Week of September 21, 2026

Monday, September 21

• How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

  Cloudflare Blog·00:17 UTC
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  Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’

  The Verge AI·15:09 UTC
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  Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI agent

  The Verge AI·15:09 UTC
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  UN says AI safeguards can’t wait for certainty

  The Verge AI·15:09 UTC
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  Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini

  TechCrunch AI·15:09 UTC
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  tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured

  Hugging Face·15:12 UTC
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  Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem

  Hugging Face·15:12 UTC
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  Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all?

  MIT Technology Review·15:13 UTC
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  How V7 gives AI agents institutional memory

  OpenAI·16:07 UTC
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  Automatic Key Exchange: faster, post-quantum secure origin handshakes for 45 billion daily connections (and counting)

  Cloudflare Blog·16:07 UTC
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  No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown.

  The Verge AI·16:07 UTC
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  Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think

  The Verge AI·16:10 UTC
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  Introducing Astra for Law

  OpenAI·16:16 UTC
• Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’

  TechCrunch AI·16:16 UTC
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  1.1.1.1 now supports post-quantum DNSSEC, all 2,420 bytes of it

  Cloudflare Blog·16:18 UTC
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  Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

  Google AI Blog·16:18 UTC
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  AI for Societal Impact

  Google is deploying AI to spot wildfires, predict cyclones, and detect diseases, turning research into real‑world tools for communities.

  Google AI Blog·16:56 UTC
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  Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems

  Humans still pose the biggest cyber threat to power grids, but AI tools make bad actors more powerful and faster.

  The Verge AI·17:08 UTC
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  Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv

  A coding model learns to paint watercolours by RL over aesthetic preference, using a hand‑rated image pool and a JavaScript drawing library.

  Hugging Face·17:08 UTC
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  How Microsoft’s Physical Security Engineering Team scaled hybrid operations with Azure Arc and Azure Virtual Desktop

  Microsoft used Azure Arc and Virtual Desktop to unify and automate security ops across its global datacenters, cutting manual work and speeding updates.

  Microsoft Azure Blog·17:08 UTC
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  How we rebuilt Cloudflare Workers’ module registry for Node.js compatibility

  Cloudflare rewrote its Workers module registry to match Node.js, making larger apps and better module handling possible.

  Cloudflare Blog·17:08 UTC
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  Introducing automatic remediation policies with Cloudflare CASB

  Cloudflare CASB now auto‑remediates risky file shares and other misconfigurations, letting teams act instantly without manual clicks.

  Cloudflare Blog·17:09 UTC
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  Helping older adults use AI in everyday life

  OpenAI hosts free ChatGPT workshops for 1,000 older adults to boost AI skills and online safety.

  OpenAI·17:09 UTC