICE WILL BE HOCKEY PUCK-SIZED AND COST OVER $300 (7
MINUTE READ) [5]

OpenAI's upcoming hardware device will be essentially a displayless
smart speaker with moving parts to help give it a personality. The
product is slated for release in 2027 for a cost of more than $300.
OpenAI is positioning the device as an AI-first computer that can help
users get things done. Its design will apparently set it apart from
other current smart speakers.

TESLA, SPACEX CONFIRM `TERAFAB' CHIP FAB SITE -- $16.8B FIRST
PHASE (4 MINUTE READ) [6]

Tesla and SpaceX will build their Terafab megafactory in Grimes
County, Texas. Terafab will combine logic, memory, packaging, and
testing under one roof. The initial phase will cost roughly $16.8
billion, with the finished site spanning more than 100 million square
feet. SpaceX is aiming to produce over a terawatt of compute per year
at the site.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

THIS AI JUST CREATED VIRUSES NOT FOUND IN NATURE (8 MINUTE READ) [7]

Researchers have used AI to create new kinds of viruses for the first
time. They taught AI to recognize patterns of DNA structure in nature
and then use that data to write recipes for entirely new viruses. The researchers followed those recipes to create DNA molecules, which they
inserted into bacteria. The viruses were able to infect other
bacteria, demonstrating that they were viable.

NUCLEAR STARTUP OKLO SPLITS ITS FIRST ATOMS IN TEST REACTOR (3 MINUTE
READ) [8]

Oklo's Groves Isotope Test Reactor has sustained a chain reaction.
The reactor is a demonstration version of the technology Oklo plans to
use for its new medical isotope business. The company also plans to
expand into recycling nuclear waste, fabricating its own fuel, and
producing medical isotopes. Oklo is preparing a site near the Idaho
National Laboratory for its first small modular reactor but does not
yet have permission to work on the reactor itself.

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Kitesurf is a new browser that runs entirely on top of Cloudflare
Workers that was built specifically for agents. It is great for AI
agents that need to render pages but can accept the trade-offs of not
using a full-featured, pixel-perfect Chromium browser. Kitesurf scales
well for bursty, AI-driven workloads. It is available for free on
Browser Run while in beta.

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Agent Plugins is a portable package format for reusable components
that extend AI agents. Its version 1.0.0 specification defines a
shared format for Agent Skills and MCP servers that compatible clients
can discover and load consistently. Agent Plugins defines a small interoperability floor for the parts that can be portable across
clients. Shared components can use one predictable structure, while distribution, installation, permissions, user experience, and
client-specific capabilities remain under each client's control.

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MISCELLANEOUS

AMD ACQUIRES AI CHIP STARTUP TAALAS TO BOOST INFERENCE PERFORMANCE BY
ETCHING MODELS INTO SILICON (6 MINUTE READ) [12]

AMD has acquired AI chip company Taalas for an undisclosed sum. The
deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter, subject to regulatory approval. Taalas bakes model weights directly into silicon to boost
inference performance by an order of magnitude or more. The company's
first chip, the HC1, can serve Meta's Llama3.1 8B at a blistering
16,860 tokens a second, 48x faster than Nvidia's GPUs when it was
announced last February.

GITHUB ACTIONS IS HAVING ONE OF THE WORST DAYS IN ITS HISTORY (5
MINUTE READ) [13]

GitHub Actions went into a major outage yesterday. Webhook triggers
were throttled, so pushes and pull requests quietly don't start
anything at all. Runners were being handed jobs that no longer
existed. Both hosted and self-hosted were affected. GitHub's record
outages show that the platform is growing faster than it can handle.

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REVERSE JEVONS PARADOX (2 MINUTE READ) [16]

If the cost of a resource increases, the total spend on that resource
can decrease.

IF YOU'RE NOT PAYING FOR THE TOKENS... (10 MINUTE READ) [17]

Meta is using a new pay structure that provides insanely cheap tokens
in exchange for users giving their inputs to help train its models.

BUILDING AN OPEN AGENTIC INTERNET: READABLE, DISCOVERABLE, CALLABLE,
AND PAYABLE (9 MINUTE READ) [18]

The Agent Internet will need its own tools and protocols.

WHY OPEN-SOURCE MODELS HAVEN'T KILLED THE BIG DOGS (23 MINUTE READ)
[19]

Once the model quality is close enough, the inference stack has been
handled, and the price is substantially lower, the closed labs will be competing against a complete product rather than a research project.

CHATGPT BRINGS UNLIMITED TEXT CHATS TO FREE USERS (1 MINUTE READ)
[20]

There will still be separate limits for files, images, voice, and
image generation.

CHANNELS SDK (GITHUB REPO) [21]

Channels connects an AG-UI-compatible agent to the communication
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