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A stealth model beat Claude and GPT on a coding benchmark. The sample size was ten questions.

Nvidia may buy into the company that turns Nvidia's chips into $750 million of "revenue."

205,000 layoffs blamed on AI in eight months. The firm that's counted this stuff since 1993 gets to less than half that number.

The pitch is that frontier models can generate genuine research ideas. A new blind benchmark handed seven of them a paper's reference list, scrubbed of anything they could have memorized, and asked for the paper's core idea. They got it 3 to 15 percent of the time.

AI is building AI, the headlines say. So independent researchers handed frontier agents real, unpublished research questions and six days each. The agents did all of the engineering and wrote up the results. The papers' own authors rejected both. One got a Strong Reject.

Anthropic is pitching investors a $2 trillion IPO built on a revenue forecast that requires 4.3x growth in under two years, from a company that posted its first quarterly profit three months ago on a discounted compute bill.

101,743 job-cut announcements cited AI as the reason. New York gave companies the option to cite AI on layoff filings. Zero did.

OpenAI emailed every free ChatGPT user in Europe: ads are coming, and they will use only three data points. Their own privacy policy lists seven.