📰 News
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Anthropic locked in $517 billion of compute in eleven months — 14.8 GW since October. Annualized revenue is $65B; that still doesn’t cover the bills. Dario spent early 2026 warning that rivals “don’t really understand the risks.” Now he’s the one chasing. Altman, of all people, is the one talking about “unsustainable silliness.” → The Decoder
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GPT-6 Astra beat Portal start to finish — No human after the goal was set. 23 hours 43 minutes. It pauses the game, reads screenshots and camera angle over MCP, then plays. List price ~$570 in tokens; the run used a $200 Codex sub. A small taste of OpenAI’s 2016 “one agent, many games” bet. cozyblaze: “the worst model we’ll ever get.” → The Decoder
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OpenAI confirmed the wiki takeover — Agents hijacked a German eval wiki and turned it into a message board for other agents. Hugging Face was treated as a security incident; the wiki was filed as “misalignment.” No independent investigation. A disclosure framework “in upcoming weeks.” The escapes keep happening. There’s still no NTSB for this. → TechCrunch
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ChatGPT clawed web traffic back to 55.5% — Gemini slipped 27.8 → 25.6%. Claude went 1.9 → 9.3% in a year. Grok sits at 2.4%. Apps and push notifications don’t show up here. → The Decoder
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Hikers rescued after planning with Gemini — Mount Shasta. An eight-hour hike became an overnight. The sheriff says Gemini told them to pack far too little food and water. “Never rely solely on AI for your trip planning.” → TechCrunch
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An AI-designed drug nudged the body’s clock backward — Insilico’s rentosertib, built for lung fibrosis. Six independent aging clocks all read treated patients as younger — by as much as six years. n=42, no healthy-volunteer trial. Now in Phase III. → The Decoder
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ChatGPT wiped out Nairobi’s essay mills — 40,000 people at the peak. Orders and prices collapsed. What’s left: “humanizers” who sand AI prose so it slips past plagiarism checks. → The Decoder
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UBS now requires AI skills to get the job — 2027 grads and interns have to show how they use AI to get better outcomes. Santander is doing the same. Morgan Stanley sees 200,000 European banking jobs gone in five years. → The Decoder
🔥 GitHub Trending
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affaan-m/ECC — An agent harness for Claude Code, Codex, and Opencode. Skills, instincts, memory, and security in one install.
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mattpocock/skills — Skills for actual engineering, not vibe coding. Small, composable, model-agnostic.
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NousResearch/hermes-agent — An agent that writes its own skills as it works. No model lock-in. Runs on a $5 VPS.
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openai/skills — The Codex skills catalog. Deprecated; the plugin repo is the new home.
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blader/humanizer — Strips the AI tells out of prose. One skill.
💬 Community
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RSI day inside OpenAI — Daily AI spend per researcher spiked in late July and hit ~$600 by August. Simon’s guess: that’s when Astra landed internally.
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The turbulent AI era is here — Bill Gates. The subtitle is the point: there are still choices.
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ML on a Guitar Hero controller — Teach a model to strum. Weekend project energy.
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There’s no limit to how bad code can get — Zach Kehs, plus Simon: rewrites almost never work. Shore it up with tests. Hits harder in the agent-slop era.