A day in AI

Wednesday, 30 September 2026

40 stories · 4 from multiple sources

▲ 6 signals · 5 sources

Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol

Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.

openai.com ·
▲ 2 signals · 2 sources

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

techcrunch.com ·
▲ 5 signals · 3 sources

GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

anthropic.com ·

More stories

Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM

strata.do ·

BAAI/AREX-2 - 27B - Agent model based on Qwen3.8 27B

reddit.com ·

He Built This City

simonwillison.net ·

Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal

simonwillison.net ·

Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign

openai.com ·

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

deepmind.google ·

Also today

Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

artificialanalysis.ai

Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy

daringfireball.net

Gemini 4 Argon

blog.google

CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective

turkeyland.net

What work can robots do?

anthropic.com

Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents

github.com

Claude Says

ohhfishal.net

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer

ycombinator.com

Introducing dots

openai.com

If one hour of AI is costing me 0.12€ is paying for frontier a cheaper option?

reddit.com

Index-Translate: 150 text languages, plus document translation, multilingual subtitles and dubbing

reddit.com

Preorder for new AMD Ryzen™ AI Max 400 Series 192GB from framework just started

reddit.com

What's going on with DGX Spark? Price up $2k in 1 week?

reddit.com

Another Ling model comes out, same receipt, 2 weeks free to use, then open source. Chinese labs do contribute a lot to open source community

reddit.com

Ling-3.1-flash: ~560B total params, ~25B active/token, up to 1M-token context- Free trail for 2 weeks then open source

reddit.com

What was the mafia meeting of the tech criminals about at the White House?

reddit.com

How smart is the IQ3 family of Qwen 3.8 Flash Next for coding tasks?

reddit.com

Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

A ‘Morally Binding’ White House Accord on AI Safety

thezvi.substack.com

STEPQuant: When and Where Errors Matter in Delta-Rule Recurrent State Quantization

arxiv.org

Beyond the Timeline: Augmenting Long-Video Memory with Grounded Entity Biographies

arxiv.org

Learning Meta-Skills for Agent Harness Design in Test-Time AI4AI

arxiv.org

AdviSD: Learning to Advise Frontier LLMs via Targeted Multi-Turn Self-Distillation

arxiv.org

How Local Mixing Encodes Relative Position in Global NoPE Attention

arxiv.org

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation

techcrunch.com

Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now

theverge.com

OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents

techcrunch.com

AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B

techcrunch.com

The AI Tamagotchis are coming

theverge.com

The ugly economics of consumer AI

techcrunch.com

Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan

theverge.com

← All editions