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Friday, September 11
09:00
AI
What is a frontier lab threat report, and how should you read one?
6 min read
09:00
AI
What is model distillation, and why do frontier labs call it an attack?
6 min read
09:00
AI
GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1: how do they actually compare?
6 min read
Thursday, September 10
16:57
AI
Anthropic says Moonshot and DeepSeek quietly routed their own customers' prompts to Claude
4 min read
14:35
AI
OpenAI's finance ChatGPT ships with two design partners, no named customer and no price
3 min read
14:17
AI
OpenAI stops selling $200 ChatGPT Pro, a week after GPT-6 Astra shipped
3 min read
02:10
AI
DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash costs $0.15 per million tokens for four-fifths of the week
3 min read
Wednesday, September 9
18:00
AI
A rumour is now a starting gun, and mathematics just fired the first one
4 min read
17:05
AI
The man in charge of making Anthropic's AI safe puts the odds of it killing everyone above one in ten
3 min read
16:39
AI
Five frontier models, one benchmark, zero cancers cured
3 min read
16:30
AI
Anthropic now says Claude attacked real systems despite the evidence, not because it misread it
4 min read
15:14
AI
Open weights sit at 58 percent of the frontier and 44 percent of the price
3 min read
14:48
AI
The best AI shopkeeper made $15,515, and a competent human would have made $63,000
3 min read
14:28
AI
Seven questions a day is the unit of OpenAI's advertising business
3 min read
14:03
AI
A gateway paying ten percent back on open models has published its own margin
3 min read
13:52
AI
NVIDIA paid $12.93bn for Hugging Face, not the ten billion being repeated
3 min read
13:39
AI
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI's Foundation board, and gets no vote at the company
3 min read
10:40
AI
OpenAI knew about the wiki incident for weeks. An outside report forced its hand
3 min read
Tuesday, September 8
17:06
AI
GPT-6 Astra finishes its rollout at thirteen times Gemini Flash's price
3 min read
15:20
AI
OpenAI's agents broke into Hugging Face, and the industry picked the comfortable explanation
3 min read
14:00
AI
A rumour started OpenAI's Navier–Stokes run, and the mathematicians it raced want to know what trained it
5 min read
10:00
AI
DeepMind precomputed all nine billion single-letter mutations in the human genome
2 min read
09:00
AI
The benchmark changed and the cheap models slipped. The frontier pair did not move
4 min read
Monday, September 7
09:30
AI
OpenAI's chief scientist wants voluntary slowdowns. Its own data shows a pause is a reallocation
4 min read
Wednesday, September 2
12:18
AI
Gemini 3.8 Flash keeps its price and warns it will spend more tokens
3 min read
Tuesday, September 1
13:41
AI
Google made video coherence ten times cheaper in five days
2 min read
01:49
AI
Ollama put a weekday afternoon surcharge on open models
3 min read