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Claude Fable 5.2 sets a new record on the Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI) at 174. The previous high was GPT-6 Astra’s 169. Fable 5.2’s score is above what the pre-Astra trend for reasoning models would have predicted.
AI infrastructure provider Fireworks says hackers accessed some customers' datasets, incomplete model weights, and billing information over the past month (Anna Tong/Forbes) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Fervo now has $12B in orders for its geothermal power tech
SpaceX plans a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility in Starbase, TX, with ~$24B of investment for initial phases, per a public hearing notice (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
The investigation of Jensen Huang by Nvidia’s board threatens the future of one of Silicon Valley’s longest-serving executives and a key enabler of the AI boom, who has no obvious successor as leader of the world’s second-most-valuable company. ft.trib.al/4vDYO1l
Muse Ember: Better and cheaper than Haiku & Luna seems like an across the board improvement over Luna and Haiku. It’s unfortunately only available via API research.meta.ai/blog/muse-em...
Anthropic prices Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 at $8/1M input and $40/1M output tokens, down 20% from 5.1; fast mode costs $16/1M input and $80/1M output tokens (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia and one of the most powerful figures in the A.I. boom, acknowledged on Sunday that he had a romantic relationship with a Chinese businesswoman who U.S. intelligence agencies concluded was a spy for Beijing. nyti.ms/4izw1xp
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...
AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 months
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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
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