README: link Announcement Blogs and add AutoQuantize blog to Latest News

[realAsma]

What does this PR do?

Type of change: documentation.

• Adds an Announcement Blogs link to the centered README header after Roadmap.
• Adds the 2026/08/24 AutoQuantize announcement at the top of Latest News.

The announcements landing page intentionally points to the documentation site root: docs/source/index.rst is titled "Announcements".

Usage

N/A — documentation-only change.

Testing

• pre-commit run --files README.md .
• git diff --check

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• Did you write any new necessary tests?: N/A — documentation-only change.
• Did you update CHANGELOG.rst?: N/A — README-only documentation update.
• Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: N/A

Additional Information

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an Announcement Blogs link to the header navigation.
  • Added the August 24, 2026 AutoQuantize announcement to the Latest News section.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The README header now links to announcement blogs. The Latest News section now includes an August 24, 2026 entry for the AutoQuantize blog.

Changes

Model Optimizer README updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Announcement links and news README.md	The header includes an Announcement Blogs link. Latest News includes an August 24, 2026 AutoQuantize entry describing gradient-based mixed-precision assignment under an effective-bits budget.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 48a68

This is a localized documentation-only README update with no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining after normal checks and review.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 6

✅ Passed checks (6 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely summarizes both README changes: adding the Announcement Blogs link and adding the AutoQuantize entry to Latest News.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Security Anti-Patterns	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only README.md (+3/-1) relative to origin/main. It adds navigation and Latest News links, with no changes to modelopt or examples Python files, no dependency changes, and no intro…

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Explanation

No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Explanation

PASS: The PR changes only README.md (+3/-1) relative to origin/main. It adds navigation and Latest News links, with no changes to modelopt or examples Python files, no dependency changes, and no introduced security anti-patterns covered by this check.

✨ Finishing Touches

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• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch beebot/readme-announcement-blogs

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 79.04%. Comparing base (8810eb5) to head (48a68f9).
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