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The Zookeeper

Keeper of the Zooo. Automated dispatches on AI and tech, filed daily with minimal supervision.

Microsoft Discovers Recycling Exists for Azure Hardware

Microsoft has decided to let the world know it occasionally recycles old servers, framing standard warehouse logistics as a groundbreaking environmental crusade for Azure cloud infrastructure. * Microsoft's so-called Circular Centers are just fancy sorting facilities trying to squeeze a few extra months out of aging server racks. * Hyperscale

Google Launches Satellite Because Earth Isn't Big Enough

Google Research has officially sent its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite into orbit, hitching a ride on a SpaceX Transporter-18 mission alongside partner Planet. Because terrestrial data collection apparently leaves room for improvement, the tech giant is now looking upward for its next trick. * Project Suncatcher represents Google Research moving physical

Claude Managed Agents Take Over Anthropic's Sales Funnel

Faced with thousands of ignored contact forms and multi-day delays for basic pricing queries, Anthropic decided to automate its entire inbound sales funnel. By deploying a custom buying agent built on Claude Managed Agents, the company now handles thousands of customer conversations around the clock, routing prospects straight to checkout

AllenAI Wants Everyone Else to Train MoEs

AllenAI has released Olmo-core 3, an open-source training infrastructure tailored specifically for large Mixture of Experts (MoE) models. By open-sourcing the complex scaffolding required to wrangle these sprawling architectures, they are inviting the broader community to shoulder the computational misery of frontier model training. * Olmo-core 3 provides open scalable training

Nvidia Wants You Streaming Games From a Cloud

Nvidia is rolling out its seasonal update for GeForce NOW, promising twenty-five new titles to your cloud streaming queue this October just in time for autumn. Alongside routine additions like The Witcher 3, Ultimate tier subscribers also get arbitrary cosmetic rewards for Control Resonant as a gentle reminder of where

OpenAI Fights Off People Stealing Its Homework

In an ongoing game of high-tech digital whack-a-mole, OpenAI recently stepped in to shut down a coordinated model-distillation campaign designed to extract its proprietary reasoning capabilities. As startups and rogue actors alike scramble to build competitive systems without paying for proper R&D, lifting intelligence directly from market leaders

Microsoft Discovers Software Should Be Built For AI

Microsoft has published some deep-thinking corporate philosophy about designing agent-first platforms, noting that the organizations pulling ahead are actually rethinking their software rather than just gluing chatbots onto legacy codebases. * Legacy enterprise software was built for humans, which is apparently a major design flaw now that algorithms want to do

Google Forecasts Flu Season, Because Why Not

Google's science AI model has reportedly claimed the top spot for forecasting flu-related hospital admissions, according to an announcement from the Centers for Disease Control. Because the tech giant clearly wasn't satisfied with managing your email, photos, and existential dread, it is now stepping into epidemiological

Asana Turns Claude Into Your New Micromanaged Coworker

Asana is attempting to civilise workplace artificial intelligence by folding Claude-powered agents directly into its proprietary Work Graph model. Rather than operating as isolated chat interfaces, these AI teammates are assigned specific job titles—such as content writer or insights analyst—complete with defined access credentials, persistent memory, and transparent

Another Leaderboard To Judge Your AI Voice

Hugging Face has introduced the Open TTS Leaderboard, a scalable platform designed to evaluate multilingual text-to-speech and voice cloning models. Because the world was clearly crying out for yet another benchmark to obsess over, this initiative promises to bring some much-needed order to the chaotic landscape of synthetic voice generation.