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Ladybird: The Browser Engine Built From Scratch, With No WebKit Legacy
Andreas Kling and a small nonprofit team are writing a complete browser engine from scratch - no WebKit legacy, no ads, no search deals. And in June, Ladybird closed public pull requests, becoming the first big project to admit AI broke the old open source…
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ES2026 Is Official: Temporal Finally Replaces the Date Object
ES2026 was ratified in June and Temporal - the long-awaited replacement for the Date object - is officially part of JavaScript, alongside Map upsert, Array.fromAsync, native base64 and Math.sumPrecise. All usable today.
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AI Research That Surprised Me: A Hidden Workspace in Claude, Robot Co-Scientists and the Physics of Water
Three recent AI research findings worth your attention: Anthropic discovers a global-workspace-like structure inside Claude, two Nature papers show multi-agent systems proposing real drug candidates, and a neural network referees a decades-old argument about water.
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Kimi K3: Moonshot 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Model and the End of Very Cheap Chinese AI
Kimi K3 brings 2.8 trillion parameters, a million-token context and benchmark claims just behind the frontier - plus Western-level prices. The era of dirt-cheap Chinese AI may be ending.
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TSMC Record Quarter: 40.2 Billion Dollars on AI Demand and Another 100 Billion for Arizona
TSMC posted a record Q2 2026: 40.2 billion dollars of revenue, profit up 77.4%, HPC at 66% of sales. The foundry numbers are the AI boom audit - and they say demand is real.
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We Must Act Now: 16 Nobel Laureates Sign the 88-Word Warning About AI and the Economy
An 88-word statement signed by 200+ economists and 16 Nobel laureates - including the field loudest skeptics - says the AI transition needs preparation now. Here is why this one matters.
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GPT-5.6 Is Generally Available: What Sol, Terra and Luna Change for Developers
GPT-5.6 went GA on July 9 with three tiers - Sol, Terra and Luna. New naming, agentic plumbing like Programmatic Tool Calling, and a quiet precedent: a government preview before launch.
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Antidoom: How Liquid AI Cut Doom Loops in Small Models from 22.9% to 1%
Doom loops - models chanting Wait, let me reconsider until the context runs out - just got an open-source fix. Antidoom cuts failures on Qwen3.5-4B from 22.9% to 1%.
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Codex Micro: OpenAI First Hardware Is a 230 Dollar Keypad for Your AI Agents
OpenAI first consumer hardware is Codex Micro, a 230 dollar keypad built with Work Louder for controlling coding agents. Silly gadget - or a serious signal about how we will work with AI?
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Apple Intelligence Approved in China: The iPhone AI Will Run on Alibaba Qwen
China finally approved Apple Intelligence in China - running on Alibaba Qwen and Baidu instead of Apple own models. What the 22-month saga says about a bifurcated AI world.