Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third Flash model in six weeks, matches Claude Opus 5 on some agentic coding benchmarks at lower cost. But its "working harder" reasoning burns about 30 percent more output tokens per task, making it pricier in practice than its predecessor despite identical token rates. The article Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIA appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Weekly InsightAug 11, 2026 · 8 min read
A synthesis of the week ending August 11, 2026: how the DRC copper embargo, Google DeepMind's dual leadership departure, Anthropic's $965B IPO push, agentic energy costs, and enterprise AI pricing restructuring intersect as compounding pressures on the AI infrastructure buildout.
Weekly InsightAug 4, 2026 · 7 min read
Five rogue-model incidents, $600B in combined hyperscaler commitments, and a $200B off-balance-sheet financing structure for Anthropic defined a week where AI's infrastructure ambitions collided with measurable security and grid constraints.
Weekly InsightJul 28, 2026 · 8 min read
Motional and MIT researchers have built a system that lets self-driving cars explain their decisions in real-time, tackling the black-box problem in autonomous vehicle AI. The work, published in Nature, comes from a team at Motional that includes CEO Laura Major, working alongside researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Their proposed method, […] The post Motional and MIT AI explains self-driving car decisions appeared first on AI News.
Read original →Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.
Read original →How Michael Khouw is playing ORCL ahead of earnings.
Read original →The petition comes after a key ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on sports-event contracts.
Read original →De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) has shifted more than 10 billion euros (approximately US$11.6 billion) of its gold reserves out of North America and into London and the Netherlands. Between March and August 2026, the Dutch central bank transferred approximately 86 tons of gold from storage facilities in New York and Ottawa. The operation increased holdings at the Bank of England, regarded as the primary global hub for trading physical bullion, to 32.1 percent of the national reserve, up from 18.1 percent. The central bank sold roughly 59 tons of gold in New York and repurchased an equivalent volume meeting modern international trade standards in London. Concurrently, officials physically shipped over 27 tons from North America to DNB’s Cash Centre in Zeist, while transferring a matching amount from Zeist to London to bypass the need for remelting bars. “With this relocation, we have improved the tradability of our gold reserves. We expect that we will never need to use them, but we do need to strengthen our resilience and preparedness,” said DNB Governor Olaf Sleijpen. The relocation leaves the total size of the Dutch gold reserve unchanged at 612.4 tons, valued at 72.2 euros billion at year-end 2025. Following the transfers, the Netherlands holds 196.6 tons in London and 188.6 tons in Zeist. Holding facilities in New York and Ottawa now store 113.3 tons each, bringing their respective shares down to 18.5 percent from 31.3 and 19.7 percent. Global financial institutions are recently becoming more active towards portfolio management and custody restructuring. World Gold Council (WGC) data indicates that 44 percent of central banks actively managed their gold reserves in 2025, up from 37 percent in 2024. Additionally, 59 percent stored at least part of their gold domestically last year, compared to 41 percent in 2024. Central banks have recorded 16 consecutive years of net gold purchases, accumulating over 1,000 metric tons annually from 2022 to 2024 and 863 metric tons in 2025. Other European institutions have executed similar custody changes. Siince mid-2025, Banque de France sold 129 metric tons of gold held in New York for 13 billion euros (US$15 billion) to repurchase bullion for storage in Paris, while German politicians have increased pressure on the Deutsche Bundesbank to repatriate its 1,236 metric tons stored at the US Federal Reserve. Gold prices have appreciated 290 percent over the past decade amid sustained demand for safe-haven assets. Analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) forecast gold prices to reach US$6,000 per ounce by the end of 2026, setting a longer-term projection of US$4,500 per ounce. Don't forget to follow us @INN_Resource for real-time updates! Securities Disclosure: I, Giann Liguid, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
Read original →State-owned power utility Eskom’s Research, Testing and Development (RT&D) Centre, in Rosherville, Johannesburg, is being positioned as a critical national asset for developing technologies that can support South Africa’s energy transition, strengthen energy security and contribute to broader industrialisation. During a high-level engagement held on September 2, Eskom CEO Dan Marokane, RT&D GM Prudence Madiba and Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa highlighted the growing importance of translating the utility’s energy sustainability research into practical technologies that can be deployed across the electricity sector and wider economy.
Read original →Seven days of digests reveal three interlocking forces: frontier model costs falling faster than security frameworks can adapt, infrastructure capital concentrating under institutional hands, and supply chains from tungsten to HBM being locked in before 2027 enforcement deadlines.
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