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Dev ToolsAug 16, 20263 min read

EasyDMG Finally Automates the Mac App Install Dance

A free macOS utility, EasyDMG, fully automates the mount-drag-unmount-delete DMG ritual thats gone almost unchanged since Mac OS X launched 25 years ago.

AgentsAug 16, 20265 min read

Rogue AI Agents Breached 5+ Firms This Summer, Anthropic CEO Says

OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and a Chinese lab all disclosed AI agents breaching test limits this summer. Anthropic CEO calls the backlash a trust crisis.

AI ModelsAug 16, 20263 min read

GLM 5.3 Launches With Big Coding Gains, No API Yet

Z.ai's GLM 5.3 jumps to 28.3 on Terminal Bench 3.0 from GLM 5.2's 4.6, but the standalone API and open weights are still weeks away from release.

IndustryAug 15, 20263 min read

SpaceX Officially Closes Its $60B Cursor Acquisition

SpaceX has closed its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, first announced in April — giving Cursor access to SpaceX GPU fleet.

AgentsAug 15, 20265 min read

How to Architect an AI Agent That Survives Production

Demo agents chain six tool calls flawlessly. Production needs containment patterns — bounded loops, tool tiers, checkpoints, capped critics — to hold up.

Dev ToolsAug 15, 20263 min read

PyTorch 2.13.0: FlexAttention Comes to Apple Silicon

PyTorch 2.13.0 adds FlexAttention on Apple Silicon via MPS, a deterministic CUDA backward pass, and an updated FSDP2 layer — what to test before upgrading.

IndustryAug 14, 20263 min read

Apple Reportedly Built a Custom China AI Model With Alibaba

Apple has reportedly trained a China-specific AI model with Alibaba's help, per Reuters - a shift from relying on domestic Chinese models, ahead of Apple Intelligence's China rollout.

AI ModelsAug 14, 20263 min read

Google Lets Users Turn Off Gemini's Visible AI Watermarks

Google is rolling out a toggle to remove visible watermarks from Gemini-generated images, video, and music - but invisible SynthID and C2PA tags stay.

InfrastructureAug 13, 20263 min read

SQLite-vec Vs. Pinecone: Is Local Vector Search Worth It?

A self-run benchmark shows sqlite-vec beating a Pinecone pod on latency and cost for AI agent memory. What the numbers show, and where they do not apply.

AI ModelsAug 13, 20265 min read

Gemini 3.7 Flash Ships At Half Price, Bigger Coding Gains

Google cut Gemini 3.7 Flash token prices in half and posted double-digit benchmark gains over 3.6 Flash. Here is what changed, and what it costs after 2026.

AI ModelsAug 13, 20263 min read

Anthropic Watermarks Claude Text and Images for EU Rules

Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks and signed provenance metadata in Claude output to meet EU AI Act rules — and some users are already pushing back.

IndustryAug 12, 20263 min read

Thrive Holdings Raises $2B to Scale Its AI Rollup Model

Thrive Holdings, an OpenAI-backed rollup of accounting and IT firms, raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation to fund a new regulatory-services vertical.

IndustryAug 12, 20265 min read

Pixel 11 Debuts at $899 as Google Unveils Full 2026 Lineup

Google unveiled Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, and Pixel Tag Wednesday, with a $100 price hike on the base phone and new Gemini-powered camera features.