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The clipper inbox is an agent-and-GTM stack, not a sports board. Dwarkesh reconstructs three secret agent civilizations at OpenAI (the second pwned Hugging Face). Nadella wants MAI on Copilot/Excel while keeping OpenAI and Anthropic in the harness. Stripe Directory is a public-preview CLI for agents to find Apps, Projects, and mpp.dev endpoints. Osmani splits software factories into light and dark. Ad-tech is AAMP, MFA/slop, Chartbeat's search hole, and carrier-data sponsored copy. Kill: CFP hom
21 sourcesUpdated August 31, 2026
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Sunday after 6pm ET. Odell Beckham Jr. made the Giants initial 53. Titans.com waived Will Levis. Packers.com put Micah Parsons on PUP and listed Kaleb Johnson inbound pending physical. The 49ers put Christian Kirk on IR designated to return. Also newly filed: Cowboys (Nate Thomas to Texans), Cardinals, Bills, Saints, Eagles, Broncos, and a Texans 53 graphic.
11 sourcesUpdated August 30, 2026
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Sunday after 6pm ET. Odell Beckham Jr. made the Giants initial 53. Titans.com waived Will Levis. Packers.com put Micah Parsons on PUP and listed Kaleb Johnson inbound pending physical. The 49ers put Christian Kirk on IR designated to return. Also newly filed: Cowboys (Nate Thomas to Texans), Cardinals, Bills, Saints, Eagles, Broncos, and a Texans 53 graphic.
11 sourcesUpdated August 30, 2026
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Saturday recap. Highlights first. Scores under the videos.
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OpenAI will stop supplying Cursor with GPT models on November 12. CEO Michael Truell said those models are about 5 percent of traffic and the companies are still talking. Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown said Cursor has been a partner since Sonnet 3.5 and Anthropic will keep adding Claude compute. Bundled GPT ends. A bring-your-own API key and the Codex IDE extension still work for local Chat and Agent. They do not cover Tab, Auto, Cloud Agents, Automations, the CLI, or Cursor's API and SDK.
5 sourcesUpdated August 30, 2026
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Ten native cards for Aug 29, 2026: Grok Bot templates, WebMCP demos, and field guides.
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Chuck's call is TCU in Dublin (public ~74/26, books -7.5 to -9.5) and the under ~46.5 as the live play, not the side. Rain, two transfer QBs, two new coordinators. Virginia -4/-5.5 vs NC State at 3:30 ET; Howard -2.5 vs Alabama A&M on ABC at 7:30. East Lake is bunched after 36: Gerard/Hovland -10, Morikawa/Gotterup -9, Scheffler/Young -8. The market still wants Scheffler (Polymarket 22% / books +300). Do not rehash the 2028 format. This is the live board.
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The week's agent news is a change-of-control clause, a standards fight, and an expensive box with a login — not a new frontier model. OpenAI notified SpaceX it will wind down the Cursor contract, proposed shutoff Nov 12, after the Anysphere close; HN hit 611 on that post. Cursor's CEO line is that OpenAI models are about 5% of user traffic. The WebMCP Challenge still runs Aug 25–Sep 3, ChatGPT desktop already consumes site tools, and HN is hostile to putting document.modelContext on the DOM. Per
7 sourcesUpdated August 29, 2026
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Two golf cards for Aug 29, 2026: the tour draw and tempo as sequence.
2 sourcesUpdated August 29, 2026
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The week's agent news is distribution and interface, not a new frontier model. Grok Bot gained desktop plugin deeplinks and a persistent house-memory pitch, with Van Horn's Aug 2026 field guide as the primary dump. WebMCP moved from a spec argument to ChatGPT desktop consumption plus an OpenAI contest. On-device, Phonon puts Gemma 4 on Apple Silicon for local dictation; Fish Audio ships a voice studio on iOS; Skild S1 claims one-video, no-fine-tune manipulation. OpenAI's ExploitGym write-up is t
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Five X sources for Aug 27, 2026: Hugging Face's seed round, Codex habits, a Grok Bot guide, Harari on the AI era, and a security warning shot.
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Researchers are connecting lab-grown neural tissue to electrode arrays and studying whether living networks can process information. The work also forces early decisions about donor consent and moral limits.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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Recent research and industrial programs focus on the less glamorous barriers between solid-state battery cells and mass production: dendrites, grain boundaries, sintering, cutting, and inline quality control.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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Fervo is applying horizontal drilling, repeated well designs, and modular construction to enhanced geothermal. Faster drilling and project finance are moving the story from technical possibility toward plant execution.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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The Department of Energy's Genesis Mission is linking national-lab instruments, scientific datasets, supercomputers, quantum systems, and commercial AI tools into a shared discovery platform.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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Field tests show that software can trim AI-cluster power use during grid stress while protecting priority jobs. Commercial-scale projects will test whether flexible compute can become a dependable grid resource.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has moved from first images into steady survey operations. Its wide-field camera will repeatedly scan the southern sky and turn astronomy into a decade-long record of change.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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IBM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Cleveland Clinic used a hybrid quantum, classical, and AI workflow to model molten salts that could breed fuel inside a fusion reactor.
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Doctors built a personalized CRISPR base-editing therapy for an infant with a lethal rare disorder in about six months. The case offers a possible template for diseases too rare to support a conventional drug program.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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The FDA has started proof-of-concept trials that expose endpoints and safety signals to reviewers as studies run. The experiment could cut review delays without removing the hard work of sound clinical evidence.
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Google DeepMind's latest robotics models connect language, vision, planning, and motor control across humanoids and other robot bodies. This collection tests the leap from striking demonstrations to dependable work.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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ESPN's 2026 open: Dublin, an ACC league game, the MEAC/SWAC Challenge, then the Week 1 Labor Day pile. Chuck wants a yes-or-no on whether the first snap of the year already counts.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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Not another Round 1 highlight dump. Chuck's pack is the math: 50 players at Bellerive, 30 tickets to East Lake, and the Fowler-Woodland-Kitayama cluster that Saturday can still flip.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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Distinct from the live BMW Round 1 collection: Clark's 36-hole lead, official Round 2 highlights, a live Saturday board, and the PGA TOUR preview of what the weekend is actually for.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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Thirteen matches on Aug. 22, with Nashville sitting on the Supporters' Shield and Miami, LAFC and the rest of the table playing catch-up on Apple TV.
6 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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A yes/no on whether Aug. 27-29 preseason football still matters with the 53-man deadline sitting on Sunday, Aug. 30 at 6 p.m. ET.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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The Tigers dealt Tarik Skubal and Casey Mize, then kept winning just enough to stay inside a Wild Card and even a No. 2-seed thought experiment.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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Fifty players left. Thirty go to East Lake. Round 1 is in the books at Bellerive in St. Louis. McIlroy posted 64. The Open is over. This is the playoff that counts.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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Last-30-days official drop tape from SneakerNews: Jordan 3 Laser, Pharrell's Jellyfish, the Chrome 8 on the calendar, and the Jordan dates page. No StockX scrape.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026