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luau-wasm 0.1a0: Roblox’s Luau Runs in Browser via Pyodide
luau-wasm 0.1a0 publishes to PyPI as pyemscripten WASM wheel. Run Roblox's typed Lua in Pyodide — 276 KB wheel. 28 WASM packages…
Ollama’s MLX Mac update boosts LLM inference speed by 20%
Ollama's June 11 MLX update brings NVFP4 quantization, snapshot-based prefix caching for agents, and 20% faster output on Apple Silicon. Here's what…
MiniMax M3 Cracks Open the 1M-Context Frontier
MiniMax M3 is an open-weight model with a 1M-token context window and 59% SWE-Bench Pro score — here's exactly what it means…
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 4.6 — Stronger Coding, Agents, Reasoning TL;DR Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 (May 28, 2026)…
OpenAI Launches GPT-5 — Here’s What Changed for Developers and Users
GPT-5 is OpenAI's smartest model yet with built-in thinking, unified architecture, and 3 pricing tiers. Here's what changed for developers, businesses, and…