https://aititus.com/news/A daily one-page pulse on AI, agentic engineering, the state of AI coding, and the wider world.en-usTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:25 -0600https://claude.com/blog/enterprise-managed-authhttps://claude.com/blog/enterprise-managed-authLead story.HeadlineTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:25 -0600https://technode.com/2026/08/24/alibaba-launches-wan3-0-video-model-with-30-second-generation-and-document-input/https://technode.com/2026/08/24/alibaba-launches-wan3-0-video-model-with-30-second-generation-and-document-input/Launched Monday, one day after Alibaba closed its $10.2 billion share sale. Clips run twice as long as the last version, and the model takes documents, spreadsheets, slides and web pages as input, not just text prompts. It ran in public beta since August 6 and is already used for ads, short drama and tourism videos. Feeding it a sales deck and getting a video back is the part worth testing.AI FrontierTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:25 -0600https://x.com/arena/status/2091920512796725272https://x.com/arena/status/2091920512796725272It landed at #9 with 1595 points, six ranks behind its giant sibling Qwen3.8-Max. A 27B open-weights model you can run on one good GPU is now trading blows with frontier systems on real web development tasks. If you have been waiting for local models to get good enough for daily coding work, this is the signal.AI FrontierTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:25 -0600https://openai.com/index/introducing-ai-futures/https://openai.com/index/introducing-ai-futures/Posted August 24 by OpenAI's new Strategic Futures team. The team calls concentration of power the biggest and hardest long-run risk: how does a free society keep individual rights when a few actors control transformative AI? Planned output is posts, papers, videos and podcasts. Worth bookmarking whichever lab you favor.AI FrontierTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:25 -0600https://x.com/andykonwinski/status/2091990178638496195https://x.com/andykonwinski/status/2091990178638496195Andy Konwinski showed an agent that keeps running instead of stopping at the end of a task, fixing its own failures along the way, with a 48-minute self-debugging run as the demo. The always-on agent that watches its own work is becoming a product category, and the hourly cost is already close to nothing.AI FrontierTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:25 -0600https://github.com/amoghmunikote/cmpunlockerhttps://github.com/amoghmunikote/cmpunlockerA kernel patch unlocks the full 64GB of HBM on NVIDIA's CMP 170HX, a card sold cheap for crypto mining. The author reports 84 tokens a second at short context and 57 at 200K, with prefix caching cutting a 200K prefill from 157 seconds to 2.5. Numbers are the author's own, but the repo is public and the recipe is documented.AI FrontierTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:25 -0600https://github.com/affaan-m/ECChttps://github.com/affaan-m/ECCThe agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor What's Being BuiltTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:25 -0600https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agenthttps://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agentThe agent that grows with youWhat's Being BuiltTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:25 -0600https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harnesshttps://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harnessDeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.What's Being BuiltTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:25 -0600http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23564v1http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23564v1Research paper.ResearchTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:25 -0600http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23552v1http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23552v1Research paper.ResearchTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:25 -0600http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23550v1http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23550v1Research paper.ResearchTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:25 -0600