A sharp essay maps the commoditization of digital goods and software onto the TEMU playbook - and asks what's left when everything ships at near-zero marginal cost.
14/08/2026 à 18h57 7 6
A project posted on ziggit.dev announces a drop-in replacement for Bun, rewritten in modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds. The question: does the JavaScript runtime really need a fork?
25/07/2026 à 10h27 10 9
Salesforce is expanding how AI agents connect to its platform using the Model Context Protocol and routing agent interactions through Slack. When the platform holding enterprise customer data adopts a protocol, other vendors face pressure to follow.
21/08/2026 à 16h08 7 10
A developer used Claude to reverse-engineer and modify a $27 smartwatch - documenting the full process. The exercise is a useful stress test of AI coding assistance at the hardware/software boundary, where hallucination has physical consequences.
20/08/2026 à 22h32 5 9
Logs, traces, and metrics already contain the information needed to diagnose most microservice incidents. ORCA builds a repair loop that reads them - so on-call engineers don't have to do it at 3am.
19/08/2026 à 09h33 11 13
French publishers have formally asked France's competition regulator to act against Google's AI news summaries. It's the sharpest test yet of whether EU neighbouring rights apply to the AI inference layer.
14/08/2026 à 18h59 6 7
Shenhai Zhiren, backed by BYD, has raised 500 million yuan and launched SEAgent 1.0 - an underwater AI agent model. The vertical foundation model trend is extending into environments where general-purpose models simply cannot operate.
14/08/2026 à 18h58 8 7
Export controls have cut off H100/H200 access for Chinese enterprises. ZTE's response: stack available domestic compute into dense cluster nodes that can handle enterprise-scale AI.
10/08/2026 à 16h31 9 10
A QCon performance engineering talk from OpenAI surfaces the infrastructure decisions behind ChatGPT's latency targets - and how the product's shift from chat to agent changed every assumption.
09/08/2026 à 00h59 10 10
A $567 million judgment against Meta signals that US states are finding legal pathways to hold platforms accountable for algorithmic harm to minors - without waiting for federal legislation that may never arrive.
07/08/2026 à 10h55 9 11
Alibaba reportedly intends to attach revenue-sharing conditions to its next major Qwen release - a departure from fully open licensing that tests whether open-model adoption can convert into direct monetization.
07/08/2026 à 10h54 10 9
A one-year moratorium on new data centers - the first in any US state - signals that AI's power appetite is now a political liability, not just an engineering problem.
04/08/2026 à 23h33 15 14
