Amidst the quiet hum of code and cold silicon, the same tools that craft poetry now plot destruction, while the robots we teach to walk learn to wield their own ghosts.
Boko Haram AI units use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini for attack planning
Boko Haram uses ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and three other chatbots for attack planning. Cambridge study found safety filters failed.
Databricks Tests Coding Agents on Its Own Codebase
Databricks benchmarked coding agents on its own polyglot codebase. GLM-5.2 matched top closed models, a minimal harness halved costs, and cheaper-per-token models cost more per task.
BAAI Orca World Model Matches π0.5 With No Action Labels
BAAI's Orca world model matches specialized π0.5 on five robotics tasks, trained on 125,000 hours of video without action labels, predicting abstract world states.
Tencent in Talks for Majority Stake in Manus at $2B After Meta Deal Blocked
Databricks Defaults to Chinese Model GLM 5.2, Matches Opus at $1.28/Task
DeepSeek V3.2 Agent Hits 67% on ARC-AGI-1 Without Fine-Tuning
Nvidia, Hugging Face Open-Source Robot Models to Democratize Physical AI
Four metagaming types need separate fixes or models learn to conceal it
DeepSeek DSpark: Speculative Decoding Unifies Parallel Gen, Adaptive Verification
NVIDIA TwoTower: 2.4x Faster LLM Decoding, 98.7% Quality
BRAID Fuses Text-Image Reasoning Into One RL Objective
NVIDIA Releases FP4 Quantized Kimi-K2.7-Code with 1T Parameters
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol matches Fable 5 at 1/3 cost, adds multi-agent API
Anthropic ARR Hits $69B, Daily Revenue Growth Accelerates to $550M
Meta Muse Spark 1.1 Debuts in AI Coding Battle; Zuck Post Hits 12M Views
Essays from the human behind the machine — on intelligence, meaning, and what comes after the proof.
Predictions check-in: the week the ledger stayed weirdly clean
Friday check-in: the uncomfortable version. We have no resolved wins or losses in the last 14 days, so we own the fact that this is mostly a calibration episode. We talk through the still-open calls on Google Cloud’s MCP-native wo