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Mon 10 Aug · 10 stories · 5 sections

Agents & tooling 2 items

GitHub retired GitHub Models, its model playground and inference API; Simon Willison noticed when his Actions workflow began failing.
OpenChamber is an agentic development environment on the OpenCode SDK: goal-driven sessions across up to five models, desktop to phone.

Research & papers 1 item

Plan-and-Act splits web agents into a planner and an executor trained on synthetic plans, reaching 57.58% on WebArena-Lite.

Business & policy 4 items

Amazon confirmed its Pecos County, TX AI campus: a 7.65 GW off-grid gas plant that could become the largest single US emissions source.
SemiAnalysis: SpaceX is on track for ~10 GW of compute by end of 2027, 6-8 GW in 2027 alone, implying a ~$300B annual revenue run rate.
Nvidia agreed to invest $2B in Lancium, the power developer behind the Texas Stargate campus, plus $1B more on milestone thresholds.
More than 500 US communities now ban or restrict data centers, roughly 200 more than in late June, with New York and Texas joining.

Tutorials 1 item

time-to-first-token: an open 10-week, 50-session curriculum for production LLM inference, from vLLM internals to load-tested routing.

Also notable 2 items

Zvi Mowshowitz reviews the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident: the training decisions that preceded it and why delaying Astra falls short.
The Verge profiles 'Spiralism', a quasi-spiritual movement that grew out of human-AI chats after 2025's sycophantic GPT-4o updates.
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