August 2026

140 posts from 29 blogs.

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140 of 140 issues

Date	Issue	Topic	When
Aug 31	What Happens Inside an AI Chatbot Between Enter and the First Word? ByteByteGo · Aug 31 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3w ago
Aug 31	Spark 4.1.0 Released , How Twilio Tracks Lakehouse Staleness , Replacing Fivetran at Scale TLDR Data · Aug 31 · Data engineering	Data engineering	3w ago
Aug 31	OpenAI Cursor split , self-improving AI , GPT-6 Astra TLDR AI · Aug 31 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3w ago
Aug 31	OpenAI blocks Cursor , Apple's new CEO , GitHub Agentic Workflows TLDR · Aug 31 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3w ago
Aug 31	Onbarding roulette, “Aha” AI meetings, and weekly readings Refactoring · Aug 31 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3w ago
Aug 31	I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China Understanding AI · Aug 31 · Policy and society	Policy and society	3w ago
Aug 31	ChinAI #373: The OpenClaw Hype and Overestimating China’s Diffusion Advantage ChinAI · Aug 31 · Policy and society	Policy and society	3w ago
Aug 31	Understanding ChatGPT Work Simon Willison's Newsletter · Aug 31 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3w ago
Aug 31	LWiAI Podcast #255 - Gemini 3.7, Jalapeño, Qwen 3.8, Drones Last Week in AI · Aug 31 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3w ago
Aug 31	Agency and Agents One Useful Thing · Aug 31 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3w ago
Aug 31	Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI Import AI · Aug 31 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3w ago
Aug 31	Data Engineering Weekly #285 Data Engineering Weekly · Aug 31 · Data engineering	Data engineering	3w ago
Aug 30	Unbounded self-improvement and its limits #599 Exponential View · Aug 30 · Tech business and strategy	Tech business and strategy	4w ago
Aug 30	The Sequence Radar-Issue #923: Last Week in AI: AI’s Industrial Turn TheSequence · Aug 30 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 30	Most Neoclouds Suck At Security SemiAnalysis · Aug 30 · Chips and infrastructure	Chips and infrastructure	4w ago
Aug 28	Hacker Newsletter #807 Hacker Newsletter · Aug 28 · Software engineering	Software engineering	4w ago
Aug 28	GLM-5.3’s Exploits, AI Models and Hardware Speed Up, DeepSeek’s New Agent Harness The Batch · Aug 28 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 28	How I built this Ben's Bites · Aug 28 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 28	Gemini Omni 1.1 , Cohere Parse , Codex persistent mode TLDR AI · Aug 28 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 28	How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job Platformer · Aug 28 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 28	Anthropic's hardware standard , Meta's Claude spend , agent files TLDR · Aug 28 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 28	How to have ideas benn.substack · Aug 28 · Data engineering	Data engineering	4w ago
Aug 28	Community updates: taking time off, AI club, and next events Refactoring · Aug 28 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 28	The Sequence Robotics - Issue #922: Learning About LeRobot: The Transformers Moment for Robots TheSequence · Aug 28 · AI research	AI research	4w ago
Aug 27	You can't scale vibes (Guy Podjarny) The Analytics Engineering Roundup · Aug 27 · Data engineering	Data engineering	4w ago
Aug 27	Who let the agents in Ben's Bites · Aug 27 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 27	DuckLabs Joins AWS , LinkedIn’s Cognitive Memory Agent , Chaos Testing Kafka TLDR Data · Aug 27 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 27	Meta settles with the states over child safety failures Platformer · Aug 27 · Tech business and strategy	Tech business and strategy	4w ago
Aug 27	The Sequence Opinion #921: AI’s Sixth Layer Is Finance TheSequence · Aug 27 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 27	The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI The Pragmatic Engineer · Aug 27 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 26	Giving agents dynamic autonomy Refactoring · Aug 26 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 26	The Sequence Learning Loop - Issue #921: Learn About DeepSeek New Model, the Env Harness Paper and the Amazing Etched TheSequence · Aug 26 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 26	From Vibe Coding to the AI Software Factory SeattleDataGuy · Aug 26 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 26	Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori The Pragmatic Engineer · Aug 26 · Software engineering	Software engineering	4w ago
Aug 26	Building an Operational Ontology: An E-Commerce Walkthrough Data Engineering Weekly · Aug 26 · Data engineering	Data engineering	4w ago
Aug 25	Agents on your mobile Ben's Bites · Aug 25 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 25	Last Week in AI #342 - Last 3 Months in AI Last Week in AI · Aug 25 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 25	Why Ramp built its own in-house coding agent, Inspect The Pragmatic Engineer · Aug 25 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 25	OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell SemiAnalysis · Aug 25 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 24	The Politics Behind Metrics , Unlearning Pandemic Demand , The Art of Indexing TLDR Data · Aug 24 · Data engineering	Data engineering	4w ago
Aug 24	Protecting reasoning, getting your hands dirty, and weekly readings Refactoring · Aug 24 · AI research	AI research	4w ago
Aug 24	ChinAI #372: China’s Overhyped Embodied AI Sector ChinAI · Aug 24 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 24	Data to start your week Exponential View · Aug 24 · Tech business and strategy	Tech business and strategy	4w ago
Aug 24	AgentX - InferenceXv3: Does CUDA Moat Hold up in Agentic Inferencing? SemiAnalysis · Aug 24 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 24	Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye Import AI · Aug 24 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 24	Data Engineering Weekly #284 Data Engineering Weekly · Aug 24 · Data engineering	Data engineering	4w ago
Aug 23	Why one AI is better than four #598 Exponential View · Aug 23 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5w ago
Aug 23	Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code Simon Willison's Newsletter · Aug 23 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5w ago
Aug 22	The problem with petards Exponential View · Aug 22 · Tech business and strategy	Tech business and strategy	5w ago
Aug 22	How Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text Ahead of AI · Aug 22 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5w ago
Aug 21	Roundup: Why your sales team shouldn't query Gong directly The Analytics Engineering Roundup · Aug 21 · Data engineering	Data engineering	5w ago
Aug 21	Hacker Newsletter #806 Hacker Newsletter · Aug 21 · Software engineering	Software engineering	5w ago
Aug 21	Anthropic’s Watermarks, Grok 4.6 Surges, Qwen’s Open Weights, Better Corrections for Speech Recognition The Batch · Aug 21 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5w ago
Aug 21	How I built this Ben's Bites · Aug 21 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5w ago
Aug 21	The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief Platformer · Aug 21 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5w ago
Aug 21	The model is man-made benn.substack · Aug 21 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5w ago
Aug 21	Burnout is a System Issue , with Dominika Rogala Refactoring · Aug 21 · Software engineering	Software engineering	5w ago
Aug 21	How America Turned Against the AI Industry The Algorithmic Bridge · Aug 21 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5w ago
Aug 21	Are Open Models Catching Up? SemiAnalysis · Aug 21 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5w ago
Aug 20	Simple agents Ben's Bites · Aug 20 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5w ago

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