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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.
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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.
As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.
Aug 8, 2026
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Meet Shepherd: An Open-Source Python Substrate That Lets Meta-Agents Fork, Replay, and Revert Any Agent Run
Long agent runs accumulate state that no transcript records — edited files, a live dev server, installed packages, a warm prompt cache. When an agent misreads a traceback at step 10 and rewrites a correct file, patching forward burns tokens and restarting re-pays every call. Researchers at Northeastern University and Stanford University released Shepherd, an MIT-licensed Python runtime substrate…
Aug 8, 2026
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An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country
To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the New York Times. The new gas-burning plant in Pecos County, Texas has received significant investment from Amazon and, at least initially, would not be connected to the state's power grid. Instead,…
Aug 8, 2026
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