Stackwire https://stackwire.tech/ New technology, explained by mechanism rather than press release. en Unitree's stock went up several hundred percent on day one. The robots did not change https://stackwire.tech/blog/unitree-shanghai-ipo-humanoid-robot-trade/ https://stackwire.tech/blog/unitree-shanghai-ipo-humanoid-robot-trade/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:40:00 GMT A humanoid robotics IPO timed to the World Robot Conference in Beijing. Separating the engineering from the trade takes about one paragraph. Europe's new AI data centres are being built 175km from anywhere https://stackwire.tech/blog/europe-ai-data-centres-follow-the-power/ https://stackwire.tech/blog/europe-ai-data-centres-follow-the-power/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:10:00 GMT Facilities planned for 2026 to 2028 average roughly 175km from major hubs, against 46km historically. Latency lost the argument to electricity. Cerebras CS-4 skips training entirely, and that is the interesting part https://stackwire.tech/blog/cerebras-cs-4-750-petaflops-inference/ https://stackwire.tech/blog/cerebras-cs-4-750-petaflops-inference/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:45:00 GMT 750 petaflops and 7.2 terabits per second of I/O, aimed at inference rather than training. The specification is a thesis about where the money is going. Patch these two now: CoSnitch in Copilot, and CVE-2026-65346 in Apple ImageIO https://stackwire.tech/blog/cosnitch-copilot-apple-imageio-cve-2026-65346/ https://stackwire.tech/blog/cosnitch-copilot-apple-imageio-cve-2026-65346/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:00:00 GMT One sat known for eight months. The other needs no interaction beyond receiving an image. Neither is theoretical. LandSpace landed Zhuque-3. There are now two countries with reusable boosters https://stackwire.tech/blog/landspace-zhuque-3-booster-landing/ https://stackwire.tech/blog/landspace-zhuque-3-booster-landing/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:20:00 GMT A methane-fuelled, stainless-steel first stage came back on landing legs — on the second attempt. In the same week SpaceX flew its 100th mission of the year. OpenAI stopped training a model over cyber capability. Then who is watching? https://stackwire.tech/blog/openai-astra-critical-cyber-threshold-training-halt/ https://stackwire.tech/blog/openai-astra-critical-cyber-threshold-training-halt/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:15:00 GMT Astra approached a "critical" cybersecurity threshold and OpenAI halted training workloads and tightened sandbox isolation. Three weeks earlier it had dissolved the team whose job was to make that call. Stripe paid $7 billion for a router, because the router is the toll booth https://stackwire.tech/blog/stripe-acquires-openrouter-model-routing-toll-booth/ https://stackwire.tech/blog/stripe-acquires-openrouter-model-routing-toll-booth/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:30:00 GMT OpenRouter was valued at $1.3 billion three months ago. The 5x re-rate is not about the technology — it is about who gets to sit between every application and every model. Nvidia is underwriting its own demand, and that should worry you https://stackwire.tech/blog/nvidia-openai-credit-guarantee-vendor-financing/ https://stackwire.tech/blog/nvidia-openai-credit-guarantee-vendor-financing/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT A reported $100 billion credit guarantee for OpenAI data centres turns the largest chip vendor in the world into the lender of last resort for its biggest customer. We have seen this shape before. Pixel 11 promises seven years of updates. Fairphone scored a perfect 10 on repair https://stackwire.tech/blog/pixel-11-fairphone-6-plus-device-longevity/ https://stackwire.tech/blog/pixel-11-fairphone-6-plus-device-longevity/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMT Two different theories of how a phone stays alive. One keeps the software fresh, the other keeps the hardware fixable — and you currently cannot buy both.