Chad Collins

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Tech Trend Scanner — September 23, 2026

Industry NewsSeptember 23, 2026162Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-23 Eight Sleep’s new Pod 6 comes in smaller and solo sizes, starting at $1,999 Eight Sleep said the new pod is now 20% faster than the previous generation [2] 2026-09-23 YouTube is building AI creator tools that do almost everything for them Part of the job of a content…

Release & Changelog Watcher — September 23, 2026

Industry NewsSeptember 23, 2026162Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-23 Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-first observability for agents and applications AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Omni, an evolution of Amazon CloudWatch. Omni is an AI-powered observability experience organized around your teams and the applications they run, so that you can observe and troubleshoot your applications and agents in one…

AI Infrastructure Deep-Dive — September 22, 2026

ResearchSeptember 22, 2026118Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-23 SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and interesting things with and on…

GitHub Release Monitoring — September 22, 2026

GitHub Release MonitoringSeptember 22, 2026128Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-23 v0.34.4-rc0: mlx: speed up Qwen 3.8 prompt processing (#18550) mlx: speed up Qwen 3.8 prompt processing Use MLX's gated-delta kernel for long scans and fold dense MLP global scales into SwiGLU. address comments [2] 2026-09-22 langchain-openai==1.6.4 Changes since langchain-openai==1.6.3 release(openai): 1.6.4 (#40775) chore(model-profiles): refresh openai model profile data (#40774)…

AI Startups, Funding & Market Activity — September 22, 2026

AI Startups, Funding & Market ActivitySeptember 22, 2026102Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-22 Xem Open-source email marketing with managed SMTP Discussion | Link [2] 2026-09-22 MiMo-V2.6 Open omnimodal intelligence, trained in public Discussion | Link [3] 2026-09-22 Shootsolo 2.0 Voice-controlled camera + teleprompter for solo creators Discussion | Link [4] 2026-09-22 QuietGlass Screen privacy for your Mac, with…

Curated AI Newsletters & Summaries — September 22, 2026

Curated AI Newsletters & SummariesSeptember 22, 2026111Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-22 🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science How often do you get to talk to a guest who has both an Academy Award and who invented textbook machine learning algorithms? John Platt has an Oscar, two textbook algorithms, two named asteroids,…

AI Security & Cybersecurity — September 22, 2026

AI Security & CybersecuritySeptember 22, 2026114Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-22 Unmasking EvilTokens: Getting to the root of device code phishing In this article What is device code phishing?EvilTokens platform and operationsEvilTokens phishing emailsMitigation and protection guidanceMicrosoft Defender XDR detectionsHunting queries Following its emergence in February 2026, EvilTokens quickly became one of the most widely used phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platforms, providing cybercriminals… The…

Release & Changelog Watcher — September 22, 2026

Industry NewsSeptember 22, 2026108Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-22 Better prompt caching for GPT-6 Learn how GPT-6 improves prompt caching with higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, explicit breakpoints, and controls that reduce latency and costs. [2] 2026-09-22 Billing Transfer now supports automatic billing group creation for two-level transfers AWS Billing Transfer users can now enable the Auto-Billing…

AI Coding & Developer Tools — September 22, 2026

AI Coding & Developer ToolsSeptember 22, 2026180Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-22 Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s newest Opus model, is now available in GitHub Copilot. You can use it for agentic coding, long-running agentic tasks, and knowledge work. In early testing, Opus 5.5 resolved tasks comparably to Claude Opus 5 while using significantly fewer…

AI Research & Papers — September 22, 2026

AI Research & PapersSeptember 22, 2026237Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-22 Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research Patricia and James Poitras ’63, longtime MIT supporters, have launched a fellowship program for graduate students and postdocs studying major mental illness, expanding their MIT philanthropy to directly support early-career scientists. The commitment establishes 50 two-year…

Data Science, Python & R — September 22, 2026

Data Science, Python & RSeptember 22, 2026106Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-22 Hardware-Agnostic Models in vLLM TL;DR To achieve state-of-the-art performance at the frontier, vLLM is changing its internal implementation in ways that make it incompatible with fullgraph torch.compile. This may have consequences for users who care about out-of-tree accelerators, older GPUs, or more exotic models.… Figure 1: The current state of model…

Agents & Agentic AI — September 22, 2026

Agents & Agentic AISeptember 22, 202698Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-22 v2.1.280 What's changed Added Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5), now the default Opus model — 1M context, $4/$20 per Mtok with $0.20/Mtok cache reads Added mouse support to more lists in fullscreen mode: the wheel scrolls the /skills list, and a skill's state options… grep with no matches) as failures Fixed background…

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