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Nvidia's $6B Poolside deal is a bet…
Nvidia licensed Poolside's Model Factory for $6 billion, invested $1 billion at a $12B valuation, and hired 109 engineers to chase frontier open-weight models that compete with DeepSeek and Kimi K3.
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Notes from the trenches on AI engineering, LLM apps, and the full-stack work that holds it all together.
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Outer Bio keeps human skin alive for…
Lady Gaga co-founder Michael Polansky's startup Outer Bio emerged from stealth with Yuna, a platform that feeds living skin experiments into an AI loop that now proposes a new skincare compound every six weeks.
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Ox Alpha is free on OpenRouter and…
A stealth coding model with a 1M-token window landed on OpenRouter August 20 with zero lab name attached. Community forensics point at Zhipu GLM infrastructure, and that raises real routing questions for production code.
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PrismML squeezed a 27B model into 3.9…
Bonsai 27B compresses Qwen3.6-27B to binary weights at 3.9 GB with Apache 2.0 licensing. That is the first time a 27B-class multimodal agent fits inside a phone memory budget.
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Stop hand-editing agent skills: SkillOpt, GEPA, and…
Microsoft SkillOpt treats SKILL.md files like trainable weights. GEPA and EvoSkill take different paths. Here is when each text-space optimizer fits production agent work.
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Snap Spectacles plus Unitree Go2: open-source AR…
Johannes Tscharn's MIT-licensed stack streams LiDAR into Snap Spectacles, sends nav goals over WebSocket port 8787, and runs manual or voice-agent modes on a MacBook with DimOS.
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Why solo AI agents break when you…
Solo coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor are brilliant for one power user. At team scale, context compaction, siloed memory, and local credentials turn small wins into operational risk.
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Starcloud raised $250M to put Nvidia GPUs…
Starcloud's Series A extension values the orbital data center startup at $2.3B. Nvidia and Cisco joined Manhattan West on a round meant to fund manufacturing, launches, and the Vera Rubin Space-1 chip partnership.