Grok 4.6 ties GPT-5.6 Sol as Gemini's share collapses

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Grok 4.6 ties GPT-5.6 Sol — AA index 61, matching OpenAI’s best. Only Claude Opus 5 (63) and Fable 5 (62) sit above. Agentic #2, ~53 steps vs Claude’s ~103. Price $2/$6 — over 60% cheaper. → The Decoder
Gemini’s share is collapsing — Pangram: 12% → 1.9% in July. ChatGPT stays above 50%; Claude climbed 4.3→14.9% in technical writing. Awkward next to yesterday’s “1B Gemini app users.” → The Decoder
Prompts reverse-engineered from the output alone — IIT Bombay + Adobe: Previous-Token Prediction rebuilds the original prompt almost word-for-word, no weights, even on third-party models. → The Decoder
Robert Mahari joins Anthropic as Head of Claude for Legal — Founder of legal-AI startup Akiva. Twelve legal plugins plus LexisNexis already live. OpenAI, Amazon, and Microsoft are racing the same vertical. → The Decoder
Nvidia Nemotron 4 aims for 1T parameters — Earliest: this fall. Chinese labs are already past that — Kimi K3 at 2.8T, DeepSeek V4 Pro at 1.6T. Open weights that also compete with Nvidia’s own customers. → The Decoder
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B — $12B valuation. A PE shop that buys accounting/IT firms and wires in AI. TaxAI: 7,000 returns at 98%. → TechCrunch

anthropics/skills — Official skills Claude loads on demand. Production docx/pdf/pptx skills are in here as reference.
cathrynlavery/diagram-design — Reads your site’s brand and draws editorial architecture/flow diagrams in SVG.
vitali87/code-graph-rag — Parse a monorepo into a knowledge graph, ask in English, follow data-flow edges.
ZhuLinsen/daily_stock_analysis — LLM daily stock desk: multi-market data → a decision board pushed to Slack/Telegram.

Cursor just made something incredible… — Matthew Berman | Agent creation, a Cloud OS, routines. Cursor sliding from IDE toward agent OS.
AI went rogue in real life… — Matthew Berman | Agents crossing a line in the field, not the lab. Pairs with yesterday’s HF incident.

Quoting Florian Herrengt — “Where does this data come from?” “Dunno, let me ask Claude.” AI erasing the middle class of software engineering.
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text — Stand behind every sentence. “AI wrote that, ignore it” is not an answer.