Papers, benchmarks, and technical breakthroughs with real downstream impact.
Insider Brief The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has received $2 million from the National Science Foundation to lead a four-year project developing AI-enabled tools aimed at identifying environmental threats to food production systems before they become larger problems.
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A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox.
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Huawei Technologies has released a new research paper showing its Tau Scaling Law-based semiconductor architecture can avoid overheating, which analysts view as a key technical hurdle for its anticipated Kirin 2026 smartphone chip.
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Published on September 6, 2026 4:30 PM GMT Compassion Aligned Machine Learning (CaML) is conducting research and deploying benchmarks with the aim of implementing broad compassion for all sentient beings into AI systems.
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Why you should arbitrage your AI models like your vendors do Larry Dignan Sun, 6 Sep 2026 - 03:00 Larry Dignan Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights Constellation Research Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights at Constellation Research, where he leads editorial coverage focused on enterprise...
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Published on September 6, 2026 1:32 PM GMT I've read about GiveDirectly's ML targeting ( Bangladesh results ) and GiveWell's AI red-teaming and lit reviews. What about other charities? Is AI actually saving significant admin/research/ops time anywhere, or is it mostly shallow adoption? Discuss
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Windows build 7868 can rank up to 100 Work and Codex chats by five-hour, weekly and credit use, with a new system designed to include subagent activity under the parent task.
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Tokyo Electron's Taiwan president said AI is pushing semiconductor demand into new areas, with advanced packaging, DRAM, high-bandwidth memory, and NAND flash all gaining momentum. He said Taiwan remains central to the industry's supply chain, and TEL plans to deepen local technology, service, and research ties.
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If Astra needs 1.2T active params, OpenAI is inept and AGI is a psyop, because all these models can't even help you implement basic research papers. We're all dying of cancer. It's over. I'd say <350B active, >150T tokens, and >50% of the compute spend was...
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@gdbAn important essay on the state of AI and the choices and challenges ahead: for OpenAI, the field, and the world. we're in the AGI era, and need to approach the next few years with seriousness, thoughtful deliberation, and navigating the collective...
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@forloopcodesIf you didn't know, this is what a 10$ opencode go plan gives you THIS IS BASICALLY INFINITE
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@forloopcodesGPT 6 Astra is estimated to have ~1.2T Active Parameters and ~10T Total Parameters. Reports indicate pre-training for GPT-5.5 (codename Spud) concluded on March 24 at the Abilene campus. Astra's pretraining run (Doug) would have taken over that cluster...
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@theojaffeeHopefully the fact that OpenAI is spending $220k - $2.5M+ per year *per researcher* on frontier tokens (and this has inflected upwards in recent months) should kill any remaining cope that businesses will "just use cheaper Chinese open source models"
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@trapitbansalFun fact: RLSlow was named after Thinking, Fast and Slow. The idea was that language models already had a kind of "fast" thinking, producing an answer immediately, and that we could use RL to teach them "slow" thinking: deliberate, multi-token reasoning...
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@pvncherI see takes like oh, I don’t like Astra because when I say X I want it to do Y You can ask Astra to put a line in your agents.md file and it will just do what you want it to. People don’t understand how personalizable this model is
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@bindureddyAmazing! Fable 5.2 launches shortly Followed by Gemini 4.0 and hopefully Bel from OpenAI The party doesn’t stop 💃
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@emollickIt is less than a decade since the development of the transformer. Less than four years since the release of GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT). Less than two years since the release of o1-preview (the first Reasoner).
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@iscienceluvrOne of my favorite features of Codex/ChatGPT is not even documented in the main docs, I discovered it on Reddit. So basically we have a GPU slurm cluster that we SSH into, and I wanted to be able to run Codex on it from my phone. ChatGPT Desktop supports...
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@xenovacomSimulating a fruit fly's neural network using custom WebGPU kernels, running locally in a browser. The demo uses real connectivity data for 166,700 neurons from the MaleCNS connectome. Paint neurons and watch their activity drive the fly's movements. Built...
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@therohanvarmaIn asked GPT-6 Astra in Codex to build RuneScape and deploy it to a ChatGPT Site. You can check out the game here (it is multiplayer, so I'll see you in there!): The most impressive part may be that the demo video below is an Astra one-shot. My prompt: "I...
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@ivanfioravantiReady! Is there a brave Apple Silicon user with a 64GB machine willing to test DwarfStar with Qwen 3.8 Flash Next? In the video it runs at 65 t/s on M3 Ultra. 🚀 I uploaded Q2 weights here: PR branch is here:
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@yanndubsWe made a big push on decreasing hallucination & making Astra much more trustworthy! (Nit: to interpret those benchmarks you really need to control for the amount of claims the model make, which neither of those plots show.)
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@kennethcasselTold Codex to design me a welded chair made of tubes and sheet metal from RMFG it designed this step file, annotated all the welds, checked the DFM rules throughout the process, uploaded the design and got a quote, all from the CLI. sent me a link to view...
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@gdbWe're now moving into the AGI era (whether you view it as this model, the last one, or the next one), and could not do it without close partners
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@thsottiauxWe’ve made some improvements that improve usage on the long tail for power users of Astra when logged in with your ChatGPT account. No change in quality and a pure win that on the long tail can result in up to 3-4X less usage being drawn from the subscription.
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@lateinteractionI have to say I would have been reasonably impressed by GPT-6 Astra if it was released as "GPT-6 Sol", with pricing/size calibrated accordingly but I'm struggling to imagine how GPT-6 Sol could be noticeably weaker than this AND still be better than...
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@__tinygrad__Run `python3 -m tinygrad.llm --model qwen3.8:27b --serve --max_context 65536` on your 7900XTX and visit localhost:8000. Added markdown parser, also OpenAI API compatible with pi and opencode.
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@jensenhuangGPT-6 Astra, trained on ~100K+ NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72. From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years. AGI has arrived. Congratulations @OpenAI team. 400K GPUs coming online next.
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@thsottiauxTo calibrate you all on which reasoning effort to use for Astra, know that GPT-6 Astra on low performs better than GPT-5.6 Sol on high. If you were using high reasoning efforts with Sol and were happy, I suggest you move down to low or medium for Astra.
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@prathkumEvery single launch follows the same pattern: when Anthropic ships a new model, it beats all of...
I have a genuine question. Anthropic has probably been working on Fable 5.1 for a very long time. OpenAI has probably been working on GPT-6 Astra for just as long. These labs are almost certainly building in parallel, not reacting to each other in real...
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@reach_vbAstra/ LLM tip: prompt “make sure each word in this text justifies its existence.” works like a charm, s/o to @charlierguo for introducing me to it
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@alexandr_wangNice comparison of muse spark 1.3 max and GPT-6 astra
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Dev tool Hermes Agent
Teknium reported token efficiency improvements in Hermes over the prior two weeks and invited users to test Codex subscriptions in Hermes Agent.
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Pricing DeepSeek
Ollama says DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Pro token rates will be half price outside 12:00–18:00 UTC on weekdays and all day on weekends; broader model coverage is planned but not yet available.
observed Recurring off-peak schedule: outside 12:00–18:00 UTC on weekdays and all day on weekends
Quota reset GLM Coding Plan
@louszbd: We increased GLM-5.3-Flash usage for all coding plan users to unlock more workloads in ZCode, with unlimited usage from 8 AM to 6 PM PT. And we heard your feedback about usage limits in coding agents like Hermes and OpenClaw, so we doubled
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Dev tool Claude Code
The post reports that switching effort settings on Fable 5.1 no longer breaks prompt caching in Claude Code, while quoting a separate personal comparison of model effort levels.
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Dev tool Claude Code
The post claims switching effort settings for Fable 5.1 no longer breaks prompt cache, while quoting a separate capability comparison. No implementation or official changelog is supplied.
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Quota reset ChatGPT
@thsottiaux: Because we are beyond happy to have Astra rolled out today ahead of schedule: we will do the full banked reset today too for all Plus, Pro and Business users. Lands end of day. Happy Astra day. PS: If you create the account or upgrade before 8pm PT you will get it
observed applies today
Organizations expanding gigawatt-scale data center capacity are confronting electrical power constraints, specialized cooling demands, and memory supply shortages across international facilities.
Robotics and embodied AI +5.3Hardware developers are introducing humanoid platforms, autonomous inspection drones, and assistive robots targeted at commercial facilities, emergency response, and elder care.
Frontier model releases -14.8Frontier model deployments and technical evaluations show expanded capabilities across multimodal tooling, complex reasoning proofs, and specialized cybersecurity benchmarking.
AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Advanced Micro Devices +4.69%, Super Micro Computer +4.54%, Palantir Technologies. -4.49% leading the tracked basket.
| Ticker | Company | Move |
|---|---|---|
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | +4.69% |
| SMCI | Super Micro Computer | +4.54% |
| PLTR | Palantir Technologies. | -4.49% |
| ARM | Arm Holdings plc | +3.92% |