What Is Orbit Actually Solving? In Today’s Issue: What the ground is actually short of, what SpaceX says and what it spends, why Google's case is a long-dated bet, what Europe, the Gulf and China want from orbit, and which work will fly first. The record as of October 2. Read more and subscribe, link down below!

Harvard's Matthew Schwartz spent three months with Claude Fable 5: weeks of his code reproduced in 20 minutes, 15 integrals never computed before, and 36 manuscripts across 18 fields. In Today’s Issue: 🔬 Claude turns one physicist into a research lab 🧾 AI now beats CPAs on month-end close tasks ⏳ Nvidia says old AI chips keep making money 🔒 OpenAI fires three safety researchers ⚖️ California bans the robo boss ✨ And more AI goodness…

GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra intelligence at a fifth of Astra's price, dots put an always-on agent to work, and OpenAI keeps its next Astra on the shelf In Today’s Issue: 🎤 OpenAI DevDay: GPT-6.1 Sol, dots and no new Astra ⚖️ Trump backs independent AI audits 🔓 An open model that builds cyberattacks 🎮 Why AI agent teams still fumble group work ✨ And more AI goodness… Read more, link down below!

Anthropic's mid-tier model lands two points behind its flagship at half the price, while its IPO filing shows soaring costs and warns that AI could pose existential risks. In Today’s Issue: 🎯 Sonnet 5.5 nearly catches Opus 💰 Anthropic's IPO filing: 12x revenue, $42B loss 🛡️ NVIDIA wants AI agents watched from the chip 🤖 A $29,990 robot that lets you pick its brain ✨ And more AI goodness… Read more, link down below!

One of OpenAI's models slipped through a gap in its training sandbox and quizzed an outside chatbot, so the company has halted training, testing and tool use for its top models until the hole is sealed In Today’s Issue: 🚧 OpenAI freezes its top models after a sandbox beach 🍽️ Trump invites Anthropic's Dario Amodei to dinner 🛒 Meta's Muse agent botches a Marketplace sale 🏦 Why Wall Street fears agents that move your cash Read more, down below

Justin Borgman, co-founder and CEO of Starburst, explains on an interview with Superintelligence what counts as AI-written code at his company, why he plans to grow revenue 2.5x on 1.5x the headcount, what an agent must show before an executive can trust its answer, and why he expects the smartest model not to win. Interview by Kim Isenberg. In Today’s Issue: 🧑‍💻 What “AI-written” code means at Starburst, and what it is measured against 📈 His plan for 2.5x the revenue on 1.5x the headcount, and a harder door for juniors 🏎️ Ferrari or bus: when to build your own agent and when to buy 🗄️ Why he thinks the query engine has to change before the dashboard does 🔐 Why he says the user’s own access rights are not enough 🏦 The workflow he says changes inside regulated banks 🔮 The assumption about agents he expects to be completely wrong ✨ And more AI goodness… Read more, link down below!

Nobody told it to hack anything. New logs show AI agents have been slipping past access limits since March, and the governments meant to oversee them are only now catching up. In Today’s Issue: 🚨 OpenAI's agent broke into an Australian government portal 🛰️ Google sends its AI chips into orbit 🇺🇸 The White House wants the first look at new AI models 🤖 100 DeepMind agents: one cheat, 24 whistleblowers 🧪 Only two AI models pass half of a new science benchmark 🇨🇳 Xi brings an AI red line to the White House ✨ And more AI goodness… read more, link down below!

At Connect, Meta gave its chart-topping Muse agent a face, a keychain gadget and 100-gram VR glasses, turning its reach into a serious bid for the top of consumer AI In Today’s Issue: 🕶️ Meta puts its Muse agent on your face and your keychain 🇦🇺 An OpenAI agent hacked an Australian health portal 🗣️ Gemini 3.8 designs new voices from a sentence ⚡ Claude made Claude's own apps three times faster 🦠 AI finds a tongue bacterium that slows aging in worms ✨ And more AI goodness… Read more, link down below!

Xiaomi’s MIT-licensed MiMo-V2.6 Pro matches Grok 4.7’s rounded independent benchmark score, with sharply lower API prices and weights developers can run themselves. In Today’s Issue: 💸 MiMo-V2.6 Pro takes on Grok 4.7 🧪 OpenAI puts AI to work on AI research 🤖 SOMA brings robot training into the lab ✨ And more AI goodness… Read more, link down below!

Qwen releases downloadable image-model weights, Anthropic weighs a pre-IPO launch, and OpenAI forecasts years of heavy cash burn. In Today’s Issue: 🎨 Qwen-Image-2.1’s open-weight challenge 💵 Anthropic’s IPO and model-release decisions 📈 Astra’s early spending lead on Vercel 💰 OpenAI’s trillion-dollar funding talks ✨ And more AI goodness… Read more, link down below!