Vol. I · No. 168SUN, OCT 4, 2026
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The double pill dilemma

Reddit discussion on OpenAI strategy tradeoffs; lacks substantive technical or business detail.

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Musk v. Altman: Much ado about nothing

Today I’m talking with Liz Lopatto, who spent the last month covering the Musk v. Altman trial in all its chaos. You’ll hear her describe the courthouse as a “zoo” and explain that there were protests of one kind or another happening outside every day. Both Elon Musk and Sam Altman are big personalities, and people have a lot of feelings about both of them and the AI industry. And in the end… nothing happened! The jury found that Elon had filed his lawsuit after the statute of limitations had run out. You’ll hear Liz explain exactly what’s going on there. Beyond that, the trial was nominally ...

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Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year for access to Elon Musk’s data centers

Earlier this month, SpaceX and Anthropic announced a new compute partnership that provides access to the rocket company's Colossus data centers in Memphis, TN. Now, with the release of SpaceX's IPO filing, we have more details about that deal, including how much Anthropic is paying to Elon Musk's company. In its S-1 filing, SpaceX said that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.25 billion per month through May 2029 for access to SpaceX's AI training centers at Colossus I and Colossus II. That's $15 billion annually, or nearly double the $18.7 billion in revenue that SpaceX reported in all of 2025. The a...

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I can’t believe how fast Google vibe coded my first Android app

That’s my own Android app. Bad, yet impressive. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Yesterday, I built my first Android app. Then, I made two more - three in one afternoon. For one, I literally typed 148 words into my web browser and walked away. Ten minutes later, I had an entire new app on my actual Android phone. I did have to prep that phone by enabling a USB debugging mode and plugging it into my PC, but as advertised, Google's AI Studio did literally everything else for me. I typed in words, I hit install, and voilà: an entire working program. I was nearly ready to agree with David, A...

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Tencent Hy 30B/7B/1.8B

Tencent releases Hy-MT2 multilingual translation models (1.8B–30B MoE) supporting 33 languages with 1.25-bit quantization.

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Meta lays off thousands of employees to offset AI investments

Meta says it needs to “offset the other investments we're making.” | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta has reportedly notified thousands of employees that they've been laid off as the company attempts to compensate for its hefty AI investments. In an email from Meta management shared by Business Insider, impacted staffers were told that the planned headcount reduction was part of the company's "continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we're making." Reports of an upcoming wave of layoffs started circulating in March...

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if only Descartes could see LLMs now

Reddit post comparing Descartes' philosophical argument against machine cognition to modern LLM capabilities; no new technical claims.

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