ChatGPT co-inventor launches Jev, a new RLCD decision-model class claiming 20–200× speed and 40–400× cost gains.
DeepMind announces Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking, adding background task handling to conversational AI.
Meta’s CEO details its alignment posture, including delaying Muse and arguing against indiscriminate capability racing.
OpenAI says GPT-5.5 will be retired October 14 across ChatGPT and Codex, directing users to GPT-6 Astra or 5.6 Sol.
A live Minecraft eval documents GPT-6 Astra’s record progress—blaze farming and warped-forest navigation—before state loss.
Reports Periodic Labs trained an open-weight model on 1,300 H200s and lab data that beats GPT-6 Astra internally.
Public interactive demos show GPT-6 Astra solving difficult 3-D spatial tasks such as interlocked-part and rope puzzles.
Emad Mostaque estimates DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cost $10M to train and matches Astra on everyday benchmarks at far lower cost.
A practitioner reports replacing Claude Code and Codex with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: roughly 2B tokens for $10.
Nate Silver examines the unexpected left-wing opposition to AI regulation and its political implications.