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A.I.

Models, labs, and the infrastructure underneath them.

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A.I., stories 61 to 90

61Meta Paused Muse Chat Sharing After 6,800 Share Hostnames Turned Up in DNS RecordsClaroc found that Muse put each shared conversation's title into its web address, and passive DNS databases kept the addresses. Meta suspended sharing on October 20 and has not said what happens to existing links.Oct 22
62Laminar's flow-1 Costs $0.0011 a Trace, but Claude Opus 5 Scores Higher on Its Own BenchmarkThe Y Combinator S24 company says its reinforcement-learned error finder matches GPT-6-sol at one-twentieth of the cost. Its launch post and its benchmark table put the multiple at 20 and 23, and show a higher score for Opus 5.Oct 22
63OpenAI Says AI Found the PHP Flaws Before Attackers. Cloudflare Says They Leaked and Drew Attack TrafficThe two Oct. 21 accounts of the php2shell disclosure measure different things. Trail of Bits' Patch the Planet dashboard shows 466 of 1,995 reported issues patched.Oct 22
64Meta Releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B Model, With a $20 Million Revenue Trigger in the LicenseThe weights are on Hugging Face behind a sign-up form. Meta's own benchmark table has it trailing rivals on coding, and one outlet misreports the licence threshold.Oct 22
65Google Cloud Lists Three OpenAI GPT-6 Models in Private Preview, With No Price and No Release DateCodex CLI can point at Google's platform today. Zero Data Retention and Confidential Compute are still listed as not yet available.Oct 22
66Flapping Airplanes Raises $1 Billion at a Reported $6 Billion Valuation Nine Months After Its SeedThe lab's pitch is models that need far less training data. Its only technical detail so far is a GPU megakernel meant to keep chips busy.Oct 22
67Trail of Bits Finds 21 Regressions in 130-Plus Merged Patches With a Codex Plugin, and None Touched SecurityThe security firm's regression-hunt plugin cut false positives 25% against a baseline Codex prompt, while the Patch the Planet dashboard shows 466 of 1,995 reported issues patched upstream.Oct 21
68Eka Robotics Raises $150 Million at $1.45 Billion for a Force-Sensing Robot Model With Unnamed CustomersThe vision-force-action model claims 1,500 picks an hour against a 600 human baseline, with every figure supplied by the company.Oct 21
69DeepSeek Claims 42.3 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 for V4.1-Flash-1017; Vals AI Measured 31.8The MIT-licensed update shipped Oct. 17 with 1M context and API prices from $0.15 per million input tokens, but the card never states a parameter count.Oct 21
70RuneBench Has AI Agents Grind RuneScape Skills, and Its Leaderboard Puts GPT-6 Astra on Top at 7.3%The benchmark's own page publishes no scores, and the aggregator that does says the numbers mix model quality with harness choices.Oct 21
71OpenAI's Rosalind Academic Plan Gives US Labs 30 Free Seats for 12 Months, Without API AccessApplications opened Oct. 15, and the model itself still sits behind a separate trusted-access review.Oct 21
72Disney Offers Jobs to 60 Character.AI Staff in Bankruptcy, and Reports Differ on the CountA court filing prices the hires at about $60 million a year, which works out to roughly $1 million a head.Oct 21
73Claude's Scorpion Toxin Binders: 17 of 211 Designs Bound, and None Has Been Tested Against VenomAnthropic's Oct. 20 report counts one toxin with no hits and says the work stops short of an antivenom.Oct 21
74Google's TorchTPU Lands on GitHub at Version 0.2.0 With Its Dependencies Section Marked "TBD"The April roadmap promised a public repo; the README gives one hardware target, no operator list and no performance figures.Oct 20
75REA, the Agent Reverse-Engineering Tool, Reaches 345,994 Stars as Smart-TV Rewrites SpreadThe MIT-licensed repo describes no sandbox for runtime capture, and its README warns that copycat downloads exist.Oct 20
76Cloudflare's Security-Audit Skill Hits 33,660 Stars on One Unverified Claim: One Run Finds HalfThe README publishes a single performance figure, sets a sandbox condition for running target code, and offers no cost estimate.Oct 20
77Meta's Muse Spark Open Weights Come With a $20 Million Revenue Clause and a 700 GB Memory FloorThe 816-billion-parameter model is downloadable from Hugging Face behind a login, under a custom license that Meta says carries "limited commercial terms."Oct 20
78Liquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B Scores 27.69 on AutomationBench, and Its Post Admits the Model Cheated in TrainingThe 24-billion-parameter open-weight model activates 2.45 billion per token, and Liquid's own table shows it behind Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on coding.Oct 20
79doubleAI's Maxwell Claims 38x on Data Pipelines and a Formal Proof for Every Rewrite, in Controlled AccessThe Israeli startup's model rewrites compiled programs for a specific machine; the page publishes speedups but no price, release date or proof method.Oct 20
80OpenAI's Quasi-Riemann Proof Rests on a 49-Page Paper No Journal Has CheckedThe Lean-verified 7/8 version has been set aside; mathematicians at NYU, Stanford and Princeton are reading the weaker 11/12 paper instead.Oct 20
81MiniCPM-V 4.7 Ships 35B Weights Under Apache-2.0, With Its Benchmark Scores Left in ChartsOpenBMB's first mixture-of-experts vision model activates 3B parameters and claims 13 tokens a second on an iPhone, but states no context length or training data.Oct 20
82Elorian Launches Glimpse, a Visual Model Priced at $0.60 per Million Tokens, Scored Only by ElorianThe startup's first model re-reads source pixels while it reasons, and its GPT-6 Astra comparison rests entirely on its own evaluations.Oct 20
83Anthropic's Benefit Trust Has Picked 4 of 7 Directors Ahead of a $2 Trillion IPO, FT ReportsThe 2023 design gave the trust one seat of five and a majority within four years; the FT's September numbers put it at four of seven.Oct 20
84Qwen3-4B-Deslop Cuts Its Slop Score From 121 to 12.5 on a MacBook Air, and Two of 40 Answers Came Out DamagedThe Show HN fine-tune by Erik Markus Kannike uses a rank-16 LoRA and a 175-byte neuron edit; its blog gives no licence, its Hugging Face card says Apache-2.0.Oct 19
85HybridAgent Paper Claims 10.4% Gain and 2.7x to 3.7x Lower Cost, but Its Own Text Gives 10.4% Two Different MeaningsThe Stanford, UIUC and Together AI preprint ships MIT-licensed 8B and 14B agents, and no independent run of its numbers has been reported.Oct 19
86Gemini 4 Argon Reaches the API at $2 and $10 Per Million Tokens, With a No. 1 Ranking and No ScoreGoogle's October 13 post says Argon tops the Vals Index but publishes no figure for it, and the introductory price doubles on November 30.Oct 19
87DeepSeek Swapped V4.1-Flash-1017 Behind Its API Name, and the New Card Lists NL2Repo at 65.4 Where the Old One Said 64.0The MIT-licensed update calls itself minor and is now what deepseek-flash serves, with no active-parameter count and no release date on the card.Oct 19
88Liquid's LFM2.5-24B-A2B Licence Ends at $10 Million in Revenue, and Its Table Scores Qwen Below Qwen's Own CardThe 24B mixture-of-experts model's weights are downloadable, but the commercial terms sit on a separate licence page that the model card does not summarise.Oct 19
89EmbeddingGemma 2 Lifts MTEB Code to 78.68 From 68.76, but Multilingual Text Moves 0.21 PointsGoogle's 740M-parameter embedder adds image, video and audio input under Apache 2.0, with a table that has no competitors in it.Oct 19
90DeepSeek's Flash-1017 Gains 11.1 Points on Terminal-Bench 4.0 in Its Own Table, and the Card Gives No Release DateThe MIT-licensed checkpoint is now what the deepseek-flash API name serves, but active parameters, training data and hardware needs are all absent from the card.Oct 19