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Frontier Models for Every Robot: Announcing our API beta
Physical Intelligence opens a beta of the Pi API, letting robotics developers upload data, fine-tune its latest robot foundation models on managed compute and run cloud-hosted inference on their own hardware, and shares results from early partners deploying it across different tasks, robots and industries.
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Indra OCR: a 1M-parameter OCR model that reads 49 pages per second on CPU
Datalab releases Indra OCR, an open OCR package built around a 1M-parameter recognition model that reads 49 pages per second on 32 CPU cores, 11-17x faster than Tesseract and PP-OCR, while returning full layout with line and block boxes, labels, reading order and clean markdown or JSON output.
7 min · 1,500 words
Zero to Calc in Six Days: Inside XBOW’s Chrome Full Chain
XBOW walks through the Chrome full-chain exploit its AI agents built in six days, chaining a V8 compiler bug, an animated-WebP decoder bug and a Crashpad memory-safety bug to escape the renderer sandbox, which earned Google's first $250,000 full-chain reward under its April 2026 VRP rules, plus lessons for LLM-era vulnerability research.
17 min · 3,973 words
How we built the AssetHoard MCP server
AssetHoard’s Mark Gandolfo explains how the library’s built-in MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor, and other agents search owned game assets and export into a project—and why the server is locked down so file contents stay on the user’s machine.
10 min · 2,254 words
The quiet math revolution (and where do we go from here)
Marcus Johansson reacts to OpenAI’s dump of 722 model-written math manuscripts, asking what machine-checked proofs mean for mathematical practice, who still understands the results, and where Terence Tao’s “Math 2.0” idea leaves human mathematicians.
10 min · 2,396 words
One-shotting an Unreal Engine plugin from a 3,000-line plan
Jack Minnetian describes writing a 3,000-line plan for a voxel painting tool in Unreal Engine, handing it to an agent that returned more than 25,000 lines in fourteen hours, and what the success and failure modes say about plan-driven coding agents.
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Announcing pg_vectorsearch: Scalable Open-Source Vector Search in PostgreSQL
Tiger Data launches pg_vectorsearch, an open-source PostgreSQL extension whose PRISM index uses partitioning and compression instead of HNSW graphs to deliver faster vector queries with far less memory and quicker index builds.
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Rewinding the exponential: How we keep hardware usage down
Cloudflare’s Data team explains how it reined in an exponentially growing analytics pipeline—rewinding retention, compression, and query patterns—so hardware and cost stay sustainable while more than 20% of the web sits behind its network.
10 min · 2,215 words
Redesigning source control at Anthropic
Anthropic explains how merges to its monorepo grew from about 2,500 to over 30,000 per day in 2026, why git hosting became the bottleneck, and how it built and migrated to Scion, an in-house version control system, in five months, plus lessons and ideas for the wider git ecosystem.
16 min · 3,745 words
Character.ai announces it has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale, explaining the board’s reasoning, that the platform stays up during the process but will be wound down if no actionable bid emerges, and how users can manage or export their data.
2 min · 454 words
The Creusot team announces version 0.14.0 of their formal verification tool for Rust, highlighting selected new features for contracts and proofs and pointing to the full changelog for the release.
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Railroads, UPenn, and a Well-Loved UNIX Machine
A restoration log for an AT&T 3B2/300: from a 43MB hard-drive backup the author reconstructs the machine's history, from short-line railroad operations to railroad expert-witness consulting, plus development material for UPenn's telephone class-registration system PARIS, with records spanning 1984 to 2002.
5 min · 1,116 words
10 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition of "Site Reliability Engineering"
Google announces a completely rewritten second edition of its Site Reliability Engineering book, ten years after the first: how SLOs, observability, automation, reliability testing, capacity management and SRE org models have matured, how SRE supports and uses AI, and why culture still matters.
3 min · 718 words
Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions for fast, consistent web app performance anywhere
AWS introduces Lambda Web Functions: run standard HTTP servers (Express, Hono, Fastify, Next.js and other Node frameworks) on Lambda without event-handler adapters, with multi-concurrent requests, active CPU billing, one-command multi-region deploy and latency-based routing alongside Event Functions and MicroVMs.
5 min · 1,051 words
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team finds small open-weight models may be months from self-replicating across cheap IoT devices such as off-brand Android TV boxes: a 9B model set up inference on 8 of 9 hardware types, and GLM-5.2 completed end-to-end replication in simplified evals.
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Corey Prophitt describes shipping marketyour.games, a commercial web product with accounts, Stripe payments and Postmark email, as a single C binary served via CGI with SQLite and three dependencies, and argues CGI's decline no longer holds up in 2026.
5 min · 1,237 words
We kept renting GPUs after getting 7 quotes to buy them
Agora's Param Jaggi walks through seven vendor quotes from Madrid resellers, colocation providers and a carrier for buying GPU servers, and the cost model showing that $354,100 of hardware would take until year nine to beat renting two servers for $7,200 a month, plus advice for teams weighing the same decision.
18 min · 4,160 words
My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping
Law professor Eric Goldman shares his introduction to a Reddit AMA on US web scraping law: the social benefits and harms of scraping, why trespass-to-chattels law is a mess, and why a scraping campaign must survive many doctrines, from contracts to copyright, to be legal.
8 min · 1,825 words
The Politics of the “Non-Political”
Yibin Fan introduces a conceptual review, co-authored with Yufan Guo in Political Communication, of how researchers define the boundary between political and 'non-political' content as political information seeps into everyday life and media.
4 min · 959 words
Three weeks of agentic refactoring: could we trust the result?
A case study of three weeks refactoring DATAMIMIC CE with coding agents: how a before/after verification harness was silently testing new code via an editable-install finder, which results were voided, the architecture guardrails used, and what the team will change next.
6 min · 1,375 words