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Consider an AI agent tasked with a complex enterprise workflow like migrating massive batches of customer records from a legacy CRM to a cloud database. The agent cannot rely solely on its internal context window for a job spanning hours and depends on the runtime layer, aka the harness.This harness provides execution feedback, like server…
Traders are suddenly betting on whether Ghent University will fire Nathan Cofnas before 2028. A Manifold market asking exactly that saw roughly 59% of its all-time volume trade in a single day, with the odds of a firing settling near 22% as of August 28, 2026. The spike lines up with a real employment dispute:…
Cross-platform mobile development still comes down to two names: React Native and Flutter. Nine years after Facebook open-sourced React Native and five years after Google shipped Flutter’s first stable release, the argument over which one to bet a product on hasn’t gone away. It’s just gotten more technical. Both frameworks shipped major updates in August…
OpenAI stopped shipping one flagship model at a time back in July 2026. GPT-5.6 arrived as a three-tier family instead: Sol, Terra, and Luna, each aimed at a different budget and a different job. Seven weeks later, that pricing structure has already been cut twice, the free ChatGPT tier has switched its default model, and…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young —Antonio Regalado I knew I’d officially become a “longevity influencer” when a company called Generation Lab offered me the…
Valve’s redesigned Steam Controller sold out inside an hour of its May 4, 2026 launch, and eight months later it is still the hardest gamepad to actually buy. That scarcity has pushed a lot of PC and Steam Deck owners back toward the two controllers everyone already owns: Microsoft’s Xbox Wireless Controller and Sony’s DualSense.…
Meta put a number on the table on August 10, 2026, and the number is 30 billion. That is the parameter count of Muse Glimmer, an open-weight AI model that Meta Superintelligence Labs says is small enough to run on a single consumer GPU, no data center required. The release, detailed on Meta’s official research…
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system. But utility and energy companies increasingly want to treat them like one. A virtual power plant, or VPP, is a collection of household devices (such…
The advisory arrived from CISA on August 12, 2026, and it read like most of the ones before it: patch known exploited vulnerabilities, keep offline immutable backups, and segment the network so a single infected laptop can’t become a company-wide outage. That last instruction is the one most organizations still skip. The NIST Zero Trust…
Google AI Pro costs $19.99 a month. Google AI Ultra starts at $99.99 and tops out near $199.99 for the highest-limit tier. Those numbers look simple on Google’s own pricing page, but the real cost of getting into Gemini’s top model depends heavily on where you live, what payment methods your bank supports, and whether…
