AMD Bets $5 Billion on Anthropic — and Hands It 2 Gigawatts of the World's Fastest AI Chips
AMD's $5B equity commitment and 2GW of Instinct MI455X GPUs make Anthropic its single largest customer — and a direct challenge to NVIDIA's AI data-center dominance. »
Elon Musk Says He'll Open-Source All of X — Believe It When the Repo Lands
On July 15, Elon Musk announced plans to fully open-source X's entire codebase, with independent auditors to verify production code matches what's published. The FOSS community is sceptical — and has good reasons to be. »
Google Drops Three Gemini Models at Once — Including One Built to Hunt JavaScript Engine Bugs
On July 21, Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a cybersecurity-specialist model called Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber that found 55 unique vulnerabilities in V8 — more than any other AI model tested. »
The Last MPEG-4 Part 2 Patent Just Expired — DivX, Xvid, and a 26-Year Codec War Are Finally Over
On July 19, 2026, the final patent covering MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual expired in Brazil, making the codec that powered the era of internet video legally free worldwide for the first time. »
Blender 5.2 LTS Lands Node-Based Physics and Online Libraries — Two Years of Support Included
Blender 5.2 LTS, released July 14 with two years of guaranteed support, ships a generational upgrade to its physics pipeline through new Geometry Nodes-based cloth and hair simulation, plus on-demand online asset libraries. »