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august 1, 2026

today, on your desk.

Infra and tooling dominated: DeepSeek’s open-weight V4-Flash landed with strong scores, GitHub shipped stacked PRs, and Cloudflare exposed MoQ relays while Vercel added AI spend controls. On the agent/MCP front, Datasette Agent gained in-browser tooling, a new MCP client shipped, and papers like FilmBench and Orca-Bench pushed evals forward. Two deadlines loom: ChatGPT drops GPT‑5.4 models and the EU’s AI labeling kicks in.

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