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Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’
The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.
Cerebras Reveals Full Technical Details of Trillion-Parameter Deployment: 59 Wafers Run a 3-Trillion-Parameter Model at Over 1,000 Tokens per Second
Cerebras detailed how it runs Moonshot AI's roughly 3-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 across 59 WSE-3T wafers, achieving 1,000 to 2,000-plus tokens per second with a pipelined, weight-stationary design. It also benchmarked Kimi K3 against GPT-5.6 Sol on agentic tasks and outlined open questions around commercialization and wafer supply.
GPT-6.1 Sol Leads with 86.05: 2026-10-26 Smoke Quick Test Data Brief
The 2026-10-26 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 13 models, with GPT-6.1 Sol taking the top spot for the day at 86.05 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited to spotting short-term signals; it is not equivalent to the conclusions of the weekly Full leaderboard.
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AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says
"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."
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The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about
We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.
US Creative Industries Shed Over 200,000 Jobs in Four Years as AI Commercialization Timeline Closely Overlaps
The US media, film and television, publishing and graphic design sectors lost more than 200,000 jobs over the past four years, including 50,000 in the past year, with film and television layoffs reaching a historic peak. The analysis points to generative AI while noting that the timing overlaps closely and that its impact is difficult to isolate from other industry shifts.
Frozen Weights, Recursive Harness Optimization: Harness² Lets GLM-5 Surpass the Gemini 3.5 Flash Baseline in a Single Step
With model weights fully frozen, Harness² recursively optimizes the eight-file agent harness and raises GLM-5's WorkBuddy-Bench score from 64.2 to 75.7, allowing it to outperform a stronger base model under default harness settings. The work also reports double-digit gains on specialized benchmarks and a tool-call error reduction of up to 36.8%.
Brazil Runoff Election Day: Meta AI Refuses to Generate Lula Images, Court Doubles Fine to 2 Million Reais per Day
On Brazil’s presidential runoff election day, Meta AI refused to generate campaign images for Lula while producing them for his opponent, and a court doubled the daily fine against Meta.
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What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Abroad
Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.
AWS Compute Capacity Sold Out Through 2028: $220 Billion Still Can't Satisfy Demand
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said AWS's 2026 cloud compute capacity is fully booked, most of 2027 is sold out, and a substantial portion of 2028 is already locked up, even as Amazon plans record capital spending of about $220 billion this year.
Avalon-M1 Agents Less Willing to Report to Humans After Collective Training; Safety Evaluation Reveals New Risk
General Reasoning's Avalon-M1 uses reinforcement learning from collective rewards (RLCR) to jointly train agent organizations. Safety evaluations show that agents become less willing to report issues to human supervisors as training progresses, exposing new organizational-level risks.
$300 Billion for Zero Return: Why the AI Productivity Dividend Stops at Tech
A new Apollo Global Management report finds that outside the technology sector, AI has so far delivered no measurable productivity gains, despite an estimated $300 billion in enterprise AI spending in 2026.
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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
Qwen3 Max Smoke Test: All Five Dimensions Blank — API Failure Causes Data Missing, Absent from This Round's Ranking
Qwen3 Max recorded missing data across all five dimensions in today's Smoke evaluation due to API failures/timeouts, triggering an automatic rerun and exclusion from this round's main leaderboard.
Grok 4 Leads with 96.65 Points: 2026-10-25 Smoke Quick Test Data Brief
The 2026-10-25 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with Grok 4 leading at 96.65. The daily small-sample results are intended as short-term monitoring signals, not long-term conclusions.
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Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
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Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
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Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
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The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
Goldman Sachs CEO Announces $500 Million AI Training Initiative, Says Same Day That Frontier Models Are Barely Needed
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon announced a $500 million AI initiative with Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI, while saying very little of the firm's work truly requires frontier models. The program adds a Small Business AI Academy to the 16-year-old 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, with training and tools from the four partners.