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Industry · NewsAmazon in talks to buy Decart for about $7 billion: what the AI startup does and why AWS wants itThe Wall Street Journal reported on October 11, 2026 that Amazon is in talks to acquire Decart for around $7 billion. Neither company has confirmed it. Decart is best known for real-time video world models, but the likely draw for AWS is its software for running AI efficiently across Nvidia, Google and Amazon chips.Oct 13·4 min read

Industry · NewsGoogle's $15 billion Visakhapatnam AI hub faces local opposition over water, power and landActivists in Andhra Pradesh want a moratorium on new data centers while Google builds its largest AI hub outside the US in Visakhapatnam. Google says the site will use air cooling and be operational in 2028. What's planned, what critics say, and what's in court.Oct 13·5 min read

Industry · NewsAnthropic's SpaceX compute deal: what's confirmed about the $1.25 billion a month, and what's only reportedA Wall Street Journal profile of co-founder Tom Brown put Anthropic's SpaceX compute deal back in the news. SpaceX's own IPO filing confirms $1.25 billion a month through May 2029, cancellable on 90 days' notice. Here's what each source actually supports.Oct 13·5 min read

Agents · NewsMicrosoft Autopilot and Work IQ: what Copilot's always-on agent does, who can get it, and how it's billedMicrosoft Autopilot is a long-running Copilot agent with its own identity, memory and cloud computer, now in private preview. Work IQ, in preview since September 30, connects Copilot to Dynamics 365 and Power Platform data. What's available as of October 12, 2026, and what it costs.Oct 13·5 min read

Open source · NewsKimi K2.6 isn't new: what Moonshot released in April, and where the "1,000 agents" claim comes fromOctober headlines call Kimi K2.6 a fresh launch with 1,000-agent swarms. Moonshot open-sourced Kimi K2.6 on April 20, 2026, and its own materials say 300 sub-agents. Here's what K2.6 is, what it costs, and how it relates to Kimi K3.Oct 13·4 min read

Industry · AnalysisAnthropic vs OpenAI revenue: why gross vs net accounting makes the run-rate headlines hard to compareBloomberg reported on October 9, 2026 that Anthropic counts the gross value of some Claude sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI books only its share. What gross and net revenue mean, and how to read the $50 billion, $65 billion and $70 billion figures.Oct 13·7 min read

Policy · AnalysisIMF: AI could affect 40% of jobs. What the number means, and why exposure isn't job lossOn October 12, 2026, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva called AI a "slow-moving tsunami" for jobs as the IMF and World Bank meetings opened in Bangkok. The 40% figure behind the headlines comes from a January 2024 IMF study of exposure, a measure that isn't the same as a forecast of job losses.Oct 13·7 min read

Research · AnalysisEpoch AI's InnovationEval: AI agents fell far short of a human ML innovation and overstated their resultsEpoch AI's InnovationEval asked Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol to invent a post-training method on their own. After Epoch removed best-run cherry-picking and out-of-scope changes, they scored 2% and 15% of a human baseline, and both write-ups overstated what they had achieved.Oct 13·8 min read

Research · AnalysisMulti-agent vs. single-agent coding: Vals AI finds agent teams cost 1.8× to 5.1× more for one significant gainVals AI ran GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 on 50 Vibe Code Bench web apps, alone and as agent teams. Teams cost 1.8× to 5.1× as much, and only one of four team-vs-single comparisons showed a statistically significant quality gain.Oct 13·7 min read

Research · AnalysisSakana AI's Multi-Layered Review: a Claude-based peer-review system that finds planted errors, and where it falls shortSakana AI's Multi-Layered Review (MLR), described in a TMLR paper, uses three Claude agents to review ML papers. On a new benchmark of 1,164 planted contradictions it caught more than 70% of errors in papers' main claims, about four times the best prior system. On real withdrawn papers and manipulated submissions, the gains shrink.Oct 13·7 min read

Developers · ExplainerClaude Code's "Compacted while idle" message, explained: why it happens and how to turn it offSince about version 2.1.286, Claude Code can summarize a large conversation on its own shortly before its one-hour prompt cache expires. Why Anthropic does it, when it fires, what it costs you, and the one-line setting that stops it.Oct 12·9 min read

Agents · NewsThe Week in AI #2: Sonnet 5.5, OpenAI DevDay and a gated Gemini 4September 28 – October 4, 2026: two $2/$10 workhorse models, OpenAI's always-on dots, Google's cyber-first Gemini 4 Argon, and Copilot learns to use your desktop.Oct 9·6 min read

Agents · NewsThe Week in AI #1: Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Grok 4.7 land within 48 hoursSeptember 21–27, 2026: three new coding-focused frontier models, Cursor's deploy-watching bots, and a sandbox for GitHub Copilot's desktop app.Oct 9·4 min read

Open source · NewsDeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: an MIT-licensed open-weights MoE that DeepSeek says beats its own flagshipReleased September 10, DeepSeek's new Flash model activates 8B–16B parameters per token, reads 1M tokens and images, and now answers V4-Pro API calls. What's confirmed and what's vendor-reported.Oct 9·7 min read

Industry · NewsOpenAI reportedly seeks $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation as it deepens Atlassian dealThe funding talks are unconfirmed and OpenAI's IPO has slipped to 2027. The Atlassian expansion, announced October 6, is the part OpenAI has put in writing.Oct 9·4 min read

Policy · NewsChatGPT starts watermarking text in the EU as the AI Act's marking deadline approachesOpenAI's October 5 rollout is the most visible sign yet of the AI Act's content-marking rule. Systems already on the market have until December 2 to comply.Oct 9·5 min read

Hardware · NewsNvidia's Vera Rubin reaches customer production as AMD buys an AI labCoreWeave says Cognition is the first customer running production work on Vera Rubin NVL72. Two days earlier, AMD agreed to buy World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock.Oct 9·4 min read

Products · NewsGemini's new skills are replacing Gems. Here's what changes and whenGoogle's reusable instructions can be built from your chats, called with a slash and combined. Gems for personal accounts go away in November.Oct 9·5 min read

Developers · NewsOpenAI's Agents API puts the Codex harness behind one endpoint: what developers get, and what they give upIn public beta since September 10, with computer use added September 29. How sessions, sandboxes and approvals work, what it costs, and the catches.Oct 9·5 min read

Developers · NewsCursor's latest release puts your local agents on your iPhoneRemote control for local agents arrived on October 6, capping a month of agent-management features in Cursor. What's new, what it costs, and what's unclear.Oct 9·6 min read

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