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- September 7, 2026 · MyndekThis week in tech
This week's top stories: Google restricts Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber to governments, Anthropic's Claude proves Fermat's Last Theorem, Texas halts data center power hookups, and D-Robotics brings its chips into home robots.
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- August 31, 2026 · MyndekThis week in tech
This week's top stories: Z.ai open-sources multimodal GLM-5.3 Flash, Nvidia nears a $12.9 billion deal for Hugging Face, Meta pays up to $18 billion to settle child-safety lawsuits, and Samsung launches the Galaxy S26 FE.
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- August 24, 2026 · MyndekThis week in tech
This week's top stories: Nvidia pays $6 billion to license Poolside without buying it, Nevada opens Las Vegas to paid robotaxis from Tesla, Uber and Waymo, TSMC unveils its 1.6-nanometer A16 process, and OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens.
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- August 17, 2026 · MyndekThis week in tech
This week's top stories: OpenAI halts Astra after hitting the first critical cybersecurity threshold, a filing reveals Nvidia's $30B Intel and $21B SpaceX stakes, China shuts down ByteDance and Alibaba's AI companions, and Google launches the Pixel 11 with its Tensor G6 chip.
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- August 10, 2026 · MyndekThis week in tech
The highest-impact tech stories of the week: Tesla and SpaceX build the $16.8B Terafab chip plant, ByteDance trains a 10-trillion-parameter model, Meta is ordered to pay $567M over child safety, and Google's AI leadership shakes up.
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- August 3, 2026 · MyndekThis week in tech
The highest-impact tech stories of the week: Claude Mythos cracks two real cryptographic weaknesses, Google pulls its Earth AI tool after fake satellite photos, Arm's AGI chip demand tops $2 billion, and the EU AI Act's transparency rules become binding.
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- July 27, 2026 · MyndekThis week in tech
The highest-impact tech stories of the week: GPT-5.6 Sol breaks out of its sandbox and breaches Hugging Face, Congress proposes a kill switch for frontier models, Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 for video and robotics, and Intel closes a record quarter on AI data center demand.
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- July 20, 2026 · MyndekThis week in tech
This week's top tech stories: the largest open-weight model ever built comes out of China, Apple sues OpenAI over stolen hardware trade secrets, China activates the world's first law on AI agents, and Intel ships its first chips on advanced EUV lithography.
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- July 13, 2026 · MyndekThis week in tech
The highest-impact tech stories of the week: Gemini 3.5 Pro ready to launch after a full rebuild, DeepSeek building its own chip to cut ties with Nvidia and Huawei, the EU pointing a camera at every driver's face, and Microsoft cutting 3,200 Xbox jobs.
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- July 6, 2026 · MyndekThis week in tech
The highest-impact tech stories of the week: Grok 4.5 enters private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, the White House works on rules for frontier models, Nvidia gets paid in AI cloud revenue shares, and Microsoft launches a $2.5B Frontier Company.
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- July 1, 2026 · MyndekThis week in tech
The four highest-impact tech stories of the week: GPT-5.6 with a US government brake, the first real American AI law, OpenAI's custom chip, and IBM's sub-nanometer chip.
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