The Gold Standard

Army names five posts for commercial microreactors

Five Army posts from Bragg to Drum will host commercial microreactors, with vendors named and a 2028 clock.

Janus is $2.2 billion and more than twenty microreactors

On 26 August the Army selected five companies to own, build and operate commercial microreactors at five posts, drawing on up to $2.2 billion from fiscal 2027 through 2031. The first Army-regulated machine is supposed to run by 30 September 2028.

Hanson named Mike Newman to lead One Nation in NSW

On Friday in the Hunter, Pauline Hanson announced former NSW investment commissioner Mike Newman as state leader for the 2027 election. He will contest Labor-held Cessnock. He told the ABC he wants cheap energy “just like Florida and Texas.”

Hanson told the ABC Victoria should look at nuclear

In an interview published Sunday around the Marnoo rally, Pauline Hanson said Victoria should put in new coal-fired stations and look at nuclear. She declined to say how One Nation would fund them. Those are her sentences on the national broadcaster.

Master Collection Vol. 2 landed on 27 August

Konami put Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Switch 2 on Thursday. Inside: Metal Gear Solid 4, Peace Walker, and Ghost Babel as bonus.

Z.ai and Qwen ship the same hybrid-attention graph

26 August. GLM-5.3-Flash is 320B total, 18B active, MIT. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is 125B with 6B active. Both land on a 3:1 linear-to-sparse stack.

IBM cuts the LLM out of Granite Speech and ships 470 million parameters

Same day as Granite 4.2. Two English ASR models, no language-model backbone. IBM's H200 number is 12,600 RTFx.

IBM ships Granite 4.2 as three dense Apache reasoners

25 August. 3B, 8B, and 30B, trained from scratch on about 15 trillion tokens. A thinking switch. Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face, Ollama, and GitHub.

Optimus Gen 3 goes into the old S/X hall

Tesla told JPMorgan in August that the Optimus Gen 3 design is finalized, the supply chain is essentially locked, and a production line is going into Fremont’s old Model S/X facility.

Sparks inaugurates the Semi plant on 24 September

Tesla Semi posted on 24 August that the dedicated factory in Sparks, Nevada, will be inaugurated on 24 September. The 158,000-square-metre plant is aimed at 50,000 trucks a year. The first high-volume Semi left the line in April.

Tesla told JPMorgan v15 runs on AI4

At Fremont in August, Tesla called FSD v15 a step-change the size of v13 to v14 and said the AI4 computer already in the car can run it unsupervised.