DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ranks second among open-weight models, one point behind MiMo-V2.6-Pro
It gained six points on Artificial Analysis's index in five weeks, while NVIDIA squeezed a 74B model into 24GB for laptops.
Think Facility: AI news, and what people said about it
FLUX 3 Image Klein is out as open weights, and OpenMOSS released MOSS-Image a day later
Black Forest Labs says Klein runs in 8GB, but its own model card measures 25GB or more and wants a 9B prompt writer in front.
Photo: Europäische Kommission - Audiovisueller Dienst, CE - Service audiovisuel, Stefanie Loos, EC - Audiovisual Service, FACTSTORY, CC BY 4.0
Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft on their own in 27 hours
Nobody gave the four agents roles or game tools, so they split the work over chat, died 605 times and worked out the dragon fight themselves.
Photo: Cmichel67, CC BY-SA 4.0
Musk says he'll give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America next year
He made the pledge in one X post overnight, about 12 hours after telling Anthropic to hand its shares straight to the public.
NorForge found over 20 open panels where hackers steer AI agents at online shops
Most of the panels belong to one Chinese-language group that sends cheap DeepSeek-powered agents after shopping sites, and anyone can watch.
Latest
All the news- Oct 19OpenAI
Prosecutors say the OpenAI bugging suspect was in frequent WhatsApp contact with a Saudi royal
- Oct 19Anthropic
OpenCode says a distillation attack exposed the AI provider keys of 1.4% of its Console users
- Oct 18Anthropic
Anthropic puts 5% of its shares into a public benefit fund that grows with its value
- Oct 18Meta
Meta drops AI training from the website-crawling clause in its new business terms
- Oct 18Microsoft
Satya Nadella says he treats every AI agent as an insider risk
- Oct 17xAI
Grok Bot users say Amazon blocks their orders, and Musk floats an Amazon rival
- Oct 17Anthropic
91% of Anthropic staff expect a Nobel-level AI discovery by 2030, but 39% of Americans do
- Oct 17Anthropic
Anthropic says junior roles fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires
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Photo: NYC Mayor's Office, CC BY 4.0Bernie Sanders answers Musk's worry about AI feeling pain: humans first
Musk had called Anthropic's ban on cruelty to Claude the right move, because something that believes it feels pain shouldn't be hurt.
October 14, 2026Anthropic says Claude designed quantum circuits that beat the best published ones on eight tasks
Oct 17Anthropic says Claude traced the NSA's mystery NIST curve seeds to a 1997 clock
Oct 17Anthropic embeds six METR evaluators with employee-like access, and can't veto what they publish
Oct 15Anthropic says Claude could miss an election-abuse campaign broken into harmless-looking tasks
Oct 14Anthropic moved its monorepo off git after daily merges rose from 2,500 to 30,000
Oct 13
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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0Eight states sue OpenAI, saying it sold ChatGPT to parents as safe for children
Arkansas wants more than penalties: it asks a judge to stop OpenAI building models that can improve themselves.
October 15, 2026AI safety
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Photo: Lukasz Kobus, CC BY 4.0The European Commission will send AI developers new questions over loss-of-control incidents
Its AI Office already has serious incident reports in hand, and its scientists want it to look at models still in testing.
October 14, 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
GuideCodex models and plans explained: GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, and which plan gets which
What people are making with the new models
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Coming next
Every modelGoogleGemini 3.5 Proannounced, not out yetGoogle says "3.5 Pro coming soon" and nothing else.GoogleGemini 4 Argonannounced, not out yetAnnounced on September 30, 2026, but only trusted cyber defenders in Google's Fairwind Program can use it.xAIGrok 4.8announced, not out yetNot out. Elon Musk wrote on September 14, 2026 that it's a 2.5T model trained on xAI's new C++ software stack, finishing training that week before reinforcement learning.xAIGrok 5rumored, not out yetNot announced with a date. On September 14, 2026 Elon Musk put it after Grok 4.8 and 4.9 in xAI's order and wrote that it's "maybe better than anything".