Astral (the VC-backed company behind the popular open source Python tools uv, ruff and ty) have unveiled the first hints at their business model today – a private package registry for companies that use Python My notes here: https://
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Astral unveils private package registry business model for Python
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Stable Diffusion 3.5 runs 1.8x faster with NVIDIA NIM
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Stable Diffusion 3.5 now runs 1.8x faster with the @NVIDIA NIM microservice Our collaboration with @NVIDIA delivers faster performance and streamlined enterprise deployment for our most advanced image models. Compared to the base @Pytorch models these performance gains
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AI Coding Assistants Enable Rapid Product Development Competition
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Buildathon: The Rapid Engineering Competition livestreams this Saturday, August 16. Top developers will compete to build 5+ products in a single day using AI coding assistants – projects that traditionally took weeks. Watch live as they advance through semifinals and finals, and
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Architecture Center: Blueprints for Data and AI Initiatives
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Get blueprints for building and scaling your most critical data and AI initiatives in our new Architecture Center! Whether you’re building pipelines, dashboards or AI models, these reference architectures show you how to get it done fast. A snapshot of you’ll find:
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French Engineer Builds Open-Source Robot with Pollen Robotics
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That's what a French engineer (@jaSimbals) is building for fun (spotted by @RemiFabreRobot) 🤯🤯🤯
— clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) 13 août 2025
Things like that are making me excited about the power of open-source and collaboration for robotics that @pollenrobotics & @huggingface can unleash!
Let's build the future!… pic.twitter.com/zYKA8L6fIgThat's what a French engineer (
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Mistral Medium 3.1 Now Available in Anycoder
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Mistral Medium 3.1 is now available in anycoder as mistral-medium-2508
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Cloud and AI Reshape Software-Defined Vehicle Future
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Richard Rovner, VP of Marketing, explains the challenges facing the software and automotive industries and how cloud, AI, and model-based design are reshaping the future.
— MathWorks (@MathWorks) 13 août 2025
Watch the full video 🔗 https://t.co/UNJXlwhQG1 #SoftwareDefinedVehicle #ModelBasedDesign pic.twitter.com/fBFqIZ3Rg2Richard Rovner, VP of Marketing, explains the challenges facing the software and automotive industries and how cloud, AI, and model-based design are reshaping the future. Watch the full video https://
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Runway’s Aleph: an AI-powered Photoshop for Cinema
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Ce n’est pas du CGI. Ce n’est pas réel. C’est quelque chose de nouveau.
— VISION IA (@vision_ia) 13 août 2025
C’est Aleph de Runway, un nouveau modèle d’IA qui réinvente vos images.
Voyez-le comme un Photoshop pour le cinéma. pic.twitter.com/Qyfgk0NIWUIt's not CGI. It's not real. It's something new. This is Aleph by Runway, a new AI model that reinvents your images. Think of it as a Photoshop for cinema.
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GitHub Codespaces LLM Integration Quick Start Guide
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You can try that out yourself by launching a Codespace using this link: https://
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GitHub Codespaces Enables Free LLM API Access via GITHUB_TOKEN
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GitHub Codespaces provides a free web-based development environment backed by a Linux container… and it turns out it also includes a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable that provides free API access to the GitHub Models collection of LLMs … here's it running my LLM CLI utility