Tuesday (Mardi) August (Août) 18, 2026
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Mardi 18 Août 2026 | Tuesday, August 18, 2026Written & Curated by Zaki Qayoumi, aka “Zack”
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Bonjour à tous! Today's edition celebrates Geeks, Nerds, Otakus, and Strebers everywhere — with the latest across Technology, AI, World Affairs, Electronic Music, and Diplomacy. Thank you, as always, for reading, watching, and listening.
🇫🇷 Proud to Pursue La French Tech San Francisco
I'm actively working toward joining La French Tech San Francisco, and I'm especially excited about the La French Tech NOVA program, which supports high-potential entrepreneurs from under-represented and minority backgrounds — entrepreneurs like myself — with mentoring, investor connections, and access to the broader French Tech network. Fingers crossed!
Geeks, Nerds & Tech: Today's Top Headlines
- Sans méga-tour, le mois de juillet ramène la French Tech à un rythme plus modeste — Maddyness
- Reflex's Newly Open-Sourced XY Library Offers Faster Python Charting — DevOps.com
- Solar Power and Batteries Have Been Keeping Europe's Grid Stable — Slashdot.org
- America's meetup explosion — Axios
- Claude Corps — Anthropic
- Companies are hiring so many tech chiefs they can't decide who's in charge — Quartz
- How to rebuild your broken attention span — Vox
- The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war — TheNextWeb My take: DeepSeek is cheap, ChatGPT is expensive — American AI companies should be pushing prices down, not up.
- Eater's Guide to College Football — Eater
- Founders Are Using AI to Do the Impossible — but It's Secretly Becoming Their Biggest Nightmare — Inc.
- AI companies are buying used books by the thousands. Some may be destroyed for training — Fast Company
- I Shut My Company Down for 2 Weeks Every Year. It's Helping Fix a Broken Industry — And Proving Skeptics Wrong — Entrepreneur
- Election Officials Are Preparing for Prediction Markets to Sow Chaos in the Midterms — WIRED
- This Week in Tech 1097 — TWIT
- Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash — Google Blog
- Four ways Google Research scientists have been using Empirical Research Assistance — Google Research
- Andrea Wulf on George Forster — Lapham's Quarterly
- Astronomy readers see a wonderful Spanish eclipse — Astronomy Magazine
- The New AI Trust Architecture: 5 Requirements for Agent-to-Agent Communication — Salesforce, The 360 Blog
- Is Judgment the Ultimate AI Skill? | AI Voices, Episode 4 — SAP #SAP #IwantToWorkAtSAP #Neurodivergent #Émotif
Coffee with Zack ☕ — Mardi 18 Août 2026
What's up, everybody! It's Tuesday (Mardi) August (Août) 18, 2026. Today we celebrate Geeks, Nerds, Otakus, and Strebers.
I may have forgotten to mention this yesterday, but there will indeed be a new episode of “Coffee with Zack” in English VLOG, and of course a new episode of “Coffee with Zaki” in French VLOG, soon.
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