The Archive
The Archive
Game Reviews
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 landed on 27 August
Konami's Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 is out on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, Switch and Switch 2, with Metal Gear Solid 4 and Peace Walker.
Tech
Z.ai and Qwen ship the same hybrid-attention graph
26 August. GLM-5.3-Flash is 320B total, 18B active, MIT. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is 125B with 6B active. Both land on a 3:1 linear-to-sparse stack.
Tech
IBM cuts the LLM out of Granite Speech and ships 470 million parameters
Same day as Granite 4.2. Two English ASR models, no language-model backbone. IBM's H200 number is 12,600 RTFx.
Tech
IBM ships Granite 4.2 as three dense Apache reasoners
IBM's Granite 4.2, out 25 August, is three dense reasoning models at 3B, 8B and 30B, trained on about 15 trillion tokens. Apache 2.0.
Ciphers
Catch, then the ship
A Caesar five, Morse from the pad, and a tiny A-is-1 reflight.
Tesla
Optimus Gen 3 goes into the old S/X hall
Tesla told JPMorgan in August that Optimus Gen 3's design is finalized and a production line is going into Fremont's old Model S/X facility.
Tesla
Sparks inaugurates the Semi plant on 24 September
Tesla's Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada, was set to be inaugurated on 24 September, Tesla Semi posted. The plant is aimed at 50,000 trucks a year.
Tesla
Tesla told JPMorgan v15 runs on AI4
At Fremont in August, Tesla called FSD v15 a step-change the size of v13 to v14 and said the AI4 computer already in the car can run it unsupervised.
Christian
State Department names nearly $2 billion for faith-based partners
The State Department has named nearly $2 billion for faith-based health and disaster partners, including World Vision and Compassion.
Space
ExoMars landing platform model unfolds its legs in Turin test
ESA posted the Turin test on 6 August: four landing legs, two pairs, less than a second. Rosalind Franklin is starting to look like a landing.
Christian
National Church Life Survey is open through October
The eighth National Church Life Survey is open through October. Twenty-one denominations are in. Late congregations can still sign the sheet.