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Anthropic Gave Agents a Standard for Lab Hardware. The Manifest Came Back.
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Anthropic Gave Agents a Standard for Lab Hardware. The Manifest Came Back.

Anthropic opened the research preview of the Model Hardware Standard on 27 August, letting agents drive microscopes, liquid handlers and the lasers inside a quantum computer. The MHS driver auto-generates a per-device file listing capabilities and safety limits, enforced at the device rather than requested of the model. That is a static, inspectable manifest, the exact artifact that has been dissolving on the software side of the agent stack all year.
The Memory War: AI Is Eating Every Chip on Earth
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The Memory War: AI Is Eating Every Chip on Earth

Data centers will consume 70% of the world's memory chips in 2026. DRAM prices surged 80-90% in a quarter. The AI boom has a hidden tax, and consumers are paying it.
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