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Tempo ties AI spend to Jira work items with Workforce Intelligence

Enterprises can finally answer a question they've been too embarrassed to ask aloud: exactly what did that AI token bill buy? Tempo, the Atlassian ecosystem's planning-and-portfolio software maker, launched Workforce Intelligence on Tuesday, an app that connects AI usage and its cost to the specific Jira ticket the work was done on. Tempo launched Workforce Intelligence, an Atlassian Marketplace app that attaches AI activity and its cost to the individual Jira work item it supported. The tool,

The Arena

Porsche signs $1.5B AI deal with Tata Consultancy

Porsche has signed a five-year, €1.25 billion ($1.46 billion) AI contract with India's Tata Consultancy Services — and has handed the IT giant one of its own businesses to seal it. Porsche will sell its in-house IT consulting unit, MHP, to TCS for €320 million, a unit that employs around 4,500 people, and the partnership takes effect once that deal closes. Chairman Michael Leiters framed it as fusing Porsche's automotive know-how with TCS's digital and AI muscle to win in "an increasingly data-

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Open Source Radar — August 25: Karpathy's playbook, open-sourced

Today's board has a single quiet fingerprint: Andrej Karpathy's recurring complaints about how coding agents misbehave have been turned into an instructions file people actually install, and his "LLM Wiki" idea now underpins a self-organizing note system. Around them sit the rest of the stack that thread depends on — a coding agent that runs in your terminal, and a router that makes free LLM inference worth stacking. Four fresh projects, none repeats from the week's earlier radars. Andrej Karpa

The Guardrails

OpenAI breaks up a Russian AI influence operation

This morning's news shows AI pulling in two directions at once: OpenAI taking down a covert influence campaign that dressed up a fake think tank in AI-generated social-media chatter, and India's largest IT firm closing a billion-dollar deal to put AI to work inside Porsche. OpenAI says it banned a cluster of accounts originating in Russia that were promoting the "International Burke Institute," a fake Israel-based think tank at the center of a covert influence operation. The operators used Chat

The Frontier

Deep Dive — Marin's 535B run puts open model training on livestream

A 535-billion-parameter model is training right now with its code, data mixture, loss curves, and even its failures posted in public as they happen. The Marin project started the run this week and wants the world to watch the experiment unfold rather than read about it in a retrospective paper three months from now. It is the starkest test yet of a question the open-weights community has never fully answered: can transparency at frontier scale be real, or is it just branding? We covered the lau

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AI 101 — What is knowledge distillation?

Knowledge distillation is a way of training a small "student" AI model to imitate a big "teacher" model — so the student picks up much of the teacher's skill while being far smaller, faster, and cheaper to run. If you have read tech news lately, you have seen this word doing heavy lifting without ever getting explained. A ByteDance founder reportedly told staff to stop using distillation even though rivals rely on it. Anthropic has previously accused several Chinese labs of using thousands of f

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Dobot doubles H1 revenue as its robot-AI orders stack up

Cobots are quietly becoming an AI business. Dobot (Yuejiang Technology, HKEX 02432) reported first-half revenue of RMB 320 million, up 106.6% year over year — and the number that matters most is a single line item: embodied-intelligence robot sales jumped more than twenty-fold to over RMB 45 million, roughly 14% of everything the company sold. The Shenzhen cobot maker's earnings read like proof that Physical AI is turning from demo reels into invoices. The company says its embodied-AI unit has

The Guardrails

Australia bans AI-made songs from its national music charts

Australia's record industry drew a hard line on generative music this week, while new research shows state-linked hackers quietly industrializing their operations with open-weight models. Two very different answers to the same question: what happens when machines can do the creative — and criminal — work end to end. Songs created mostly or entirely by AI are now barred from the ARIA charts, Australia's main music rankings, under eligibility rules that took effect this week. Releases must be "su

The Frontier

Marin opens a 535B-model training run in live public view

A Chinese lab just started what it bills as the largest fully-open large-model training run ever — and it wants the world to watch it happen in real time, not read about the results after the fact. Marin has begun training a 535-billion-parameter MoE model with its code, data mixture, and live loss curves published as it goes. Called Marin 535B-A23B, the model activates about 23 billion of its total parameters per token and is being trained on 18.75 trillion tokens across 11 NVIDIA GB200 NVL72

The Arena

Airbound raises $37M to make drone delivery as cheap as trucking

Two infrastructure stories today — one financial, one silicon: an Indian drone startup just banked $37 million to undercut trucking, and RISC-V finally got a server you can stop thinking about. Airbound, a Bengaluru startup building autonomous delivery drones, has raised $37 million in Series A funding as it chases a deceptively simple goal: making it cheaper to move goods by air than by road. Greenoaks led the round, with DoorDash, Lachy Groom, Lightspeed and Humba Ventures participating — and

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OpenAI restores Codex's 5-hour cap for Plus users

OpenAI is pulling the plug on the unlimited era for its coding agent — and the backlash started within minutes. OpenAI is bringing back the five-hour usage limit for Codex and ChatGPT Work on Plus accounts, ending weeks of effectively uncapped access that had made the $20 plan the standout deal in agentic coding. Thibault "Tibo" Sottiaux, OpenAI's engineering lead for Codex and ChatGPT, announced the change on X, with the cap taking effect from today (August 25). The five-hour window had been

The Frontier

China submitted 60% of IJCAI 2026 papers — then couldn't attend

IJCAI-ECAI 2026 closed in Bremen over the weekend with an awards slate that reads like a map of AI's past and future — and a participation report that exposed a widening gap between who produces AI research and who actually shows up. China submitted more than 4,000 papers to IJCAI-ECAI 2026 — over 60% of the entire conference — yet visa refusals kept a large share of its researchers out of the hall. Program committee chair Diego Calvanese delivered the closing numbers on August 22: Chinese regi

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