GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Fable 5.1: Which Frontier Model Fits Which Job
Astra leads computer use, Argon leads legal and finance work, and Sol wins on price for coding agents.
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Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions
AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?
On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.
Trump launches "Super Intelligence Force" that has nothing to do with actual superintelligence
Donald Trump has established a "Super Intelligence Force." "Superintelligence" is his term for artificial intelligence. The unit is led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and other government officials, coordinates with AI companies, critical infrastructure operators, and interest groups.…
NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment
New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt. governor has been making the media rounds trying to…
An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday,…
Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force
This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.
NASA and IBM's open source lunar model turns 17 years of orbiter data into a foundation for lunar science
NASA and IBM have released the Lunar Foundation Model, one of the first open-source AI models for lunar science. Trained on nearly 2 million tile bundles, mostly from 17 years of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, it cuts the error in…
Chinese AI models parrot state doctrine or refuse to answer on sensitive topics
Chinese AI models often follow the party line on politically sensitive questions, according to an Aleph Alpha study that rated only 17 to 41 percent of answers as balanced. Aleph Alpha sells "sovereign AI" to governments, giving it a commercial…
Google Research Moves Federated Learning Into TEEs: Gboard Now Trains With Externally Verifiable Differential Privacy
Google Research has unveiled a federated learning system that moves gradient computation from phones into attested server-side TEEs. Access policies are published to Sigstore's Rekor log and the binaries are reproducibly buildable, so central differential privacy can be checked externally.…
Google's new Gemini tiers cut free users to its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of Pro
Starting in October 2026, Google will cut free access to its Gemini models. Users without a subscription will only get the smallest model, Flash-Lite, while Flash and Pro will be reserved for paying customers. The move could also set the…
Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri: A 78.1B Open-Weight English-German MoE Model With Only 3.46B Active Parameters
Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a 78.1B-parameter English-German Mixture-of-Experts model that activates only 3.46B parameters per token. It has a 1M-token context and per-request reasoning effort, and its Apache 2.0 FP8 weights run on a single B200 or H200.