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GitHub CEO Exits, Claude 1M Tokens, Gemma 3 & GPT-5 Tweaks
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Discussed news articles
- GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation — The Verge (Aug 11, 2025)
Thomas Dohmke steps down; GitHub leadership folds more tightly into Microsoft’s CoreAI org.
https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition - FFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI Whisper filter for automatic speech recognition — Phoronix (Aug 13, 2025)
Native Whisper (via whisper.cpp) arrives in FFmpeg with optional GPU accel and SRT/JSON outputs.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Lands-Whisper - Wikimedia Foundation challenges UK Online Safety Act regulations — Wikimedia Foundation (Aug 11, 2025)
Court dismisses the challenge, but the ruling still pressures Ofcom; concerns remain for Wikipedia.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08/11/wikimedia-foundation-challenges-uk-online-safety-act-regulations/ - Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context — Anthropic (Aug 12, 2025)
Long-context support (public beta) enables huge codebases/docs in one go on API and Bedrock.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/1m-context - Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI — Google Developers Blog (Aug 14, 2025)
On-device-friendly model aimed at fast, low-cost fine-tuning; strong efficiency on Pixel 9 Pro.
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3-270m/ - Genie 3: A new frontier for world models — Google DeepMind (Aug 5, 2025)
Interactive, real-time world models generating diverse environments at 24fps/720p.
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/ - NGINX introduces native support for ACME protocol — NGINX Community Blog (Aug 12, 2025)
New ngx_http_acme_module brings built-in cert requests/renewals directly from NGINX config.
https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol - OpenAI tweaks GPT-5’s tone on X — X (Aug 15, 2025)
Tuning GPT-5/ChatGPT to sound warmer and less formal based on user feedback.
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1956461718097494196
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