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InfraMistral promises European compute and a choice of where your data livesRegional endpoints are now generally available: pick Europe or the US and processing stays there. Alongside comes a European compute programme targeting up to 1 gigawatt by 2030.BuildersVercel fenced its agent sandboxes with a network wallA box that isolates the processor but leaves the network open lets an agent carry the data out without ever leaving the box. Vercel adds a host-level firewall and keeps secrets outside the sandbox entirely.CommerceShopify ends duties paid at the door on August 24Managed Markets is dropping support for the scheme where the recipient pays duties on delivery. Merchants who do nothing switch automatically to payment at checkout.BuildersJetBrains put agents on a shared protocol and called it the LSP momentACP separates the editor from the agent: you swap agents without swapping environments and without losing project context. GitHub Copilot works as a protocol server, Claude Code connects through an adapter.DesignA London studio builds identities with code and calls it materialStudio Dial builds visual systems with generative code: the motion of mixing a cocktail becomes the pattern in the menu, and every drink gets its own image. Their code is material in a designer's hand, not a machine drawing instead of them.FrontierJeff Dean left Google after 27 years and started Discovery LoopOn August 5, Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals left Google and launched Discovery Loop - a public benefit corporation, with a mission to automate research cycles in frontier science. The departure was announced in the same letter from Sundar Pichai that put Koray Kavukcuoglu in charge of Gemini.FrontierGoogle handed Gemini to Koray Kavukcuoglu - Demis Hassabis moves up to a higher seatAs of August 5, Koray Kavukcuoglu is senior vice president of Google DeepMind and reports directly to Sundar Pichai - he takes over the Gemini models, frontier research, the Gemini app and the developer teams. Demis Hassabis remains Chairman of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, and continues to lead Isomorphic Labs.FrontierClaude did not solve the Riemann hypothesis. It raised the bar beneath itAnthropic published a mathematical result produced with Claude: the proven share of zeta function zeros on the critical line rises from 41.6% to 67.2%. Not a solution to the hypothesis. Something rarer: a verifiable step.
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