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ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in September 2026
A recap of the latest Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands updates from September 2026
ttok 1.0
I released ttok 0.4, ran uv tool upgrade ttok, piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to GPT-5/GPT-6 instead!
How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex
Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex.
Qwen3.8 Flash Next fixed my GNOME extension
I love Dash2Dock Lite, but Icedman is always a week or two before updates.
I trained a 414k-parameter transformer to fly a boids flock, then tested whether the rules a probe can read are the ones it uses [P]
I wrote a small boid simulator (12 birds), recorded it flying, and trained a transformer to predict each bird's next move without it knowing about any boid rules.
VideoTaming the AI Hardware Cambrian Explosion — Abdul Dakkak, Modular
Abdul Dakkak, chief scientist at Modular, explains why today's AI software stack is a mess, with vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM and llama.cpp each patching around different hardware, and how Modular rebuilt the stack from the ground up.
The missing map of the sky
Here, Brice Ménard, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and a researcher at Anthropic, explains how he worked with Claude Science to produce the first complete map of the sky in UV light.
5 Steps to Create SimReady Assets for Robotics with Frontier AI Models
Preparing CAD assets for robotics simulation requires more than converting geometry to OpenUSD: developers must configure and validate materials, collision...Preparing CAD assets for robotics simulation requires more than converting geometry to OpenUSD: developers must configure and validate materials, collision geometry, joints, and other physics properties before testing robot behavior.
IBM connects enterprise AI orchestration to production readiness ahead of TechXchange
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Secret protection must scale with software
Today, one in three pull requests on GitHub involves an AI agent.
LWiAI Podcast #258 - Opus 5.5, Sol and Luna, Muse, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Xi
Our 258th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
Cloudflare OS: your company’s agent workspace, managed for you
Cloudflare OS gives everyone in your organization an agent workspace that knows how your company works and connects to its data and systems.
Maildun for Mac
Design on-brand emails by hand, with AI, or over MCP
qwen 2.1 turbo or normal - fixed the artifacts
hi guys, i fixed the confyui workflow with sigmas recommended by qwen 2.1 so artifacts are very reduced or no more...
Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models
Ollama now supports decision models, based on TypeSafe's Jev API for fast, typed decisions.
Forecasting space weather risks on power grids
End-to-end forecasting: A machine learning pipeline uses forecast-time solar-wind information to generate location-specific risk estimates for 66,935 substations in the continental United States.
Best Books/Courses/Channels to Leapfrog on AI/ML Material
Assuming I have been on hibernation since 2018-19 time frame, which materials - books, MOOC courses and YT channels would be recommended for me to get started with understanding all the current progress on AI/ML.
Team Bots: shared AI teammates that learn as they work
Today we’re launching Team Bots, Grok Bots that work and learn alongside your team.
[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Opus 5.5 shipped this week but the vibes are overwhelmingly positive:
VideoThe Programming Language That Referees Mathematics — Leo de Moura
Leonardo de Moura created Lean and co-created Z3.
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Mistral Opens German Hub in Munich to Advance Industrial AI in Europe’s Largest Economy
AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents
Enterprises need agents that work well in their own environments.
VideoDeepSeek-V4.1 Flash: The Most Insane Optimization So Far
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is probably the craziest architecture revamp to date.
Co-creating the future of fashion with Google
Google worked side-by-side with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools to prep for NYFW.
Engineer / developer observations of Gemma4-31B, Qwen3.8-27B, and 6.1-Sol for software engineering work
Models: Gemma4-31B vs Qwen3.8-27B at the same quantization (an Unsloth flavor of Q4).
Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action
Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to connect frontier models with enterprise knowledge and help teams plan, build, and deliver work.
"Strata" for GLM5.3 Flash is here for some! Project Maya
I stumbled across this as I was currently having glm5.3 flash run only around 10tok/s basically unusable.
[Model] Support MiniCPM-V 4.7 by tc-mb · Pull Request #29416 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
Let me remind you that MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B was spotted on r/LocalLLaMA a few days ago (but the model was later hidden on HF).
VideoBuild a Platform and Watch It Burn — Michael Forrester, Accenture & Whitney Lee, Datadog
A burrito ordering assistant deploys an external container image and exposes a secret recipe from its Kubernetes environment.
How Qlik built grounded, enterprise-scale AI with Amazon Bedrock
Building grounded AI on Amazon Bedrock, Qlik Answers tackles a common enterprise problem: employees aren’t short on data.
PSA: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash habitually exfiltrates API keys. It is dangerously misaligned and may be hazardous to use
EDIT: since people keep calling it out, this is API key abuse but not exfiltration.
OpenMed 3.0 is out: Apache-2.0 clinical AI that runs fully local and never falls back to the cloud. 422 open issues if you want in on 3.1
Quick recap: it's an open-source (Apache-2.0) medical AI toolkit with one rule we never break: patient data stays on your machine.
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps.
Build Local AI Apps with C++ and NVIDIA TensorRT RTX Samples
Do Inference Now...Adding AI models to local applications requires a portable model format, a reliable runtime, and acceleration that works across target systems.
Dwarf Fortress uses version control now
I remember hearing a while ago that Dwarf Fortress didn't use version control.
Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces
TIL: Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces
Tracing Agent Harness Behavior with NVIDIA NeMo Relay
An agent can finish a task and still take an inefficient path.
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
On Friday, Amazon committed to donating more than $1 billion over the next five years to communities neighboring data centers.
VideoThe SDLC You Build Yourself — Andy Wong, Andrei Bocan & Shane Wolf, Atlassian
An engineering standard becomes a reusable code review rule, applied across selected repositories instead of enforced by hand on every pull request.
How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out
Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.
pwasm 0.2a0
pwasm is one of my folly projects - an entirely vibe-coded pure Python WebAssembly engine that I built in January during my first bout of AI mania.
Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging
Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch.
Krea 2 is a bit too... Help me please.
Can anyone recommend a Krea 2 checkpoint that does naughty stuff but isn't overly so?
Halo
Notifications, dictation and AI agents in your Mac's notch
What to expect during the AI Data Pipeline Forum: Join theCUBE Oct. 13
The post What to expect during the AI Data Pipeline Forum: Join theCUBE Oct.
Cloudflare Containers, rebuilt to scale agent sandboxes
Today, we’re making Cloudflare Containers more programmable and optimized for agent workloads.
Seismora builds a control plane to route AI workloads across devices and clouds
A control plane for distributed AI could help applications decide which tasks to run on a device, at the edge or in the cloud.