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
APAC's AI adoption gap: the proof-of-concept prison is real and getting worse
"Most enterprise AI in APAC is still stuck in the proof-of-concept room" - the headline is not new, but the pattern behind it has hardened. Weak execution, legacy systems, and unhelpful data are killing rollouts that budgets clearly want to happen.
Jul 11, 2026 at 11:42 3 6
Synthetic customers, real budgets: how one startup swapped focus groups for AI personas
A Singapore-based startup is replacing expensive focus-group panels with AI-generated personas that "respond" like segmented buyer archetypes. It's fast, it's cheap - and it's about to trigger a real methodology fight in market research.
Jul 11, 2026 at 11:41 4 7