9 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

What is reinforcement learning?

OpenAI found humans preferred a 1.3B-parameter model over the 175B GPT-3 it came from, 100x fewer parameters, because of how it was trained after pretraining, not its size.

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B model beats 7x-bigger guards

Mistral released Shieldstral, a 3B Apache 2.0 model that moderates text and images as well as guard models seven times its size, and needs no retraining to learn a new policy.

Anthropic taps a startup, not a hyperscaler, for $10B in compute

Anthropic signed a six-year, $10B compute deal with AI cloud startup Volta, which is building a 133MW Nvidia data center in Norway with crypto miner Bitdeer.

Nvidia open-sources cuFile to fix AI's storage bottleneck

Nvidia open-sourced its cuFile storage APIs at FMS 2026 and lined up 40+ vendors behind a shared GPU-storage standard called Storage-Next.

Palantir's 93% quarter is a pitch against frontier AI labs

Palantir beat Q2 2026 revenue estimates by $140M and sent shares up 30%, with Karp using the print to pitch enterprises against OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Meta.

Google's $200B TPU financing undercuts Nvidia clouds

A financing web tying Google, Broadcom, Apollo and Blackstone to Anthropic's TPU buildout gives Google-backed data centers a real cost-of-capital edge over Nvidia-based rivals.

HP, Asus and Acer start shipping Chinese CXMT DRAM

PC makers move from evaluating Chinese memory to actually shipping it, as AI datacenter demand keeps DRAM tight.

OpenAI publishes emails rebutting Apple trade secret suit

OpenAI released emails and iMessages today to counter Apple's July 10 trade-secret lawsuit over its hardware unit, calling the suit 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal.'

MCP dropped session IDs to survive load balancers

MCP's July 28, 2026 spec deleted its own session concept, the biggest rewrite since Anthropic launched the protocol in November 2024, and the reason is boring in the best way: load balancers.

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