• DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek Harness in Developer Preview: An MIT-Licensed Agent Harness Where Everything is a Plugin

    August 17, 2026

    DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.1 in developer preview and published the full source code under the MIT license. The project ships as dsh at deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness. A harness is the layer between a model and the environment it acts in — the tools, files, sandboxes, and control loop that let an agent keep working. DeepSeek frames it as Agent = Model + Harness. Most harnesses hard-code that layer: the agent loop, the tool registry, and the session store are fixed, and extension happens only at whatever hooks the authors exposed. Harness takes the opposite position, stated in the first lines of…

  • 2026 GWM Tank 500 prices: Prado, Everest rival finally gets diesel power with new 3.0L

    August 17, 2026

    The GWM Tank 500 is now finally available in Australia with diesel power, and it’s the brand’s new 3.0-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder. It’s priced at $65,990 drive-away in base Lux trim and $71,990 drive-away in flagship Vanta form. GWM Australia is also offering a choice of either a $2000 discount (“cash bonus”) or $2000 fuel card for vehicles purchased before October 30, 2026. For context, the Tank 500 Lux undercuts the most affordable turbo-diesel V6-powered Ford Everest by $1000, while the Vanta is $5000 cheaper than the mid-spec Everest Sport V6. Even the cheapest Toyota Prado is priced at $73,200 before…

  • Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes

    August 13, 2026

    Anthropic recently made the decision to watermark Claude’s outputs — inserting invisible code into the chatbot’s editorial text that marks it as AI-generated. Anthropic rolled out this new policy to satisfy the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which now requires tech companies to label content that has been AI-generated or edited in a manner identifiable to computer systems. Yet while European regulators may be happy, some AI users are decidedly not. One need look no further than Reddit to find evidence of brewing discontent, though other posters on the site are not in agreement. One of the more histrionic posts…

  • 2026 Toyota GR86, Subaru BRZ gain tech and chassis upgrades

    August 13, 2026

    The Toyota GR86 and Subaru BRZ sports cars have been upgraded with new technology, equipment and cosmetic changes, and the updated Toyota coupe is due to arrive in Australian showrooms later this month with unchanged prices. The GR86 changes have been announced for Japan, where orders for the updated coupe open later this month. Toyota Australia has confirmed the upgraded model will also be available here from later this month, issuing this brief statement: “Toyota Australia is pleased to confirm a raft of enhancements for the GR86, including the introduction of a distinctive Moon Slate Grey paint colour, further chassis…

  • You Can Now Watch Classic Movies Like The Martian, E.T. And Zodiac On Apple TV

    August 13, 2026

    Apple TV is known for its original series like Ted Lasso, Silo and Severance, but it’s now offering new content it doesn’t often feature: classic films. The streaming service just made around 20 popular movies available for subscribers to stream, including The Martian, E.T., The Proposal, The Sixth Sense, Titanic and Zodiac, 9to5Mac reported.  You can usually only buy or rent these movies from the Apple TV Store, but they’re all now tagged as “Just Added,” so they can be streamed for free with an Apple TV subscription, which costs $12.99 per month or $99 a year.  If you want…

  • Someone Fine-Tuned OpenBMB’s MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 Traces to Ship a 657MB Local Thinking Model

    July 20, 2026

    A community developer, GnLOLot, has published a 1B model that runs fully on local hardware. The model is MiniCPM5-1B-Claude-Opus-Fable5-Thinking, with GGUF builds for llama.cpp-compatible runtimes. It needs no API key and makes no cloud calls. The Proposed Model The model is built on openbmb/MiniCPM5-1B. That base is a real, documented release from OpenBMB. It is a dense 1.08B-parameter model using a standard LlamaForCausalLM architecture. It has 24 layers, grouped-query attention, and a 131,072-token context length. OpenBMB reports 1B-class open-source SOTA within its own comparison set. The base already ships a native thinking template. Reasoning is toggled through enable_thinking, giving both…

  • Denza Z9 S electric sedan revealed as smaller sibling to Australia-bound Z9 GT

    July 20, 2026

    The exterior of the electric Denza Z9 S sedan has been revealed in China with a similar styling and powertrains to the Z9 GT, which is due in Australian showrooms later this year with ‘flash’ ultra-fast charging. According to Car News China, the Z9 S follows the same design language as the Z9 GT, courtesy of former Audi designer Wolfgang Egger who heads design for Denza and parent company BYD, but wraps it in a smaller body riding the same e3 platform. Denza Australia told CarExpert it considers all models for local showrooms but stopped short of confirming whether the…

  • Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name

    July 12, 2026

    Reed Jobs is easy to like. He’s motormouthed, self-deprecating, prone to video-game analogies, and clearly loves his work. He doesn’t particularly want to discuss the fact that he is Steve Jobs’s son, but he’s not uptight about it, either. When our producer, Maggie, asked if he was on a MacBook for our video call Thursday morning, he didn’t miss a beat: “Are you kidding?” What he’d much rather talk about is Yosemite, the oncology-focused venture firm he launched in 2023 to, in part, build biotech companies from scratch, out of early academic research, using a mix of philanthropy and outside…

  • Expert Insights: Q&A with Honda Australia director Robert Thorp

    July 12, 2026

    Honda Australia has a spring in its step after the launch of the born-again Prelude sports car and updates for its best-seller, the CR-V mid-size SUV, including an expanded hybrid lineup. Yet while rival brands are posting record sales, Honda’s growth has remained modest. The company has also had to scale back its electric vehicle (EV) ambitions after the Japanese automaker axed most of its futuristic-looking 0 Series models shortly before their planned release. At the same time, the introduction of Australia’s New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) and record fuel prices have made market conditions even more challenging. Even so,…

  • Phoebe Gates’ AI Shopping App Phia Reportedly Claimed Unearned Affiliate Sales Through Fake Clicks

    July 12, 2026

    Gates, who is Bill Gates’ daughter, founded the app alongside Sophia Kianni. Kimberly White/Getty Images According to multiple reports, the AI-powered shopping plugin Phia used a tactic known as cookie stuffing to attach its affiliate code to sales it didn’t actually drive. Phia, which launched last spring, was co-founded by Phoebe Gates — Bill Gates’ daughter — and Sophia Kianni. Investigations by researcher Ben Edelman, Bloomberg and Capital One Shopping all reportedly found instances of the browser extension claiming referrals through fake clicks, and even taking credit for sales that other publishers should have gotten the commission for.…