Week of Aug 10 – 2026 (day: 16)
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The map — Aug 10 – 2026 (day: 16)
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DHS contract obligations hit $20.9B in FY26 Q3, up 437% fro…
The Census Bureau's contract obligations more than doubled…
Five recipients took 68% of the VA's $18.9B in FY26 Q3 cont…
Nearly triple Q1 FY2026's $177.1M and up 11% from a year ea…
Federal shipbuilding obligations hit $11.0B in FY26 Q3 -- u…
FAA contract obligations jumped 47.5% YoY; three radio/comm…
Federal data-hosting contracts hit $1.04B in FY26 Q3 -- up…
Federal contract obligations hit $212.2B in FY26 Q2 -- up 4…
NASA obligated $3.92B in FY26 Q3, up 31.7% YoY; Caltech/JPL…
Small-business set-aside contract obligations jumped 77% qu…
Summer-2026 lab evals show the capability-control gap widen…
AI research pays off outside language benchmarks: a full ex…
AI-tagged federal contract obligations hit $121.3M across 8…
Three August 2026 drops argue the next gains come from arch…
Wildland-fire contract obligations hit $21.5M across 94 new…
Three labs shipped genuinely native multimodal models: one…
An open-weight model claimed a near-perfect math-olympiad r…
AI infrastructure's competitive front moved from training F…
Three interpretability drops map model internals: Claude's…
Between mid-July and mid-August 2026, five labs shipped new…