Sydney:
‘Where illegal ebikes go to die’: first bikes seized under new laws in NSW crushed | Ebikes | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/01/this-is-where-ebikes-go-to-die-first-…
from my link log —
Why Casper forked Rust’s rand crate.
https://casualhacks.net/blog/2026-07-27-why-i-forked-rand.html
saved 2026-07-31
Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash (Microsoft AI)
https://microsoft.ai/news/our-first-streaming-transcription-model/
Practice Points: Observations from first practice https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/practice-points-observations-from-first-practice-practice-points
2026 NFL rookie grades: How Fernando Mendoza, Ty Simpson and every first-round pick performed in preseason
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-rookie-grades-first-round-pi…
Hong Kong-listed Z.ai reports H1 2026 revenue up 5x YoY to ~$142M, with "open platform and API revenue" up 28x to ~$122M, and net loss down 12% YoY to ~$308M (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chines…
Tavus unveils Griffin, the "first Human Interaction Model", which it says passed the "video Turing test", with 48% of users thinking it was human in live chats (@tavus)
https://x.com/tavus/status/2105704169009246248
OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra "soon" but will make its advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-astra-first-ai-model-with-critical-cyber-abilities/…
Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation (Garrison Lovely/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/02/2026/how-emplo…