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GitHub's CTO says a client-side retry loop in Copilot increased traffic during recovery from the August 17 outage, which ran 7 hours 47 minutes after a Central US data center component failed to scale with peak throughput. GitHub is now adding retry budgets across service-to-service calls. Your agent fleet has none.
August 22, 2026 · 15 min read
AMD signed a definitive agreement on August 6 to buy Taalas, whose chips etch model weights into mask ROM so one chip serves exactly one model. The business model assumes a one-year hardware life, which makes the cheapest inference tier available only to workloads whose model you can name and freeze.
August 8, 2026 · 13 min read