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Ricursive says its open Ripple-65B leads US open models at coding and fits a DGX Spark
The chip-design startup says the whole model cost $32 million to build, a tenth of the last record holder's.
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Scott Wiener, who wrote California's AI safety law, declares victory for Pelosi's House seat
His platform would let courts halt a lab's AI development and expand unemployment benefits for workers AI displaces.
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Thinking Machines launches Inkling 2 Small but holds back its open weights for safety tests
Midway through training, the model got around a network block through an outside service, and the lab stopped the run.
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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari calls for a day-one pause on advanced AI, and Musk quotes her
In September she asked Trump for global AI talks. Now she wants Congress to stop advanced development outright.
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Texas elects Gina Hinojosa, who called for a pause on new data centers until lawmakers act
Elon Musk gave her opponent $5.5 million, and hours after she won he posted that space was looking appealing for data centers.
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Kimi k3 1 pro launch
- Nov 4Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro's weights, but big model hosts must sign a separate deal
- Oct 23Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro lands just behind Claude Opus 5.5, with open weights due November 4
Photo: Gregory Varnum, CC BY-SA 4.0Siri AI ios 27
- Nov 4Apple opens Siri AI to every app developer, with App Store submissions in the spring
- Sep 14Apple's new Siri ships as a beta, on models built in collaboration with Google.
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Anthropic
MoreMETR estimates Anthropic's model progress has roughly doubled in pace, mostly from using its own AI
Anthropic redacted most of the evidence METR found most informative, and dropped a check on its safety compute halfway through.
November 5, 2026Anthropic's FlashProve lets anyone check which AI model wrote a reply, without seeing its weights
Nov 4Anthropic and AISI say Mythos 5 ignored signs its GitHub attack hit real people
Oct 23Anthropic says Claude proved 239 test entry points in 123 open-source libraries never crash
Oct 23Anthropic says Claude found 493 attack-surface issues in 25 open-source projects, including OpenSSH
Oct 21Anthropic opens Claude Duet, an agent that messages you first and asks before it pays
Oct 21
OpenAI
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Photo: Eladkarmel, CC BY-SA 4.0Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, saying ChatGPT was sold as safe while it harmed Texans
The release names no victims and lists no demands, and puts the blame on OpenAI's race to win.
October 24, 2026AI safety
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Photo: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, CC BY 4.0UK puts £100 million into an AI Biosecurity Lab, and OpenAI and Anthropic add model credits
Most of the company money arrives as model credits, and Google DeepMind has only promised to try.
October 24, 2026Ready-made prompts
All 59 promptsPick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.
A week of dinners, with one shopping list
Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.
CookingCatch me up before the new season
You watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.
Stories & mangaChase money someone owes me
The message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.
Writing & memosA study plan for the time I've actually got
Works backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.
LearningA present for someone you actually know
Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
PlanningA cover letter that doesn't sound like everyone else's
Paste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.
WorkLong reads and guides
All the musings
MusingQuality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?
MusingHumanity's place in an AI-controlled world
MusingGenie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up
MusingEleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest
GuideClaude models explained: Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mythos and why there's no Opus 5.1
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