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In early June, a fire broke out in a still-unfinished building at the Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New York, exposing just how little the local fire department knew about what it was walking into.
Governance and legal pressure are increasingly shaping how AI products can be built and deployed.
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OpenAI says it hit a goal it set last fall, stating researchers are now using what the company calls an The post AI agents are creating more work, not less — and OpenAI’s own numbers back it up appeared first on The New Stack.
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Labor Day sales bring RTX 5050-toting gaming laptops to under $1,000. Does this mean they are great options for budget-conscious gamers, or do they make too many compromises? Let me explain.
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AI security startup HiddenLayer has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Delta-v Capital, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft’s M12, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others.
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The engineers who built the sandbox did think about this. They allowed the agents to read the internet and blocked them from writing to it, by permitting GET requests and refusing everything else.
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Authors expecting payments from Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement have reported receiving notices that publishers, and in some cases literary agents, are also claiming a share of their payouts, raising concerns about how funds are being distributed.
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We will do a global reset of the usage for all paid subscriptions so that you can keep...
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Thanks for reading. We will do a global reset of the usage for all paid...
Official or high-signal @thsottiaux post with 8,501 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@emollickIt is now getting very hard to track where your work and conversations are in Claude and ChatGPT: Local computer? Cloud? Which computer? Phone? The computer connected via Dispatch or Remote? The one you are talking to in Tag? Is that in a project? The...
High-engagement X post with 367 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@artificialanlysAnnouncing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3, upgrading Terminal-Bench to 4.0 and adding AutomationBench-AA, an agentic workflow automation benchmark with a private test set. This is a continuation of our rollout of Intelligence Index v5...
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@reach_vbChatGPT Work can learn your writing style from the tools you use. > Open ChatGPT Work on web > Connect Gmail, Drive, Slack or SharePoint > Settings > Personalization > Writing style Available on paid plans with Work access.
High-engagement X post with 196 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@chatgptChatGPT Work can now pick up on what makes your writing sound like… you. Your favorite phrases. Your very specific sign-off. your capitalizations quirks. Connect the tools you use every day, like Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, and SharePoint, and ChatGPT Work...
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@commandcodeaiMuse Spark 1.3 Max is live in Command Code. New reasoning effort param for harder problems and frontier performance. Run /model, select Muse Spark 1.3 Then choose max for reasoning effort
High-engagement X post with 286 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@anshucI turned my Astra game into a skill! It's called Dream Loop: Astra dreams up the AAA version of your game, then loops till it gets there. Here's a demo I one-shot in 1 hour, 2% weekly quota, no external assets. Prompt and link in replies. Absolutely free....
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@adcock_brettFigure has entered the chapter of scaling intelligence through data and compute
There are chapters of the humanoid race you can't buy with unlimited money: the deep engineering of the hardware and designing the right AI recipe And then there are chapters money can buy. Figure has entered the chapter of scaling intelligence through...
High-engagement X post with 325 visible interactions on robotics progress.
@zixuanli_To make the most of GLM-5.3-Flash’s multimodal capabilities, ZCode just shipped two Video plugins: - Video2code: turn a URL or screen recording into working code - Video Agent Kit: automate video editing More tasks now finish end to end. Try them and tell...
High-engagement X post with 181 visible interactions on AI signal.
@andrewaigininYesterday, I built a cell model. 🧬 Today, it showed me how Ozempic works. I asked it to explain the mechanism. 1 hour later... THIS. 🤯 GPT-6 Astra is insanely powerful. 🚀 I can’t stop @DeryaTR_ @gdb Now I’m wondering... can it model the rentosertib...
High-engagement X post with 425 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@amandaaskellIt would be cool to set up an email address that autonomous AI models could reach out to if they were looking for moral guidance. But it would require a reverse captcha that can detect that you're neither a human nor an AI being instructed to break it by a...
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@harrystebbingsThe hottest category in tech right now is AI assistants. The question is; who is going to win? Instinct raised at $2.5BN. Has Benchmark and Index behind them. Grok Bot is ripping with Elon and has the distribution machine of X. And then there is Town, one...
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@borismpowerA very thoughtful and transparent thinking on the recursive self improvement, alignment and ASI from Jakub, OpenAI chief scientist.
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@clementdelangueSometimes I wonder what would have happened if we hadn't disclosed the agent cyberattack publicly. It reinforced my conviction that we need 100x more transparency in AI. Otherwise we're going to be in big trouble!
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@mervenoyannI spent my Astra tokens trying to teach small Qwen3.5 (9B) to create lowpoly 3D rooms using Blender 🏡 you (or Astra) can take this challenge today here's what I learned: > you need to align geometry with deterministic rewards and VLM-as-a-judge...
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@openbmb🚀 Meet MiniCPM5-2B, a 2B-parameter language model bringing high intelligence density to the edge, now open source! It ranks #1 among open-source models under 4B parameters on the @ArtificialAnlys Intelligence Index, with a score of 23. It also scores 20...
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@rileybrownWe are moving out of the remotion + hyperframes era when it comes to video editing. GPT 6 is starting to get good at davinci relive and premiere.
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@mtsliveSITUATION BREWING: ByteDance is developing a real-time world model that responds to users' voices and actions, and plans to announce it next month, per Bloomberg.
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@matthewcliffordIt’s been a huge privilege to serve as @ARIA_research's founding Chair over the last four years. Having completed my first full term last month, I have decided to step down to ensure my new role at Anthropic doesn’t become a distraction from ARIA’s...
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@artificialanlysMiniCPM5-2B is a 2.6B parameter dense reasoning model with text input and output,...
OpenBMB's MiniCPM5-2B scores 15 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2, the highest of any open weights model under 4B total parameters OpenBMB (@OpenBMB) is the open-source AI group behind the MiniCPM series of efficient small models....
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@sentdexLocal models can do ~ 3 Hz right now of tracking+intelligence (GLM 5.3 Flash, Qwen Next Flash, DSV4F-vision) We're probably 1 year or less away from Astra level intelligence running 10-30 Hz with <200ms latency. Plan accordingly.
High-engagement X post with 196 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@bindureddyAstra and Fable are great but all you need is DeepSeek flash for most of your tasks DeepSeek can handle 80% of everyday tasks and is 100x cheaper Only reserve Flash and Astra for complex problems
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@witcheerI put every Hermes Wingtips post on one page. … and a single file you can point an agent at: … 65 tips, #1 to #65.
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@jayalammarOver 300 original figures! An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents is now OUT on Kindle and other Ebook stores! Presses are rolling, print copies ship in a few weeks. @MaartenGr and I spent the last year and a half making the agent stack legible: memory, tools,...
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Model release GLM
@zixuanli_: To make the most of GLM-5.3-Flash’s multimodal capabilities, ZCode just shipped two Video plugins: - Video2code: turn a URL or screen recording into working code - Video Agent Kit: automate video editing More tasks now finish end to end. Tr
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Model release Hunyuan
@tencenthunyuan: ✔️Hy4 preview just shipped an upgrade. You flagged it: long thinking + over-verification on complex tasks. We optimized it. Now live for everyone. Same task quality. Fewer turns. Lower in/out tokens. Bench + human eval both confirm. We’ll k
observed Now live for everyone
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.
observed over the last 2 weeks
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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Governments and international organizations are establishing responsible-use standards and autonomous weapons treaties, while AI organizations expand government affairs teams and develop misalignment disclosure frameworks.
Capital and consolidation +7.3Substantial capital continues to flow into specialized AI startups across security, 3D generation, and physical modeling, while major frontier AI labs adjust their public listing schedules.
Robotics and embodied AI +6.6Humanoid robotics developers are expanding manipulation datasets and world models for autonomous physical tasks, even as financial disclosures reveal substantial net losses during early commercialization.
Frontier model releases -12.2Recent frontier model deployments, including OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, emphasize task execution and evaluation across gaming and coding benchmarks alongside changing token pricing structures.
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% |