China nailed a rocket booster landing and joined the reusable-spaceflight club, Anthropic outsold OpenAI for the first time, and Meta's in the dock over a $200 billion lawsuit.
🤖 AI
GenBio unveils a virtual cell
Nobel laureate David Baker's startup launched AIDO Cell, a model that simulates a human cell from DNA to proteins and predicts drug response. The system took the top score on 24 of 31 Virtual Cell Benchmark metrics.
Z.ai opens up GLM-5.3 API access
The model for code and long agentic tasks costs $1.4 and $4.4 per million tokens — same pricing as GLM-5.2. Open weights were promised, but no date given.
LMSYS releases Miles v0.1
An open RL fine-tuning stack built from SGLang, Megatron-LM, and Ray. On GLM-5.2, the trainable LoRA parameters came out to 212 MB — 0.014% of the base weights.
💻 Software
Mojo goes fully open source
Modular released the compiler and toolchain under Apache 2.0, a week after the 1.0 release. Four years of the language growing with an open community but a closed compiler — now that's over.
GitHub was down for almost 8 hours
Load balancers in the Central US data center choked: autoscaling didn't account for an Istio sidecar pod's limits. A VS Code bug finished the job — retries drove Copilot Token Service traffic from 8,000 requests per second to 100,000.
Cursor moves Git to S3
Engineers described the architecture behind Continuity: a stateless store on top of a write-ahead log in S3 that gives linearizable pushes and horizontally scalable reads.
⚙️ Robots and hardware
LandSpace lands Zhuque-3's first stage
The Chinese private company recovered a booster on its second attempt at a launch site in Gansu — the world's first landing of a stainless-steel stage after an orbital launch. LandSpace is now the fourth company to pull this off, after SpaceX, Blue Origin, and CASC.
Cerebras unveils CS-4
The company claims a 30x inference speed advantage over Nvidia GPUs. Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis are more modest: 4,400 tokens per second on GPT-OSS-120B versus 350 for the fastest GPU service.
💰 Business
Anthropic outsold OpenAI for the first time
In Q2, OpenAI grew revenue 18% to $6.7 billion, while its operating loss widened from $9.3 billion to $12.3 billion. Anthropic doubled sales over the same period to $11.6 billion and turned a small profit.
States seek $200 billion from Meta
A trial kicked off in Oakland over kids' social media addiction: California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey accuse the company of manipulative design and deceiving users. The trial will run 6–8 weeks, with Zuckerberg and Mosseri (head of Instagram) set to testify.
Nvidia backs $105 billion for an OpenAI data center
The chipmaker is backstopping construction of a campus in Ohio that OpenAI is leasing for 20 years. The site will be filled with 1.5 million Nvidia chips — up to $200 billion in revenue by 2030.