Est. MMXXVI No. 20 ◆ Archive
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**HostGator Discounts Up to 76% on Hosting Plans for July 2026** — wired.com
Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A — techcrunch.com
Orbital Brings Plant-Wide AI to Oil and Gas — techcrunch.com
Greylock caps new fund at $1.5 billion, choosing restraint over raising more — techcrunch.com
Skullcandy Enlists Bose to Boost Audio Credentials — wired.com
**HostGator Discounts Up to 76% on Hosting Plans for July 2026** — wired.com
Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A — techcrunch.com
Orbital Brings Plant-Wide AI to Oil and Gas — techcrunch.com
Greylock caps new fund at $1.5 billion, choosing restraint over raising more — techcrunch.com
Skullcandy Enlists Bose to Boost Audio Credentials — wired.com

Open-weights milestone

Thinking Machines releases Inkling, a 975B MoE open-weights model with 1M token context

Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B total / 41B active parameter open-source MoE model with up to 1M token context and native multimodal reasoning over text, images, and audio. The model features ShortConv attention, shared expert sink MoE, and day-one production support via SGLang with CUDA graph prefill, MXFP8 KV cache, and DFlash speculative decoding. Open weights are available immediately.

Research & Papers

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E3 framework estimates task complexity, cutting AI agent costs by 85%

Hardware & Robotics

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Meta's custom Iris AI chip to begin manufacturing in September 2026

Tools & Startups

05

Ternlight ships a 7MB embedding model running entirely in-browser via WASM

Money & Markets

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Oak raises $60M seed to fix AI-native identity and access management

In Brief

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