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Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Ships, M5 MacBook Air Announced, and Topaz Cuts VRAM Usage by 95%

Google launches a lightweight Gemini variant. Apple's M5 chip promises 6.9x faster AI video. Topaz Labs introduces NeuroStream for running heavy models on consumer GPUs.

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Anthropic Ban is Pentagon-Only, Commercial Access Unchanged

Google and Microsoft confirm Anthropic models remain available for civilian use. The defense ban is narrower than initial reports suggested.

Mar 6, 2026 1 min

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GPT-5.4 Thinking Drops, Broadcom Projects $100B in AI Chips, and Big Tech Pledges to Pay for Its Own Electricity

OpenAI ships a business-focused reasoning model. Broadcom names its six biggest AI chip clients. Seven companies sign a White House pledge to fund their own power infrastructure.

Mar 5, 2026 2 min

Mar 4 — quiet day. pipeline ran, nothing worth posting.

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iPhone 17e Gets a 16-Core Neural Engine, DeepSeek V4 Still Loading

Apple beefs up on-device AI with the iPhone 17e. DeepSeek V4 is supposedly imminent. The US government drops Anthropic for OpenAI across federal agencies.

Mar 2, 2026 1 min

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DeepSeek V4 — multimodal, 1M+ context, optimized for Huawei chips. Expected 'any day now' since March 2. since Mar 2
Nvidia GTC — March 16-19. Jensen promising 'surprising' new chip announcements. since Mar 4