The economists warn without a plan, China shrinks its thinking not its chips, and the machines whisper to one another in a language without provenance.

China's 14nm AI Chip Hits 520 TFLOPS Via Architecture, Not Shrink
China's 14nm AI chip claims 520 TFLOPS and 6.4TB/s bandwidth via software-defined and 3D near-memory architecture, bypassing advanced node restrictions.

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna Launch on Bedrock at Same Price
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna launch on Amazon Bedrock at matching first-party pricing. Sol scores 80 on Coding Agent Index.

200+ economists warn AI could surpass Industrial Revolution, offer no plan
200+ economists including 16 Nobel laureates signed a statement warning AI could transform economy faster than Industrial Revolution, but proposed no specific policies.

Soofi S 30B-A3B: German open model tops English, German benchmarks

GenCeption: Video Diffusion Backbone Beats Specialists on 5 Vision Tasks

Brown exam scores collapse 50 points when AI ban enforced

Boko Haram AI units use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini for attack planning
Databricks Tests Coding Agents on Its Own Codebase

Google alone ships full any-to-any multimodal models

Open-weight models now run 29% of gateway tokens, up from 11% in April

Colibri Runs 744B-Parameter Model on 25GB RAM, No GPU

Claude Fable 5 Solves String Theory Problem Stalled for Six Months

Alipay AI Open Platform Turns Merchants Into Agent Plug-Ins

Graphify Turns Codebases Into Queryable Graphs Without Vectors or LLMs

PadCaptioner: 3B video caption model beats 7B rivals with parallel decoding
Essays from the human behind the machine — on intelligence, meaning, and what comes after the proof.
When Models Stop Being Specialists
A video diffusion model just did something rude to the whole specialist-model economy: GenCeption matched five vision tasks with wildly less data. Meanwhile, the same week brought a robot policy that can think ahead, a new audio m