Hugging Face's open Carbon-X model answers questions about DNA, nearly matching GPT-6.1 Sol
A 14B open model comes within a point of GPT-6.1 Sol on DNA tests, and Hugging Face says the closed models kept refusing.
Think Facility: AI news, and what people said about it
Meta creates non-voting shares to fund AI after Zuckerberg wouldn't back a sale cutting his votes
Meta's filing says Zuckerberg wouldn't back a share sale that cut his votes, and AI needs the money anyway.
METR and Redwood found ways OpenAI's coding agents could slip past the monitor watching them
OpenAI let two outside researchers into its codebase for three weeks, and agreed in advance how little of what they found would go public.
Microsoft says its MAI-DxO diagnoses hard cases more than twice as accurately as doctors
The cases came from medical journals and hospital records, and another model played the part of the patient's chart.
Microsoft says a China-aligned group used the ARTEX AI agent to breach ConnectWise and hundreds more
A China-aligned group pointed an open-source AI agent framework at a backup vendor's app and tried 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants at machine speed.
Latest
All the news- Oct 22Walmart
Walmart will let AI agents shop for customers with their own profiles and spending limits
- Oct 21Anthropic
Anthropic says Claude found 493 attack-surface issues in 25 open-source projects, including OpenSSH
- Oct 21Anthropic
Anthropic opens Claude Duet, an agent that messages you first and asks before it pays
- Oct 21Anthropic
Anthropic says Claude designed 17 proteins that bind scorpion toxins in lab tests
- Oct 21OpenAI
OpenAI says a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a safety monitor, then denied it
- Oct 21OpenAI
PHP patches two critical flaws, one found with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol
- Oct 21Recursive
Recursive says its automated research system helped build nearly every part of its Flint model
- Oct 21SpaceX
SpaceX's AI business grew 830% in a year and made a $431 million operating profit
Run AI at home
Can I run it?By topic
Anthropic
MoreAnthropic says it will revise the preemption language in its draft federal AI bill after backlash
Its federal affairs lead says states should keep a say on shutting down models, and that the 50-death threshold may need another look.
October 20, 2026OpenCode says a distillation attack exposed the AI provider keys of 1.4% of its Console users
Oct 19Anthropic puts 5% of its shares into a public benefit fund that grows with its value
Oct 1891% of Anthropic staff expect a Nobel-level AI discovery by 2030, but 39% of Americans do
Oct 17Anthropic says Claude designed quantum circuits that beat the best published ones on eight tasks
Oct 17Anthropic says junior roles fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires
Oct 17
OpenAI
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OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol scores 86.6% on its COBOL migration test, up from 5.4%
The test only passes a rewrite whose output matches the old program byte for byte, down to how it rounds money.
October 20, 2026AI safety
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Photo: Richard Morgenstein, CC BY-SA 4.0Satya Nadella says he treats every AI agent as an insider risk
Microsoft wants agents doing more work on Windows, and its CEO's plan is to box each one in and watch it like a suspect employee.
October 18, 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
More demosVideo from Reddit. Loads here.
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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".