{"id":5158,"date":"2026-08-28T00:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2026-09-11T23:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:09:48","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-august-23rd-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-august-23rd-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 August 23rd, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Why Is The Mac Mini M5 Pro More Expensive Than The M6? &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2245011\/why-mac-mini-m5-pro-more-expensive-than-m6\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Qwen4\u2019s architecture is here early, firing 6B parameters out of 125B &#8211; TNW | <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/qwen38-flash-next-qwen4-architecture-open-licence-ai-act\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion &#8211; Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/08\/report-nvidia-to-acquire-ai-model-repository-hugging-face-for-13-billion\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon\u2019s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic &#8211; WIRED | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/a-judge-has-blocked-the-pentagons-attempt-to-blacklist-anthropic\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anthropic planned a $7bn takeover of chip startup MatX, then walked away &#8211; TNW | <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/anthropic-matx-7bn-acquisition-abandoned\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>NASA\u2019s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches &#8211; NASA | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasas-dark-universe-seeking-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-launches\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read Tim Cook\u2019s final message to Apple staff as CEO &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/986832\/read-tim-cooks-final-message-as-ceo-to-apple-staff\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>GoPro has been acquired and is getting into \u2018defense, government, robotics and aerospace\u2019 &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/987494\/gopro-starman-holding-merger-aquisition\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Apple Event 2026 Everything Announced: iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch 12 and More &#8211; CNET | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news-live\/apple-event-2026-live-updates\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anthropic researcher quits, says AI &#8216;could kill us all by the end of the decade&#8217; &#8211; Mashable | <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/anthropic-ai-researcher-quit-ethics-safety\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Apple announces iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone &#8211; Mashable | <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/iphone-duo-foldable-announcement-apple-event-2026\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chinese robot startup JoyIn says OpenAI copied its ideas and its website &#8211; TNW | <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/joyin-openai-copying-claim-aether-alien-mind\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Is The Mac Mini M5 Pro More Expensive Than The M6? &#8211; Engadget | Link Qwen4\u2019s architecture is here early, firing 6B parameters out of 125B &#8211; TNW | Link Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion &#8211; Ars Technica | Link A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon\u2019s Attempt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5158"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}