2026-09-22Developer toolsMorningTransformers now loads GGUF checkpoints without unpacking themHugging Face wired llama.cpp's own ggml Metal kernels into transformers so quantized GGUF files run with their weights still packed. The scope is deliberately narrow: Apple Silicon, and Qwen3.5 dense and MoE to start.4 min read→
2026-09-21InfrastructureMorningABB launches Infinitus, a source-to-rack DC portfolio for AI data centersThe Swiss electrification group says its new direct-current portfolio is built for racks drawing 1 MW, up from almost 200 kW today. Main components are 12 months out; complete DC-native facilities, two to three years.3 min read→
2026-09-18BusinessMorningSK hynix names its venture arm, and points it past memoryThe memory maker's corporate venture operation has been running since 2015. What is new is the mandate: AI computing, data centers, system software and optical interconnect. No fund size was disclosed.3 min read→
2026-09-17InfrastructureMorningGoogle is buying green steel's certificates, not its steelGoogle will take environmental attribute certificates covering up to 91,000 metric tons of Stegra's first-year output in Boden, Sweden, against the embodied carbon of data center construction. The physical steel goes to someone else, who must make no green claims about it.3 min read→
2026-09-15Model releaseMorningSalesforce built its own reasoning model on NVIDIA's open weightsKoa is post-trained from Nemotron-3-Super-120B and goes into Agentforce as an alternative to rented frontier models. The accompanying technical report is unusually candid about where it lands.5 min read→
2026-09-14ProductMorningApple ships Siri AI in beta, on models it built with GoogleiOS 27 is out and the rebuilt Siri is with it — labelled beta, powered by Apple Foundation Models that Apple says were custom-built with Google's Gemini, and absent in both the EU and China.6 min read→