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Model trackers multiply as release dates and training cutoffs diverge

A tracker published on 16 September lists 20 current AI models across 8 labs. It shows the gap between the day a model ships and the day it stopped reading. Only 10 of the 20 carry a training cutoff their lab actually publishes.

TSMC posts record quarter as Micron warns DRAM supply stays tight

TSMC reported record fourth-quarter net income of NT$505.7 billion (about $16 billion), up 35 percent year over year, while Micron said it can meet only half to two-thirds of demand from key memory customers.

Search traffic to publishers is falling fast, and the biggest losers are the smallest sites

Search referral traffic to small publishers fell 60% over two years, according to Chartbeat data reported by Axios, nearly three times the decline at large publishers. Media leaders surveyed by the Reuters Institute expect search referrals to drop another 43% over the next three years.

How AI accelerators are built: the packaging, memory and design bottlenecks

IBM's Project SWIFT Ran a Layer in 5 Hours. Modern Fabs Take 19 to 36

Self-hosted inference, not API pricing, is where the cost gap is widest

Agents That Rewrite Their Own Models: What the Security Tests Found

What a UT wearable sleep study actually measured, and what it did not

Europe's night train map keeps redrawing itself, and the paperwork is the hard part

Google's Quantum Supremacy Claim and the Milestone Race That Followed

NASA Loses Swift Rescue and Starling Scores a First: Two Lessons in Space Autonomy

Automated Fabs and Quartz Mines: Where Chip Capacity Really Comes From

Robotaxi troubles: what Tesla and Waymo incidents reveal about self-driving

AI Job Fears Grow as US Sheds 23,000 Jobs and Grads Face 5.7% Unemployment

EU AI Act Enters Its Toughest Phase as Europe Weighs Its Own Rules

Fusion's 2026 Scoreboard: Four Private Results, One Public Project and a Lot of Unfinished Business

Open weights are not open source, and the gap is starting to show

UK Safety Institute Benchmark Cracked as Kimi K3 Cloned the Answers

Europe's night train network has rebounded from fewer than 30 routes to more than 60

Waymo, Uber and Tesla: the robotaxi edge cases that keep turning into recalls