This Week in AI: OpenAI’s Custom Chip, Gemini Gets Computer Use, and Qualcomm Buys Modular
June 24, 2026 turned out to be one of the most packed days in recent AI news. Three major announcements
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LoopCoder-v2: Why Two Loops Beat Four in Test-Time Compute Scaling
The dominant scaling narrative in large language models has been straightforward: more parameters, more data, more compute. But there’s a
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OpenTelemetry in 2026: Profiles, Arrow Pipelines, and the Path to Unified Observability
OpenTelemetry has had a remarkable 2026. What started as a project to unify traces, metrics, and logs has grown into
How MiniMax Sparse Attention Achieves 28x Compute Reduction at 1M Context Length
The attention mechanism is the backbone of every transformer model, but it carries a brutal cost: quadratic complexity with respect
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5 Trending GitHub Repos: Apple’s Container Runtime Hits 1.0, LLM Token Compression, and AI Skill Security
The GitHub trending page this week is dominated by AI agent tooling, but tucked between the skills and plugins are
Microsoft’s MAI Models at Build 2026: Seven New AI Models and What They Mean for Developers
Microsoft’s Build 2026 conference delivered a move that had been anticipated for months but still landed with weight: the company
SkillOpt: Training AI Agent Skills Like Neural Networks
AI agents have a skill problem. You give a language model a system prompt — or “skill” — and it
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5 Trending GitHub Repos: Agent Governance, Terminal Multiplexers, and Document Ingestion
The GitHub trending page is a weekly ritual for many developers — a quick scroll to see what the community
The AI Coding Agent Landscape in 2026: Codex CLI, Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot Compared
A year ago, most developers interacted with AI coding tools through inline completions — a few lines suggested here, a
Constraint Decay: Why Your AI Agent Forgets the Rules (and What to Do About It)
Editor’s note (September 12, 2026): Four months on, this piece holds up well — both studies remain the reference points
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