Chad Collins

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Foundation Models & First-Party Releases — September 23, 2026

Foundation Models & First-Party ReleasesSeptember 23, 2026138Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-23 Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with Industrious for an extended network. [2] 2026-09-23 Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI. [3] 2026-09-23…

AI Industry News — September 23, 2026

AI Industry NewsSeptember 23, 2026343Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-23 Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab (Robert Hart/The Verge) Robert Hart / The Verge: Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR,…

AI Infrastructure Deep-Dive — September 23, 2026

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Findings [1] 2026-09-23 **Know Who Spoke When: Build Real-Time, Multi-Speaker AI with NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Diarization** Where Kimbodo Comes In Kimbodo builds and operates this in production for businesses — see our AI Infrastructure & MLOps practice, or Estimate My Infrastructure. Sources [1] **Know Who Spoke When: Build Real-Time, Multi-Speaker AI with NVIDIA…

Tech Trend Scanner — September 23, 2026

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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, 2026387Views 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, 2026163Views 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, 2026183Views 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, 2026153Views 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, 2026146Views 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, 2026227Views 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, 2026151Views 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, 2026264Views 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…

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