Conventional DRAM and NAND hit record highs in July: the memory squeeze widens
Korean industry data show conventional (non-HBM) memory prices at all-time highs in July—the AI supercycle now spills into the general-purpose stack.
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"Cancelling Cursor": Quality debt takes precedence over feature velocity
Alex Yumashev (Jitbit) explains why he unsubscribed from Cursor: VSCode base 7-8 months behind, 7 bugs reported in a year and never fixed, Agent mode forced with every update, ghost support. An individual signal that perfectly illustrates the editor-orchestrator divide.
19 h ago 11 10
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.
19 h ago 9 12
OpenAI’s “Astra” reportedly cracked 10 open math and CS problems—let’s wait for the evidence.
Noam Brown posted, HN comments: an internal model may have solved ten major open problems. Nothing is published. We observe, we do not conclude.
19 h ago 8 8
ByteDance internal re-org: Feishu team absorbed by Doubao, enterprise sales moved to Volcano Engine
This is an internal ByteDance restructuring, not a startup transaction: the Lark/Feishu productivity team is being folded into the Doubao AI product org, while Volcano Engine takes over B2B distribution.
Aug 1, 2026 at 09:40 15 17
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
Sarvam full-stack pivot: Sovereign India chooses vertical integration
Sarvam AI moves from the model to the full stack - model + product + distribution - in a market where public procurement conditions access to data.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:51 14 16
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
OpenAI restores ChatGPT Work / Codex 5-hour limits after fixing a GPT-5.6 Sol token bug
The rate limit holiday ends. OpenAI turns the 5-hour caps back on 29 July after patching a GPT-5.6 Sol overconsumption bug that had been running since 12 July - with a claimed 18% net capacity uplift.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 15 11
SQLite as your only database - a production tuning walkthrough
A field guide argues embedded SQLite can carry a real production workload - if you know the WAL/mmap/VFS knobs. Under the hood, plus the trade-offs it won't fix.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 11 13
Verizon locks $1B of dark fiber for Google - the DC bottleneck spreads to the backhaul
Verizon signs $1 billion of dark fiber dedicated to Google data centers, presented as "the first of many". After the chip, electronics, and water, long-distance optical capacity becomes the next AI bottleneck.
Jul 28, 2026 at 21:00 9 9
Inside Anthropic's engineering: the AI lab keeps dogfooding, quietly
The Pragmatic Engineer publishes a "deepdive" on Anthropic's internal engineering. The surprising read: "ever more" code review and testing by AI, but the two-pizza teams hold. Smoothing, not flipping.
Jul 28, 2026 at 20:57 8 10