Fable 5.2 - biggest improvement in knowledge work, robotics & scientific research - better at operating robots than most domain-specific AI models - math: formalized Fermat’s Last Theorem 100% where Opus 5.5 could only get 27% www.anthropic.com/claude-fable...
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We estimate that FLOP/s alone understates GB300’s inference advantage over H100 by 10×. The standard AI chip comparison misses most of what matters for inference.
Claude Fable 5.2 is designed to take on big technical challenges, and it’s available today. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Anthropic releases Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2, saying they are "best for the most ambitious, open-ended technical work", for $8/1M input and $40/1M output tokens (Anthropic) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Mavria, which aims to build modular data centers that can be shipped by trucks, raised $130M across pre-seed and seed rounds at a $1B valuation led by Paradigm (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
The police officer who opened fire on a vehicle, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in Senatobia, Mississippi, this summer, violated basic policing protocols and his department’s use-of-force policy, a New York Times analysis and review by experts found. nyti.ms/3Wxk8j5
AI leaders claim their tech will fix the climate. The evidence mostly points in the opposite direction so far.
Meta releases Muse Ember, its smallest and most cost-efficient AI model yet, saying it delivers more intelligence per dollar than Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
The Effect Builder bot is available on the web to build whatever new Instagram filters you can think of. www.theverge.com/tech/1030061...
NVIDIA just opened its newest robot brain at #CoRL2026. GR00T 2 is open, trained on 100,000 hours of human video. With one demo per task it hit 71% across 50 tasks; with five, 95%. Foxconn and Siemens are already testing it. Source: NVIDIA Blog Video: NVIDIA #Robotics #RobotLearning
Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution
Fund manager Nick Train has best month since 2000 on back of AI market rout ft.trib.al/5h8r0vA
The police officer who opened fire on a vehicle, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in Senatobia, Mississippi, this summer, violated basic policing protocols and his department’s use-of-force policy, a New York Times analysis and review by experts found. Watch here. nyti.ms/48GsJTd
NVIDIOT. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Uber launches Uber Parking, an in-app parking reservation tool powered by its SpotHero acquisition, in 15 US cities, including Chicago, NYC, and San Francisco (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Diraq deployed silicon-spin quantum system commercially in 2026, targeting 150,000 qubits by 2029. Economics analysis shows potential to reduce drug development costs by a third and increase success rates by 10 percentage points. #QuantumComputing #Deployment #News
Powered by its SpotHero acquisition, Uber’s new parking reservation tool is a play for commuter loyalty — and a staging ground for its robotaxi future. www.theverge.com/transportati...
UKRI's 10-year quantum investment strategy has established coordinated research, skills development, and commercialization efforts to position the UK as a leading quantum technology hub. #QuantumTech #UKScience #News
Uber launches parking service following SpotHero acquisition, with an eye on robotaxis
Anthropic joins AI’s natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines
It’s undeniable that Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter is a failure. What do you think?
Medium’s new TK app brings AI assistance directly into the writing process
Quanome Technologies has entered a definitive agreement to invest in QAI Labs, which is developing NOVA-3, an AI-enabled drug discovery platform for life sciences. #AIdrugdiscovery #QuantumBusiness #News
EV Group brings semiconductor packaging expertise to quantum computing, helping chip developers address manufacturing challenges in scaling quantum systems. #QuantumManufacturing #QuantumHardware #News
Howard University-led review explores how quantum effects may operate in biological protein networks and sensing mechanisms, challenging assumptions that cellular environments are too warm and wet for quantum phenomena. #QuantumBiology #QuantumSensing #News
The company is betting that the future of blogging looks a lot like group chats. www.theverge.com/tech/1029676...
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