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China’s Chip Champion 470%’d Its Way to Number One. Retail Punters Paid For the Party.

CXMT opened up ~470% in Shanghai and became China’s most valuable listed firm. Retail buyers funded a chip-nationalism project and now hold the risk.

OpenAI is winding down Agent Builder and Evals by 30 November 2026. If you built on the visual canvas, here’s the migration move to make now.

n8n’s July 2026 release adds built-in evaluations for AI workflows. Here’s how to test your automations before they go live and cost you money.

Microsoft released the agent harness on 22 July 2026. Here’s what an agent runtime really is, and the plumbing that makes AI agents finish work.

Black Forest Labs unveiled FLUX 3 on 23 July: one model for image, video, audio and robot actions. The open-weight version comes last.

Midjourney flipped V8.2 to default on 24 July: bolder aesthetics and sharper personalisation, no price rise. Here is the honest read.

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to backstop $250bn for OpenAI’s Ohio megasite. That is vendor financing at a scale that should worry you.

Maine librarian Hannah Cyrus started an ‘Avoiding AI’ class. Now there are waitlists, and dozens of libraries want in.

Hubble and Webb pinned down Omega Centauri’s first stellar-mass black hole using two decades of patient, publicly funded data.

Alphabet just lifted its 2026 AI spending to $205bn and got slapped for it. Inside the strangest bull market in a generation.