🚨☣️More details on the Oct 1st pneumonic plague outbreak in Siberia, after a lab accident at a BSL-3 lab. "FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary. It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.

China built an AI that works like a human brain and it's 100x faster than current LLMs while using 97% less energy. It’s called SpikingBrain, a family of brain-inspired large models that completely re-engineers how AI processes information. Instead of burning endless energy on continuous matrix multiplications like traditional Transformers, SpikingBrain uses adaptive spiking neurons. It mimics actual biological firing patterns. Neurons only activate when triggered by specific events, meaning the model achieves a staggering ~69% sparsity at the micro level. It doesn't waste compute on silence. It only thinks when it needs to. And results change the game for long-context processing: • Achieves over a 100× speedup in Time to First Token (TTFT) for massive 4M-token sequences. • Matches performance with advanced open-source Transformer baselines while using a fraction of the data. • Built to run and scale stably on non-NVIDIA hardware clusters (like MetaX chips), completely bypassing Western hardware dependency. We spent years trying to brute-force bigger AI models by throwing more electricity and silicon at them. Nature figured out how to do it efficiently millions of years ago.

Introducing Gemini 4 Argon – our new frontier model. It’s built for complex workflows across coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense – rolling out today to a set of trusted testers through our Fairwind Program.

POV you watch @dhh explain to you coding is dead

SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic has set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area for physical biology work. It wants to unlock treatments for rare diseases, and its research has now gone beyond in silico evaluations, per Reuters.

Holy shit. Anthropic caught Iran using Claude to target Navy bases, automate dossiers on Americans, and run influence campaigns on US social media. Details are insane. The morons uploaded everything including the organization plans of the Ayatollah's funderal lmao

Everyone needs to relax I asked Claude if it’s true

Demand for Astra is really unprecedented. We're pulling all the levers possible to sustain the demand, but I've not seen anything like it until now and we went through very steep growth before. Priority will always be to keep excellent service for existing users, but we might have to pause new Pro subscriptions for a bit if this continues.

GLM-5.5 Leak: Mythos Level 🐉 >GLM-5.5 reportedly expected to beat Mythos 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra >September release window reportedly targeted >Rumored 3T+ parameter model >Expected to remain open-weight >1M-token context window reportedly carried over >Rumored to deliver frontier-level performance Can GLM-5.5 actually beat Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra?

GPT-6 Astra, trained on ~100K+ NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72. From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years. AGI has arrived. Congratulations @OpenAI team. 400K GPUs coming online next.

This is wild. The 10 year rolling returns on Treasuries is now -2%, the worst in 100 YEARS. h/t: @agnostoxxx

MrBeast has partnered with Google Gemini for a multi-year partnership to "turn impossibly big ideas into reality". This Saturday, MrBeast will upload a video on the main channel where the crew uses Gemini to help them navigate brutal terrain and harsh climates.