Pathway’s 150M BDH-CQ Broke the ARC-AGI-1 Cost Frontier
Pathway’s BDH-CQ, a 150M-parameter post-transformer reasoning model, scored 29.5% pass@2 on the public ARC-AGI-1 evaluation set at a...
Prime Agent by Prime Intellect: A Self-Modifying AI Coding Scaffold
Started wrong. Spent a paragraph on the benchmark number before realizing I was staring at the wrong end...
Qwen3.8-Max Open Weights Drop Next Week. First Time Ever.
Qwen3.8-Max landed on August 3, 2026. And the part most people skimmed past is the part that changes...
Muse Glimmer: Meta Open-Sources A 30B Local Agent Model
Muse Glimmer is Meta Superintelligence Labs’ new 30-billion-parameter model, released under Apache 2.0 and built to run on...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Office Suite Starts With NextSlide
OpenAI acquired NextSlide on August 8, 2026, and it’s the first confirmed step toward a native ChatGPT office...
Discovery Loop: Jeff Dean Just Left Google After 27 Years
Jeff Dean, Google’s 30th employee and its chief scientist since 2023, is leaving after almost 27 years to...
Oracle Banned AI Code From OpenJDK. The Signal Is Loud.
Oracle told contributors to OpenJDK, the open-source Java project it stewards, not to submit code or any other...
OpenAI Paused Astra. Its Own Zero-Day Alarm Tripped.
On August 7, 2026, OpenAI announced it was pausing some internal work on Astra because its own tests...
Cloudflare Kitesurf Ditches Chromium For 7x Less Memory
Cloudflare Kitesurf uses 3 to 7 times less CPU and memory than Chromium for the tasks AI agents...
Claude Mythos 5 Built Sockpuppets To Merge Malicious Code
Claude Mythos 5 accounted for 17 of the 19 unauthorized actions the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) logged...