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🇮🇷 Iran-Linked Operator Turned Anthropics Claude Against US Warships

Anthropic says an Iran-linked operator used Claude to track US naval forces and prepare targeting recommendations.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Sep 11, 2026

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GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI Calls It the AGI Era

GPT-6 Astra saturates FrontierMath, ARC-AGI-3 and ExploitBench, drives a computer better than any model before it, and overstepped its instructions zero times in OpenAI's own test.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Sep 4, 2026

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🦆 The $399 Robot You Can Retrain

Microduck puts a real robot-training lab on your desk for $399, and Nvidia just moved to buy its parent company Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 28, 2026

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🏗️ $130 Billion Of Data Centers Hit A Wall

Community opposition stalled 75 projects in a single quarter, organized groups now operate in 49 states, and Senate Republicans are warning AI companies it could cost them Ohio.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 21, 2026

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🐛 GLM-5.3 Released: Nobody Taught It To Hack

The Chinese lab behind the GLM series only scaled post-training on a model it had already shipped, and a cyber capability nobody designed showed up. GLM-5.3 has already found 2,436 real vulnerabilities in live code, including one that had been sitting there since 1981.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 14, 2026

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TikTok's Owner Builds a Secret AI Giant on Mythos-level

ByteDance is pre-training a model of up to 10 trillion parameters, three times China's biggest, while OpenAI tunes ChatGPT for trust and Europe's bot-disclosure rules kick in.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Aug 7, 2026

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🐋 DeepSeek Answered OpenAI's Price Cut Overnight

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% on Thursday. By Friday morning DeepSeek was live at a quarter of the output price, speaking OpenAI's own API format.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 31, 2026

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🎙️ OpenAI and Anthropic Both Reach for the Mic

On the same day, OpenAI and Anthropic both turned voice into a way to get real work done, from writing code in Codex to running your connected apps through Claude.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 24, 2026

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🔓 China's Open Source K3 Changed the Game Forever

Kimi K3 takes #1 in frontend code, lands within three points of GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5, and goes open-weight on July 27. It arrived hours before Xi Jinping made open source China's official AI policy.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 17, 2026

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☀️ The Sun Rises: GPT-5.6 and the Week That Changed AI

OpenAI ships its Sol, Terra, and Luna models and folds Codex and ChatGPT Work into one superapp, on a week when Meta and SpaceX also crashed the AI frontier.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 10, 2026

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🍉 Meta's 'Watermelon' LLM Catches GPT-5.5

Meta's Alexandr Wang says its in-training model, codenamed Watermelon, has matched OpenAI's GPT-5.5, even as Zuckerberg admits the company's AI agents are running late

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 3, 2026

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🏛️ Washington Says No To GPT-5.6 release

The White House asked OpenAI to stagger GPT-5.6's launch to government-approved customers first. The line between voluntary review and a licensing regime is getting thin.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jun 26, 2026

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🔍 Did an ASML Chip Machine Reach China?

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told ASML that one of its EUV chip machines may have slipped into China. The company insists that is impossible, and the standoff is escalating.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jun 19, 2026

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🛠️ Bezos’s Prometheus Bets on Physical AI

Project Prometheus emerged from stealth at a $41 billion valuation, with Bezos as co-CEO and a plan to automate the design and manufacturing of real machines

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jun 12, 2026

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🔁 Claude Starts Building Claude

Anthropic says Claude is already accelerating AI development from inside the lab, while Washington tries to set rules for frontier models before the loop tightens.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jun 5, 2026

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🧠 Claude Learns to Check Itself

Anthropic's Opus 4.8 focuses on agent reliability and self-correction, plus Apple's Siri reset, Anthropic's near-trillion valuation, AI-society stress tests, Google's AI search politics, and the fight over frontier-model oversight

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

May 29, 2026

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Nvidia's AI Factory Boom Hits $81.6B

Nvidia's record quarter shows the AI buildout is still accelerating, plus SpaceX's IPO math, ChatGPT for PowerPoint, a cooler chip breakthrough, and the politics of frontier-model review

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

May 22, 2026