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Samsung’s S26 FE is first in the family onto One UI 9

Newsroom pages on 27 August put Galaxy S26 FE on Android 17 and One UI 9, on sale from 4 September in Blueberry, Graphite, and Pistachio. 17 cm FHD+, 193 g, Exynos 2500, 4,900 mAh. No price on the pages.

Z.ai and Qwen ship the same hybrid-attention graph

26 August. GLM-5.3-Flash is 320B total, 18B active, MIT. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is 125B with 6B active. Both land on a 3:1 linear-to-sparse stack.

IBM cuts the LLM out of Granite Speech and ships 470 million parameters

Same day as Granite 4.2. Two English ASR models, no language-model backbone. IBM's H200 number is 12,600 RTFx.

IBM ships Granite 4.2 as three dense Apache reasoners

25 August. 3B, 8B, and 30B, trained from scratch on about 15 trillion tokens. A thinking switch. Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face, Ollama, and GitHub.

Nvidia's Spark keeps 128 GB of model in a 150 mm box

GB10 Grace Blackwell, 1 petaflop of FP4, 273 GB/s of unified memory. Launch price US$3,999. Founders Edition is US$4,699 since February.