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Apple puts M5 Max and M5 Ultra in the Mac Studio
On 25 August Apple put M5 Max and M5 Ultra in the Mac Studio. Pre-orders are open, and it ships on 22 September. The 512 GB model follows in late October.Nvidia puts Groq 3 LPX into production
Nvidia said at Hot Chips on 24 August that its Groq 3 LPX rack, with 256 LP30 chips, is in full production. Nebius is the first AI cloud on the list.Apple's 2nm M6 lands in the Mac mini, M5 Ultra in the Studio
Apple's first 2-nanometre chip starts at US$899 in the Mac mini, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio starts at US$5,499. Both ship on 22 September.Tesla sets its Cybercab launch in Austin for 3 September
Tesla set an invite-only Cybercab launch in Austin for 3 September, with RSVPs closing on 30 August. Its invite promised a livestream for everyone else.CISA named the week’s exploited bugs and put due dates on the cards
26 and 27 August adds to the KEV catalog. NetScaler and SQL Server were due 29 August. A kernel row is due today. The list stays. The how-to does not.AWS is working to bring NVIDIA's 88-core Vera CPU to its cloud
AWS is bringing NVIDIA's Vera CPU to its cloud. The chip has 88 custom Olympus cores, up to 1.5 TB of memory and a 1.8 TB/s link to Rubin GPUs.Samsung’s S26 FE is first in the family onto One UI 9
Samsung's Galaxy S26 FE is the first S26 phone on One UI 9 and Android 17. It goes on sale from 4 September, with no price on the newsroom pages.Blue Water won DEF CON CTF at the West Hall
Blue Water won the DEF CON 34 capture-the-flag contest, ahead of 0x4B52 and SuperDiceCodeLovers. AUTOCRYPT Red Team swept the car-hacking board.DEF CON banned recording glasses. Prescription recorders are not exempt.
DEF CON 34 banned recording glasses, with no exemption for prescription pairs. Covert filming breaks its Code of Conduct, but visible cameras are fine.HD Moore releases OOBscan to audit server management chips
HD Moore released OOBscan, a free open-source tool that checks servers' remote management chips for exposure, at Black Hat USA on 5 August.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.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.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.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.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 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.Pad 40 hands Florida Starlink to Starship
The last planned Falcon 9 Starlink from Florida left SLC-40 at 5:33 a.m. Tuesday. The pad is not retiring. The constellation is changing vehicles.NASA books Falcon Heavy for Europe’s Mars rover
The Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation project is in implementation. The launch is late 2028 from 39A — likely SpaceX’s first throw at Mars.Fujitsu puts Monaka's cache on its own 5 nm die
Fujitsu's 144-core Monaka chip puts its cache on a separate 5 nm die, the company told Hot Chips on 24 August. Volume production is due in 2027.Arm sells AGI, a finished 136-core server CPU
Hot Chips, 24 August. Two TSMC N3P chiplets, up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores, 300 W. Arm will sell you the socket, not just the recipe.
