Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search
A Productrise and UK data study: when the same product ranks in both Google AI Mode and traditional search, the AI Mode price…
The archive
Every article, newest first. Follow a topic to narrow the reading list or search the full archive.
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share…
Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, but it always…
Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
Browse all models available with Cerebras Shared Inference.
WeatherNext 3
WeatherNext 3 is the first global weather model that generates forecasts every hour of the day. It delivers local data for people and…
Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
Audacity 4.0
Audacity 4.0 Audacity 4 rebuilds the application interface on Qt and introduces many new quality-of-life improvements, including a new clip-editing model. Most Audacity…
Pre-Release of Polars 2.0
Preview of Python Polars 2.0, bringing the streaming engine to all lazy queries
Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
Shin Jin-seo, the world's top-ranked Go player, on Tuesday completed a dramatic comeback against the world’s premier artificial intelligence Go engine, K
Music Theory for Programmers
Runjs can't play an instrument, so Runjs worked out music theory in JavaScript instead. Twelve notes, scales and chords, derived from scratch with…
Muse Spark 1.3
Trained for agentic workflows and optimised for competitive coding performance.
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber deliver next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity.
Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of the sources behind grounded AI recommendations sit outside the 100,000 most-visited websites, and several of the most-cited…
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Anthropic’s most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Their research capabilities also offer an early glimpse of how AI models will contribute…
Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
Description Currently, Aurora Store, including Nightly (2026-08-31), returns a “&$Server busy, please try again later.” error when attempting...
The browser’s main thread is expensive
What comes to mind when you hear "frontend optimisation"? For most of Kciter it's things like reducing network requests, shrinking the bundle,…
AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Last updated: 2026-08-29; Google Ticket Number: #9-2777000041594 TL;DR: What GitHub needs From Google: clarification on whether an IRS 501(c)(6) determination satisfies "tax exempt…
GPU World
Imagine the future, evenly distributed: a world with one GPU per person.