InAgent achieves 90.2% on OSWorld: the computer-use agent gap narrows for the Chinese stack
A Chinese CUA becomes the first to surpass 90% on OSWorld. The gap with US frontier labs is now a harness gap, not a model gap.
8 h ago 5 6
Laguna 118B runs on a DGX Spark, Inkling goes multimodal, K3 secures its commercial license: benchmarks and clauses recap #23
Three architectures to dissect side-by-side: Poolside's MoE 118B / 8B active on a single machine; Inkling's multimodal 975B / 41B, also released as 276B / 12B; and Kimi K3's 2.8T / 104B context with 1M tokens, whose commercial agreement clause could exclude US companies.
21 h ago 10 10
Cloudflare launches its "Agents Week" – the edge positions itself as an agent runtime
A week of announcements dedicated to agents. No product in the opening post, but a clear stance: the CDN aims to become the runtime layer for agents in production.
21 h ago 10 9
August 2, 2026: The AI Act GPAI becomes enforceable – day one of a still under-equipped regime
Since today, transparency in training, disclosure of protected sourcing, and systemic risk management are no longer recommendations but legal obligations for general-purpose AI models. The question remains whether the AI Office, barely established, will be able to translate this mandate into case law—under the explicit threat of an American response.
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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
Situational Awareness drops 67% in a month: the trial of the true believers
A Situational Awareness investment vehicle loses two-thirds of its value in a month during the July AI rout.
yesterday 17 20
CXMT closes in on LPDDR6 mass production at 12,800 Mbps - the Chinese memory step-up
ChangXin Memory Technologies nears mass production of 12,800 Mbps LPDDR6 mobile DRAM—a real technological leap for China's memory industry, months after its IPO surge.
Aug 1, 2026 at 09:40 12 13
True IDC secures a $2 billion loan for a Thailand data center—the APAC compute shortage extends to Southeast Asia.
Thai carrier subsidiary True IDC seeks $2B in debt for a domestic data center build - Southeast Asia joins the debt-funded AI capex wave.
Aug 1, 2026 at 09:40 11 15
Kioxia expects annual profit to multiply by 31: NAND enters the AI supercycle
Net profit Q1 up 4500%, annual projection 31x - Kioxia joins SK Hynix in the AI memory supercycle. The pinch spreads from HBM to enterprise NAND.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:50 13 14
MCP goes stateless: the spec finally clears the last enterprise blocker
A new Model Context Protocol revision drops the stateful session requirement - the piece that made MCP awkward to scale behind a load balancer. Small change on paper; large one in deployment.
Jul 30, 2026 at 19:38 17 17
KOREN 6.0: Korea rebuilds its national research network as an AI-first, autonomous backbone
The Korea Research Network 6.0 upgrade retires the "gigabit + quantum test" era. It targets 1.6 Tbps backbones, agentic autonomous operations and dedicated AI data-center segments - construction from 2028, completion 2031.
Jul 29, 2026 at 13:00 13 18
Korean banks pivot to 'AI vs AI' after the Hugging Face lesson
The big four Korean financial groups roll out AI-native defensive stacks - Woori's Xint, Hana's HASF, Shinhan's generative pentests, KB in build - as the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident becomes the industry's proof point.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 14 11