New chips and architectures Hot Chips brought a wave of new processor and accelerator details this week, alongside Apple’s latest M-series silicon: IBM and Arm unveiled a 2nm dual-architecture processor for future IBM Z and LinuxONE systems, with cores designed to execute both IBM and Arm instructions and support Arm-native Linux alongside existing IBM workloads.…
Intel showcased three architectures for agentic AI workloads, includin…
Nvidia announced its Groq 3 LPX is in full production, extending infer…
Cerebras detailed how its CS-4 AI accelerator achieved advanced token …
Luffy and Zoro Lead the 'ONE PIECE' x Timberland Apparel and Footwear Collection
SummaryTimberland and 'ONE PIECE' have unveiled a collaborative footwear and apparel capsuleThe range features custom 6-Inch Premium Waterproof Boots and graphic T-shirts honoring Luffy, Zoro and ChopperThe rollout launches September 4 in Japan before expanding to select retailers on September 7Timberland and ONE PIECE have officially announced a collaborative capsule featuring custom iterations of the Timberland 6-Inch Premium Waterproof Boot alongside graphic apparel.…
The project marks Timberland's first official collaboration with the O…
The footwear lineup presents two distinct versions of the classic 6-In…
The Luffy pair retains the iconic wheat nubuck construction, accented …
arXiv:2608.26263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly act as autonomous agents executing complex, long-running procedural skills.…
Existing agent runtimes maintain execution by continually appending ob…
We present SKILL.
state, a runtime architecture that replaces append-only conversational…
The Spring Drive U.F.A. Ushio 300 Is Grand Seiko’s Most Compact Diver To Date
True mastery in watchmaking lies in the delicate balance of form and function, bringing ultra-high precision into the most demanding environments without sacrificing the refined proportion required for everyday wear.…
Guided by Grand Seiko's enduring philosophy that a timepiece should ha…
Ushio 300 Diver merges diving performance with remarkable horological …
At the heart of this duality is the micro-engineering of the Spring Dr…
Microscale Power Management Starts with Microflow Heat Measurement
Dealing with power and associated heat dissipation spans two regimes. First, there’s the macroheat aggregation to manage, which is also relatively easy to measure. Then there’s the microheat—small in
Agent Mesh: Reliability Primitives for Non-Idempotent Agent Delegation - Identity Adequacy and Evidence Adequacy
arXiv:2608.26225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents increasingly perform bounded software tasks under an orchestrator that retries, resumes, and budgets them.…
The machinery such orchestrators reach for is the service mesh's: retr…
We report a failure study of a production agentic software-delivery pl…
All three assumptions those primitives rest on are violated in practic…
arXiv:2608.26200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern video games combine first-person perception, rapid visual changes, persistent world state, and heterogeneous native controls.…
Existing game agents map visual and task context directly to actions b…
World-Action Models (WAMs) unify these objectives, but remain largely …
We introduce GameWAM, to our knowledge the first WAM for native closed…
X claims it found a Chinese bot farm posting anti-AI data center sentiments
X found a bot farm in its investigation of inauthentic Chinese accounts. Out of 200,000 bots, 200 allegedly focused on posting against AI data centers.