LibreOffice 26.8 Is Here: Paragraph Composer, Variable Fonts – and Deliberately No AI
LibreOffice 26.8 brings the new Paragraph Composer, native variable fonts and many Calc improvements – and deliberately skips intrusive AI.
LibreOffice 26.8 brings the new Paragraph Composer, native variable fonts and many Calc improvements – and deliberately skips intrusive AI.
DeepSeek has made its V4-Pro model generally available – built for AI agents, with up to a 1 million token context, across app, web and API.
UC San Diego researchers used AI to decode the “initiator” – a hidden on switch for genes, found in about 60% of human genes.
Marvell grants Google the right to buy up to $12.2 billion in shares in exchange for AI chip orders. Marvell stock jumps.
The Linux Foundation has unveiled OpenMDW-1.1, a unified licence for open AI models – Nvidia is adopting it for several model families.
OpenAI will go public “in 2027 or sooner”, its CFO says. Beforehand, staff sold shares worth $7 billion – at an $852 billion valuation.
Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 5 – its new flagship for coding and agents, at roughly half the price of Fable 5 and with a new effort dial.
Twitch uses streamer content to train Amazon’s AI – enabled by default for everyone. A new opt-out setting now lets creators object.
Google unveils the Pixel 11 line: Pixel 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro XL with the new Tensor G6 chip, Gemini Nano and improved cameras. On sale 20 August.
Modular has released Mojo 1.0: the AI- and performance-focused language now promises API stability, lambda syntax and memory-safety diagnostics.