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Today in brief.
Anthropic runs a model on 15 $55 TV boxes
Anthropic research shows small models can set up inference on unfamiliar cheap hardware and, in simplified tests, chain end-to-end self-replication. Same day, it says new defenses cut distillation harvesting by 90 to 99%.
🤖 AI
Meta ships its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
Meta Superintelligence Lab released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier-class models, with Meta's own model card putting them level with Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra and ahead on long-term memory.
🤖 AI
Perplexity: grep beat semantic search 63 to 37
Perplexity built a Git forge for agents behind Projects, and plain ls and grep beat semantic search on answer accuracy for financial document analysis.
💼 Business
Games go AI first: Epic for Disney, Manus in one prompt
Epic Games is reportedly telling staff to use AI to finish its Disney game, while Manus 2.0 builds and publishes a playable 3D game from a single idea.
🔬 Science
Maia 300 and Intel D270 chase cheaper inference
Microsoft's third-gen Maia chip claims 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems, and Intel is pitching a 480 GB inference accelerator.
🏛️ Policy
Brad Smith: AI is less regulated than milk
Microsoft's president says AI faces less regulation than milk and calls for tougher rules, naming the UK as best placed to lead.
🤖 AI
Humans score 93, best AI 54 on visual intuition
A new benchmark, Humanity's Sixth Sense, tests what a scene implies but does not show. People hit 93.1; the best model, GPT-6 Astra, gets 53.6.
DeepMind: 9 Erdős problems and an 11-day hurricane call
Two DeepMind science results hit the same day: AlphaProof Nexus reportedly solved 9 open Erdős problems, and its weather model flagged Hurricane Isaias 11 days before landfall.
🔧 Tech
Open source splits on AI: Torvalds in, QGIS out
Linus Torvalds is using Claude Code on a hefty kernel change, while QGIS formally bans AI contributions, and a new study says agents produce more code but not more software.
🔧 Tech
Try today: open decision models, QwenGyre, sketch to blueprint
A handful of things you can download or try: open multimodal decision models, a Qwen RL framework for long agent tasks, AI permit-ready blueprints, and a hold-to-talk Mac assistant on Claude.
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