AMD and the HandBrake developers have fixed a major performance issue that affected high-core-count CPUs. HandBrake was not handling systems with more than 64 threads efficiently, leaving many CPU cores underused. In some cases, this caused performance to drop by as much as 60%. The issue has been fixed in HandBrake 1.11.0, bringing huge performance gains. According to AMD, encoding performance can improve by up to 181% on the 96-core Threadripper PRO 9995WX and up to 215% on the 64-core Threadripper 7980X.

OpenAI is keeping its IPO on hold as Altman argues the company needs room to put AI safety ahead of shareholder interests (double slow-down?) He told Fortune that OpenAI will not go public in 2026 and has discussed pauses at new capability levels to allow more progress on safety and alignment. Via Fortune I wonder what this means for data center expansion and investments for 2027 if the handbrake is being applied everywhere.

Handshake's ATLAS-Finance is an interesting new benchmark which the best models only get to 12% on. Tests models on expert-level tasks inside realistic investment banking environments with inboxes, drives, notebooks, calendars, and emails