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📌 Daily Recap · Aug 27

🚀 SpaceX's $100B Louisiana Starbase is alarmingly ambitious
🎮 Witcher 3 Remastered drops September 29, free for owners
🧙 CDPR gave Witcher 3 a full combat and skill overhaul
🖥️ Apple finally fixed its confusing Mac Studio chip situation
🤖 Halving an AI's size somehow made it smarter

Tag whoever spent today in meetings — they clearly needed this more than a fourth coffee

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🤖 They shrunk an AI model in half and it got smarter

Multiverse Computing took OpenAI's GPT-OSS — 120 billion parameters — cut it to 60 billion, compressed memory to 4-bit, and the smaller version _outperformed_ the original on 7 of 9 benchmarks.

The trick: normally you teach the shrunken model using a halfway copy, which is already worse than the original. Their method, Quantization-Aware Healing, just points the small model at the full uncompressed original instead. That swap apparently makes all the difference.

The result uses a quarter of the memory — gap between a data center and a decent desktop. The model, Hypernova-60B, is free on Hugging Face, though the compression tool itself stays proprietary. Decrypt has more.

🖥️ Apple's most powerful chip ever — in the same box as 2022

Quick context: last year's Mac Studio was a genuine mess — M4 Max on one end, M3 Ultra on the other, with the older-sounding M3 actually being more powerful. An M4 Ultra never existed. That's fixed now.

The new lineup:
🔸 M5 Max — 36GB memory, from $2,499
🔸 M5 Ultra — 96GB memory, 80-core GPU, 1.2TB/s bandwidth, from $5,499
🔸 512GB memory config — October, pricing TBD
🔸 Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, storage twice as fast

Ships September 22nd on macOS 27 Golden Gate. With the Mac Pro gone, the M5 Ultra is now Apple's absolute ceiling — according to The Verge. Same chassis since 2022. USB-A ports still on the back. Apparently "most powerful chip ever" and "we kept the old box" aren't mutually exclusive.

🎮 CD Projekt Red just wouldn't sit still

At Gamescom Opening Night Live, CDPR announced a remaster of The Witcher 3 — out September 29, free for existing owners. Switch players get a free Switch 2 upgrade too.

It's not just visuals: reworked skill tree, combat, camera, new finishers, smoother movement. On top of that, a new DLC called Songs of the Past is coming for a game that's already over a decade old, and a remake of the first Witcher is also in the works. The next real sequel is 2028 at the earliest, so the studio is keeping fans occupied in the meantime, as The Verge reports.

Plenty going on over there right now.

Engadget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB3siHVCHpY

🎮 The Witcher 3 Remastered arrives September 29 — free for existing owners

CD Projekt Red confirmed at Gamescom Opening Night Live that The Witcher 3 Remastered launches September 29 at no cost for owners on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

The update brings reworked combat, a skill tree overhaul, armor transmog, cross-platform mod support and a full visual upgrade — ray-traced hair included. Both existing expansions are now bundled at no extra charge.

Switch 1 owners get the Switch 2-native version free. The game also hits Battle.net for the first time. Third expansion Songs of the Past is due in 2027; The Witcher 4, starring Ciri, targets 2028, per IGN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB3siHVCHpY

🚀 SpaceX is planning a second Starbase — bigger than the first

$100 billion is the stated investment in Starbase Louisiana: Starship factories, launch pads, methane production and a deep-water port. SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell presented the project in person in Abbeville, Louisiana.

The Texas Starbase covers just 350 acres and borders a public beach. Florida means sharing launch windows with five competing operators. Louisiana offers open land, methane access and ocean shipping — with no queue.

SpaceX's roadmap calls for dozens of Starship launches per day. Current infrastructure won't get there. The $100 billion is an intention, not a contract yet, per Ars Technica — but the scope is being designed for a cadence that doesn't exist yet.

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