MediaTek commits $5B: the Taiwanese fabless giant enters the AI capex league
The board approves a significant AI-focused budget—first custom AI chip expected in Q4 2026, a second in 2028.
yesterday 12 13
Weekly quota resets: the coding-agent budget cliff that nobody signed up for
For a few weeks now, code agent users have seen their weekly quotas reset "randomly". This is not a bug - it's the first sign that token rationing has become a real product lever.
Jul 19, 2026 at 00:39 10 10
Anthropic provides its user manual for scaling agents: layers, tokens, reliable execution
Two engineers from Anthropic publish field lessons: for an agent that needs to scale, it's no longer the model that limits, but the harness. Three pillars: layers, budget, execution.
Jul 15, 2026 at 12:34 30 5
The burn rate of an engineer could soon equal their salary
Adam Mosseri announces token quotas per engineer within one to two years. Behind the joke, a real professional question: the marginal cost of code has just stopped being zero.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:30 16 7
Flash-MSA: Train on a million tokens without breaking the compute bank
A sparse attention kernel that makes long-context training finally affordable - if the benchmarks hold up outside the lab.
Jul 13, 2026 at 02:20 3 11