Daily Tech News 7 August 2026

• A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $942 million under a law that so far as I can tell is both unconstitutionally vague and entirely inapplicable. (WSJ / MSN)
  
  Appeals lawyers making bank again.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile OpenAI has fired back at Apple saying that if they were able to steal all of Apple's trade secrets then they weren't all that secret, were they? (Tech Crunch)
  
  I'm not sure that is how it works, Sam.

• AirLLM is a new Python library that streams data on demand from SSD to VRAM for AI tasks, allowing you to run a 2.8 trillion parameter model like Kimi K3 in just 4GB of memory, at a speedy 292 seconds per token. (GitHub)
  
  So only about 10,000 times slower than what is considered acceptable performance.
  
  
  
• China has invented a new self-repairing dress made of living fungus. (Dezeen)
  
  No.
  
  
  
• Measuring the Pareto Frontier of AI models. (DeepSWE)
  
  A Pareto Frontier is a line drawn on a chart through a set of solutions that are each the best at a different task, but there is no single winner.
  
  An interesting point is that GPT 5.6 Luna - which I have never tried - is nearly as good as Claude Fable but much, much cheaper, with the total for the test suite coming to $0.61 vs. Fable's $21.63.
  
  It's even more jarring when compared to Anthropic's supposedly cheapest model, Sonnet, which is weaker than Luna and cost $26.40 to run the suite.
  
  
  
• TSMC is sitting on a billion dollars worth of Apple A20 CPUs waiting for DRAM chips to pair them with. (WCCFTech)
  
  Might want to take a seat. You could be here a while.
  
  
  
• Lenovo laptops in China have been spotted shipping with memory from TWSC (no relation). (Notebook Check)
  
  TWSC is not in the Big Three. It's not even in the Big Five, counting CXMT and Nanya. I'm not sure where it ranks.
  
  
  
• Elon Musk's Terafab is looking to hire a memory process engineer. (WCCFTech)
  
  They'd be silly if they weren't.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:34 AM

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