https://still-current.pages.dev/timeline Curated developments in AI, software, and developer tools, each with a note on why it matters. en-us Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:36:15 GMT https://still-current.pages.dev/timeline#open-weights-ai-sovereignty https://still-current.pages.dev/timeline#open-weights-ai-sovereignty models A coalition including NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Hugging Face, IBM, Mozilla, and others published a letter arguing that open-weight models are infrastructure for AI access, competition, cybersecurity, and institutional control—not merely cheaper substitutes for closed APIs. Why it matters: This marks open weights becoming an industrial-policy position. The argument now connects model access to who can own accumulated capability, choose infrastructure, audit systems, and participate in the AI economy. The letter is industry advocacy rather than independent evidence, and open weights do not by themselves guarantee transparency, accessibility, or safety, but the coalition signals that the closed-versus-open frontier will shape national strategy as well as product architecture. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Open weights become an AI-sovereignty platform https://still-current.pages.dev/timeline#bun-rust-rewrite https://still-current.pages.dev/timeline#bun-rust-rewrite tools Jarred Sumner published the story of rewriting Bun from Zig to Rust: a 535k-line runtime ported with Claude Code workflows, now passing the full test suite and shipping in Bun 1.4 canary. Why it matters: This is a rare public marker for AI-native software maintenance: not just generating greenfield code, but using agentic loops, adversarial review, tests, fuzzing, and compiler feedback to move a production runtime across languages. It belongs in the timeline because it shows how the unit economics of large-scale codebase change are shifting. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bun begins its Rust era