The Edition
Monday, August 3, 2026
The 6 stories two independent AI reviewers judged worth reading this day, ranked by editorial score.
Hacker News · Engineering · Business
Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300
Wafer's benchmark claims AMD's MI355X serves the 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 at better performance per dollar than NVIDIA's B300, challenging NVIDIA's grip on frontier-model inference.
Hacker News · Policy & Society · Business
OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics
A synthetic news outlet apparently tied to OpenAI's $125 million political operation is publishing attacks on AI critics, meaning PAC money may now fund fake journalism targeting policy advocates.
TechNode · Engineering · Business
Alibaba launches Qwen3.8 with 2.4 trillion parameters
A 2.4-trillion-parameter model aimed at coding and office work is now available via API, with open-source Max and 27B versions promised next week.
TechNode · Business
Moonshot AI reportedly closes $3.5 billion round at $35 billion valuation
A reported $3.5 billion raise at a $35 billion valuation gives Moonshot AI fresh capital to scale ahead of a possible Hong Kong listing.
CIO · Business · Policy & Society
Data center backlash could slow CIOs’ AI plans
State moratoriums and new power tariffs are raising US data center costs, forcing CIOs to recalculate the economics of planned AI deployments.
CIO · Business · Engineering
Microsoft doubles down on multi-model AI as it builds a Copilot super app
Microsoft is consolidating its Copilot agents into one super app this quarter, making a direct bid to own the enterprise AI workflow layer.