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Aug 4, 2026

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·VentureBeat

Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use

Alibaba’s Qwen team introduced Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4T-parameter mixture-of-experts multimodal model aimed at autonomous software engineering and enterprise agent tasks. The company cl...

Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use
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·TechCrunch

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

Palantir CEO Alex Karp used the company’s strong quarter, including $1 billion in profit, to renew criticism of frontier AI labs. He argued that many AI providers are too unreliabl...

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·VentureBeat

Asana's AI agents share memory across your company — but not your secrets

At VB Transform 2026, Asana CPO Arnab Bose explained how the company built Agentic Work Management to make AI agents operate more like coachable teammates than isolated copilots. T...

Asana's AI agents share memory across your company — but not your secrets
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·TechCrunch

Snap CEO sidesteps Specs preorder questions on Q2 earnings call

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel did not directly answer questions about Specs preorder demand during the company’s Q2 earnings call. Asked about product-market fit, he said mass-market adopt...

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·The Verge

Your Fitbit data can now connect directly to Apple Health

Google is rolling out an update that lets Fitbit data, including workouts, steps, and vitals, sync directly into Apple Health. Previously, users could import Apple Health data into...

Your Fitbit data can now connect directly to Apple Health
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·seangoedecke.com

LLMs make basic work easier, but expert users get better results by steering models with domain knowledge

The article argues that while LLMs let nearly anyone perform generalist tasks like writing passable code or prose, effective prompting still depends heavily on expertise. It uses T...

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