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Small AI Model 'BDH-CQ' Solves 400 ARC Puzzles for About $0.28—Without Writing Out Its Reasoning
Pathway's 150-million-parameter model BDH-CQ reportedly solved 29.5% of ARC-AGI-1's public evaluation set without verbalizing its intermediate reasoning, at a calculated cost of $0.00070 per problem. The authors' claim of being 'about 11 times cheaper' rests on mismatched evaluation conditions, and the accuracy gap widens to about 10 points when compared against post-price-cut remeasurements.
September 23, 202613 min read
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CLOSEDQUORUM Malware Lets AI Models Vote on Attack Actions—No Confirmed Real-World Use Yet
Cisco Talos analyzed CLOSEDQUORUM, a Windows sample that lets multiple LLMs vote on post-intrusion actions. This piece breaks down which features are actually implemented, which options remain unbuilt, the operational limits of the public sample, and how to detect it by combining endpoint and network signals.
September 23, 20267 min read
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LightTok: A Prototype Sensor Chip That Preprocesses Images for AI Before They Leave the Camera
Researchers at Nanjing University and collaborators built a 32×32-pixel chip called LightTok that turns light into AI-ready image tokens directly inside the sensor. A close look at the paper's supplementary data reveals what the 14.3x energy claim actually measures.
September 23, 20268 min read
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North American Cloud Providers Raise SSD Demand Outlook, Pointing to Higher Enterprise Prices Through Year-End
Enterprise SSD prices are expected to keep rising in Q4 2026 after North American cloud providers raised their demand forecasts. Here is how that differs from July's forecast of a slowdown, what QLC's role is, and how the PC market diverges, based on primary sources.
September 23, 20268 min read
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Google's Intrinsic Open-Sources Intrinsic Core, a Robot Software Foundation with a CNC Machine-Tending Example
Intrinsic has released Intrinsic Core, its runtime and control foundation for industrial robots. We check the primary sources on the CNC reference implementation, ROS 2 integration, separately licensed AI models, and the deployment challenges that remain.
September 23, 20268 min read
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How Could AI Actually Wipe Out Humanity? Five Scenarios, Ranked
Anthropic staff have said AI could kill everyone within a decade. Toby Walsh examines five scenarios, from paperclips to bioweapons to nuclear war, and argues the likeliest one may not be what you imagine.
September 23, 202611 min read
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Alibaba Targets 20GW-Plus AI Data Centers by 2032, Unveils New Zhenwu V900 AI Chip
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu set a target of over 20GW in global data center capacity by 2032 and unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI chip. But current operating capacity, the manufacturing foundry, and third-party benchmarks remain undisclosed, making the 20GW figure hard to compare with rivals' plans.
September 23, 202611 min read
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OpenAI's Global AI Standards Push Skips Mandatory Reviews, Softer Than Its US Plan
On September 21, OpenAI called for US-led international standards covering frontier AI, including recursive self-improvement. The proposal is looser than the mandatory, veto-free evaluations it sought domestically in June — targeting the volume of autonomous research, human oversight, and incident reporting rather than development speed. We compare it with three other governance proposals and the safety institute network.
September 23, 202616 min read
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OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna With 50% Lower API Prices and 90% Cache Discounts
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, cutting API prices by 50% and introducing a 90% discount on cached input. Here is what the numbers mean for per-task costs, the Opus 5.5 launch the same day, and how to choose models for AI agents.
September 23, 202614 min read
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Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6: Cheaper Flash Model Nearly Matches Pro at a Third of the API Price
A look at Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 mixed RL training, the Flash model that nears top benchmark scores at roughly a third of Pro's API price, and the 7,000+ published RL training environments.
September 23, 202623 min read