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Today in brief.
Qwen3.8-27B put a near-frontier model on a single 3090
Artificial Analysis benchmarks land Qwen3.8-27B next to DeepSeek V4 and GPT-5.6 Luna Max, and people are running it on consumer GPUs today.
🤖 AI
Cursor launched its own GitHub
Cursor shipped Origin - repo hosting, PR review, agent runs and Vercel deploys in one place - moving from editor to the whole loop.
🔬 Science
Unitree's Superman jumps higher than any human
Unitree previewed a humanoid it says jumps higher than any human and tops Usain Bolt's speed, days before a 2000-robot games event.
💼 Business
The money moved to inference and power, not training
Groq raised $350M to pivot from chips to neocloud, Nvidia is putting $1.5B into a SoftBank data center developer, and Wispr raised $280M - the capital is chasing serving capacity.
🤖 AI
Amazon is shredding rare books to train AI
A reporter hid an AirTag in a shipment of rare books and watched it end inside an Amazon AI training facility, where the books get cut apart to be scanned.
🤖 AI
Anthropic finished training Mythos 2 and is not releasing it
Anthropic says Mythos 2 is trained but staying internal, with the focus shifting to using it to improve their own systems rather than shipping it.
🏛️ Policy
A judge who leaned entirely on AI is immune from being sued
A court ruled that a judge allegedly relying wholly on AI to write an order is still covered by judicial immunity, so there is no one to sue.
🤖 AI
Copilot's autofix opened a path into Snowflake's Jira
Wiz found that an AI-generated GitHub Copilot autofix could be used to compromise Snowflake's Jira through the CI/CD pipeline.
🤖 AI
DeepMind says LLMs cannot invent a new explanation
A DeepMind paper argues LLMs cannot generate genuinely novel explanatory hypotheses - they interpolate rather than jump.
🤖 AI
Claude's text watermarks explained
Anthropic detailed how invisible SynthID text watermarks will work in Claude output, which matters for anyone whose work passes through a model.
🤖 AI
GPT-5.6 Sol got 50% cheaper and is OpenAI's best vision model
Roboflow calls GPT-5.6 Sol the best vision model OpenAI has released, and its price just dropped by half on OpenRouter.
🔧 Tech
The anti-AI backlash is organizing
A librarian's guide to avoiding intrusive AI, an 'AI;DR' manifesto and a fast.ai post about joining an AI startup while all your friends hate AI - the resistance is now a genre.
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