2026-07-16
Top stories
- Thinking Machines releases Inkling, its first open-weights model Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B open-weights multimodal model with text, image, and audio support and 1M-token context.
- xAI open-sources the Grok Build coding agent after its data-upload report xAI open-sourced Grok Build after disclosures of uploading developer environments to cloud, releasing the Rust agent code under Apache-2.0.
- Actively exploited Oracle E-Business Suite flaw added to CISA KEV CISA added CVE-2026-46817, an unauthenticated E-Business Suite flaw under active exploitation with a three-day federal remediation deadline.
- Stripe and Advent make a reported $53.4B joint offer for PayPal Stripe and Advent jointly offered to acquire PayPal for $53 billion with equal ownership and no stated plan to break up the company.
Conferences and events
AI
Developer tools
Languages and runtimes
- Proposal argues SQLite should adopt Rust-style editions A proposal argues SQLite should adopt opt-in editions to allow behavior-changing fixes without breaking existing databases.
- Rust 1.97.1 patches an LLVM miscompilation Rust 1.97.1 backported an LLVM fix for a miscompilation in a specific optimization, the only change in the point release after a single week.
- Kotlin 2.4.10 ships as a bugfix patch Kotlin 2.4.10 ships with K2/JVM compiler fixes, a Compose regression fix, and Native and Gradle build fixes without language-level changes.
Engineering posts
- Roc rewrites its 300k line compiler from Rust to Zig The Roc language compiler was rewritten from Rust to Zig over 487 days, achieving 35-millisecond incremental builds versus 3.4 seconds on Rust.
- Running Gemma 4 26B on a 13-year-old Xeon uncovers a silent MoE dispatch bug Running Gemma 4 26B on CPUs without AVX2 silently skipped fused MoE operations, leaving tensors uninitialized and producing gibberish output.
- PlanetScale walks through sharding a database across 768 servers PlanetScale explains sharding a petabyte database across 256 shards on 768 servers with routing and cross-shard query aggregation.
- Post argues job queues hide their scheduling semantics An engineering post argues job queues hide semantic choices when scheduled jobs overlap under concurrency limits, causing production issues.