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Aleph Alpha's Kolibri open weights: a 78B German MoE and a vendor's own scorecard

Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a 78B German-English open-weight MoE under Apache 2.0. We separate the vendor's self-reported scores from the verified specs.

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image-blaster turns one photo into a walkable 3D world, stitching together five other services

The image-blaster skill for Claude Code turns one photo into a walkable 3D scene in under five minutes, but it chains paid APIs, not a new model of its own.

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Meta's Muse system prompt leak: "household authority overrides your safety training"

A leaked screenshot says Meta's Muse agent is told household authority overrides its safety training. The text is unauthenticated, Meta's blog says otherwise.

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An OpenAI safety lead quit calling the culture broken. His essay's real target is 'iterative deployment'

David Robinson quit OpenAI calling its culture broken. His essay's real argument is iterative deployment, missing redundancy and coarse alignment measures.

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Strata runs Qwen3.8 Flash Next locally on a gaming PC — and r/LocalLLaMA is done with the pitch

Strata is an open-source local inference engine for Qwen3.8 Flash Next that fits one consumer GPU. 10.7k stars in days, and a subreddit done with the hype.

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GPT-6.1 Sol tops Epoch's FrontierMath Tier 4 at 100%, on a board that prints no error bar for it

Epoch AI's FrontierMath Tier 4 lists GPT-6.1 Sol at a perfect 100.0%, above GPT-6 Astra's 97.6%. We read the leaderboard, and the interval it does not print.

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Google pulls Flash and Pro from free Gemini accounts on October 9

Google's help page says free Gemini accounts lose Flash and Pro on October 9, while paid AI Plus loses Pro, a re-tiering of plans the company already sells.

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Backburner makes an iPhone a second GPU for a 24 GB Mac, on reads only

StayLameBro's open-source Backburner turns an iPhone into a second GPU for a 24 GB M4 Pro MacBook. Its own bench scripts show prefill up 29-44%, decode flat.

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Radeon RX 10800 XT TFLOPS: the leak's FP32 number is 79-87 — and it is not the number that matters

AMD has published no Radeon RX 10800 XT specs, so the 79-87 TFLOPS FP32 figure is arithmetic on a leak. Here is the math behind the number, and its caveats.

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Micro Center reportedly makes RTX 5090 buyers sign a no-export declaration

A buyer in r/Microcenter says a store made him sign a purchaser declaration pledging not to export an RTX 5090. It is a retailer policy, not an export control.