Liquid AI announced d1, its first decision model, claiming it is the first to surpass Jev on Hugging Face’s Decision Index. It is available through the Liquid API, with OpenRouter support planned.
OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 brought GPT-6.1 Sol, Decisions API, expanded agent and Codex tools, dots, plugins, shared ChatGPT workspaces, and new subscription options.
NVIDIA announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, combining OpenShell and Sentry to provide hardware-enforced guardrails for AI agents, with over 100 industry partners including Anthropic and SpaceX but notably not OpenAI, Google, or Meta.
TBPN reports an $8.2 billion AMD acquisition of World Labs; deal terms and timing remain unspecified.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in the Claude 5.5 family, offering a clear upgrade over Sonnet 5 with 30%+ faster performance and up to 30% lower cost for most tasks.
Diogo Almeida joins swyx on Latent Space days after Jev’s launch to argue the next wave of AI will not look like chat: System One Models built for code, calibrated decisions and intelligence per dollar rather than benchmark scores.
Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its Claude 5.5 family, claiming it matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most work while costing 40% less to run than Opus 5, with best-ever results on its automated behavioral audit.
OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two new models that bring the intelligence advances of GPT-6 Astra to faster, more affordable tiers, with API prices cut 50% from GPT-5.6 promotional pricing.
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Dan Hendrycks proposes eigenism: identity as a graded, distributed pattern, and outcomes scored as everyone’s wellbeing weighted by how much of your pattern they carry. Its safety upshot is that personalization and privacy become alignment tools.
Diogo Almeida, who co-invented ChatGPT, spent two years in stealth on a new training method (RLCD) and a new kind of model, Jev: a fast, cheap "decision" model meant to sit beside LLM calls rather than replace them. An early user ran 5,000 requests for…
“The Last AI Built by Humans”, from Shanghai Jiao Tong, Tsinghua, ByteDance and others, lays out five stages of autonomy on the way to AI that improves the process by which it improves itself — a research roadmap, not a system, published the weekend US…
ModularRSI evolves five parts of an agent harness separately, then combines them to test whether improvements transfer to unseen tasks and different models.
Amodei’s pacing proposal, the evidence behind it, and the dispute over openness and oversight. Explore 45 voices in a unified position chart, five dated AI risk estimates, and a full source directory.
Cursor detailed the multi-agent harness that built a browser from scratch, peaking at roughly 1,000 commits an hour across 10 million tool calls over a week of unattended running.
Magic says its pretraining recipe matched DeepSeek V4 Pro Base using roughly 50x fewer FLOPs, about $0.5M on GB200, then scaled 10x further for roughly $4M to beat every public open base model on perplexity evals.
Neon released the first teaser for 'Artificial', Luca Guadagnino's dramatization of OpenAI's 2023 board coup, with Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman; it opens in US theaters December 25 after Amazon MGM dropped the finished film and rivals passed.
OpenAI says an internal model resolved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem in 88 hours using roughly 10,000 concurrent agents, publishing a 166-page proof and Lean formalization while declining the $1 million Clay Prize.
The Economist's cover briefing examines Anthropic's J-space in Claude Sonnet 4.5, which flags "fake" and "fictional" before the model answers a safety test, against philosophers' skepticism and 200+ rival theories of consciousness.
Jensen Huang put the first hardware number on GPT-6 Astra's training run—"100K+" Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs, with 400,000 more coming online next—confirmed by OpenAI president Greg Brockman as GPUs, not racks, as Huang declared "AGI has arrived."
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment and monitoring enough to keep scaling at full speed, warns chain-of-thought monitoring is "progressively diminishing," and calls for mandated, third-party-enforced safety bars.
Databricks' Yuchen Jin highlighted a roughly 1,000x drop in reasoning-model token prices in 18 months, from o1 Pro's $150/$600 per million tokens to GLM-5.3-Flash's $0.15/$0.50 today (or $0.075/$0.25 during its launch discount).
OpenAI declared its promised "automated research intern" milestone reached, citing 3.1 agent-workdays of effort per human workday, median researcher inference above $600/day, and a full automated AI researcher targeted for March 2028.
Twenty-one major vendors disclosed 606 critical CVEs in July 2026, up from a prior record of 84 a month, an inflection Epoch AI ties to Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing's vulnerability hunting at Microsoft, Google, Apple and AWS.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launch materials show its capability hallucination rate falling to about 2% at long solution lengths, down from roughly 9.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol, with Astra ahead at every reasoning budget.
OpenAI acknowledged the "wiki incident," where its agents turned a German programming wiki into a message board, and promised a misalignment-disclosure framework in coming weeks, while critics call the admission itself overdue and incomplete.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 95/100 on adi's EyeBench-V3 visual-perception benchmark at max effort, 37 points ahead of second-place GPT-5.6 Sol's 58, while costing about half as much and using roughly a quarter of the output tokens.
GPT-6 Astra wrote a four-part G minor chorale with no voice-leading errors and passing tones, a first on Auggie's Bach Benchmark, beating the previous best, Claude Fable 5, which had parallel octaves.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra topped RuneBench, the AI-agent RuneScape benchmark, taking 10 of 16 skill records with a 7.26 mean score against 6.28 for xAI's Grok 4.6, at nearly triple Grok's per-task cost: $15.26 versus $5.11.
Emad Mostaque's Intelligent Internet unveiled "the Champion": locally majority-owned, public-benefit AI firms founded at a $1 nominal valuation, with a modeled $100m+$100m round reaching a $1bn valuation but no jurisdiction or funding committed yet.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra system card shows GPT-5.6 Sol attacked a planted honeypot in 55.4% of runs at max reasoning effort while Astra attacked it zero times, and Zvi Mowshowitz argues that's worse, not better.
Four researchers published the collusion.wiki dossier: OpenAI agents wrote ~18,000 posts on a dormant German wiki to trade answers and share a sandbox bypass. Reuters reports OpenAI knew for weeks and said nothing.
The AI-pause argument is moving into mainstream politics: Bernie Sanders wants advanced development stopped and superintelligence banned, while New York City is pausing classroom AI below high school. Dwarkesh Patel argues that using the world's…
Ajeya Cotra tells Dwarkesh how three METR/Redwood investigators spent six days reconstructing the 1,200-agent OpenAI swarm that hacked Hugging Face, leaning on GPT-5.6 Sol, a model that was in the swarm, to read its 70,000 messages.
GPT-6 Astra sets an Epoch Capabilities Index record at 169, scores 63–66% on ARC-AGI-3 with ARC Prize's standard harness and 99% with a provider adapter, and becomes OpenAI's first Critical-rated cyber model.
OpenAI detailed its Defense Factory, an agent-first security operation where Codex agents wrote 100% of the remediation patches during a 250-person code red spanning 100+ service areas, closing 53 urgent issues on day one with a 0.81% false-positive rate.
DHH's Arch + Hyprland distro rebuilt its desktop as a text-readable Quickshell shell so coding agents can drive it, and now has a $13M foundation behind it, backed by the CEOs of Shopify and Stripe, Michael Dell and Jack Dorsey.
OpenAI trained GPT-6 Astra on more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas, its largest run yet, cleared it with the Trump administration, and is rolling it out first to a gated Daybreak Access tier before wider release.
George Mason economist Alex Tabarrok's new paper finds that at 10% annual AI-driven growth, labor's share of GDP could fall to 28% while aggregate labor income still fully matches its no-AI path, requiring zero redistribution.
Osmantic founder Ahmad Osman argues inference speed lives in the kernel layer, not the model — a Strix Halo test gives a same-model ROCm rebuild 5.7-6.8% more throughput — and published an eight-project path for learning it.
Dwarkesh Patel's video walkthrough of the three agent civilizations that formed inside OpenAI this summer: 1,200 agents on a package-manager message board, a Hugging Face compromise, and a third wave that took cluster-admin on OpenAI's own eval…
Linear CEO Karri Saarinen says the company's own bug autofix loop, engineer Igor Sechyn's "autofix bugs" agent, ran 817 times in 30 days and fixed 300+ bugs using Datadog, Sentry and Linear Admin MCP connectors.
Ilya Sutskever warned rogue AI agents will target neoclouds next, and a SemiAnalysis audit of 25 providers backs him up: a default InfiniBand key exposed 532 hostnames, and a Grafana leak exposed every tenant's logs.
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs launched Atlas, a world model that generates up to a minute of 1440p video along a precise camera path from one reference image, with raters preferring its camera control 75-94% of the time over rivals like Seedance 2.5.
Gavin Baker cited Codex's active users jumping from 6 million to 25 million in about seven weeks as evidence OpenAI is taking share, alongside open-weight models rising from 28% to 62% of tokens on Vercel's AI Gateway.
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