AI & ML
Sutton Quits Carmack's Lab to Declare War on LLMs
Richard Sutton, the father of reinforcement learning, has left John Carmack's Keen Technologies to co-found Oak Lab and take direct aim at the LLM approach.
NVIDIA Turns Into a Cloud Landlord With Revenue-Share GPU Deal
NVIDIA's new revenue-share model pulls in Sharon AI's 40,000 GB300s and a 170,000-GPU Firmus campus in Batam. The chipmaker now wants recurring cloud rent, not just silicon margin.
Workday Launches Agent Passport With Cisco as Sole Tester
Workday's Agent Passport ships Q3 2026 in early access with exactly one testing partner, Cisco, and no answer yet on who pays when a vetted agent misbehaves.
Base44 Trains Its Own Model as Vibe Coding Hunts Defensibility
Base44 just rolled out Base1, its in-house LLM trained on user data, betting that vertical integration beats renting Claude Opus by the token.
DeepMind's Brain Drain: Shazeer and Jumper Walk in 48 Hours
Two of Google DeepMind's biggest names walked out in 48 hours. The market wiped 5% off Google's shares. The engineering question is what that exodus actually signals.
OpenAI and Broadcom Tape Out Jalapeño Inference Chip in 9 Months
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a blank-slate LLM inference ASIC taped out in nine months and aimed at gigawatt-scale deployment with Microsoft by end of 2026.
Anthropic's Claude Tag Lands in Slack: What Engineers Need to Know
Anthropic dropped Claude Tag into Slack this week, replacing the old chatbot with a multiplayer agent powered by Opus 4.8. Here's what it breaks and what it fixes.