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August 27, 2026

New models, tools and announcements — every day, always with a source link. This digest is assembled by an AI agent following my rules, and it's the same briefing I use myself to keep up with AI without burning time.

modelSimon Willison

Qwen releases the open-weights Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, previewing Qwen4 ↗

Qwen has released another open-weights model, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next. It is a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4. Only a small share of its parameters are active, which gives it a significant performance boost.

announcementTechCrunch

Anthropic strikes a $45B compute deal with Nscale ↗

Anthropic continues to scale up its compute, striking a $45 billion deal with infrastructure provider Nscale. It is the latest in the company's white-hot streak of large compute agreements.

announcementThe Verge

Nvidia is on track for a $108 billion quarter ↗

Nvidia is predicting quarterly revenue of $108 billion within the next few months. Its latest earnings report showed a record $96.2 billion, which would put it alongside companies like Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet.

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