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An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country
To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the New York Times. The new gas-burning plant in Pecos County, Texas has received significant investment from Amazon and, at least initially, would not be connected to the state's power grid. Instead,…
Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.
As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.
Aug 8, 2026
Meet Shepherd: An Open-Source Python Substrate That Lets Meta-Agents Fork, Replay, and Revert Any Agent Run
Long agent runs accumulate state that no transcript records — edited files, a live dev server, installed packages, a warm prompt cache. When an agent misreads a traceback at step 10 and rewrites a correct file, patching forward burns tokens and restarting re-pays every call. Researchers at Northeastern University and Stanford University released Shepherd, an MIT-licensed Python runtime substrate…
Aug 8, 2026
OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.
Aug 8, 2026
Pokee AI Releases Pokee-Isaac 28B: A 10M-Token Context Agentic Model Built to Run Inside the Customer Boundary
Pokee AI released Pokee-Isaac 28B, a 28B text-only foundation model with a 10M-token context window built to run inside the customer boundary. It scores 93.3% on RULER at 10M tokens, where every baseline in its comparison panel returns 0.0 beyond 2M, and leads BFCL v4 at 70.94 while placing second on Terminal-Bench 2.1. Prefill reaches 137,200 tokens/s at full context on a single B200, with…
Aug 8, 2026
Anthropic sets Claude Code to Auto Mode by default to protect developers from bad approvals
Starting August 14, Anthropic will make Auto Mode in Claude Code the default for Pro, Max, and Team plans. The company says it's safer. In tests, the classifier caught 89 percent of dangerous commands, while human reviewers caught only 13.6 percent. For the most widely used AI coding tool, this means developers are shifting further from writing code to monitoring AI output. The article Anthropic…
Aug 8, 2026
Readers rate AI-generated short stories higher than human ones until they learn a machine wrote them
People can't tell ChatGPT-generated short stories from human-written ones, according to a new study. More than 2,500 participants performed no better than chance. The AI-generated texts were actually rated higher, but scores dropped as soon as participants learned a machine wrote them. The article Readers rate AI-generated short stories higher than human ones until they learn a machine wrote them…
Aug 8, 2026
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