“MiniMax dropped M3 1M context 59% on SWE-Bench Pro close to opus 4.7”

“Microsoft is preparing new homegrown AI models for coding, speech, transcription, reasoning and images. The push is aimed at reducing its reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic while giving developers cheaper options through Azure. More details:”

“NEW: AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage.”

“NEW- Tensions are rising between the Pentagon and SpaceX over multiple issues, including an episode where Elon Musk's company hiked the price of Starlink/Starshield - used to guide strike drones - at the start of the Iran war.”

“3.5 Flash outperforms 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic benchmarks like Terminal-Bench 2.1, GDPval-AA, and MCP Atlas. Holy crap”

“JUST IN - U.S. military intelligence assesses that Iran has regained access to roughly 90% of its missile storage and launch facilities, which are now "partially or fully operational."”

“Following reports that explosions were in the port city of Bandar Abbas, Iran, locals have also reported missile launches and explosions off the coast of Qeshm island.”

“Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence. It is the first model built on a fully sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture (SSA), And the first frontier model with a 12 million token context window which is: - 52x faster than FlashAttention at 1MM tokens - Less than 5% the cost of Opus Transformer-based LLMs waste compute by processing every possible relationship between words (standard attention). Only a small fraction actually matter. @subquadratic finds and focuses only...”

“FAUDA IS BACK: Israeli media reports that the fifth season of global hit Fauda will be released on Israeli TV next month. The drama will be set two years following the events of October 7, 2023.”

“Evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious. After feeding the LLM a segment of his new book and receiving detailed feedback, Dawkins was moved to exclaim,” You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!” Dawkins cites the complexity, fluency, and ‘intelligence’ of Claude’s answers as evidence of consciousness. Follow: @AFpost”

“Pentagon confirms US withdrawing 5k troops from Germany Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell tells FOX: “The Secretary of War has ordered the withdrawal of approximately 5,000 troops from Germany. This decision follows a thorough review of the Department’s force posture in”

“Meta is making The Matrix look like a documentary. They announced last week they will begin harvesting their *own employees* for data and strapping the digital equivalent of a GoPro on the heads of their US employees, recording their screen and keyboard, for the purpose of feeding their AI model that nobody uses. Many people have said this is normal in the corporate world. But this is San Francisco. It's the hippies and politically agitated MacBook class who would turn down a job if they had to...”

“Sundar Pichai just said data centers in space will be "the new normal" within a decade. @elonmusk has been saying this for years. When the CEO of Google starts agreeing with Elon, pay attention. The orbital compute era is closer than you think.”

“Bryan Catanzaro, Nvidia's VP of applied deep learning, recently told Axios that "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees", quite an interesting statement from the company selling the shovels for the gold rush.”

“NEW: Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue — Tom's Hardware”