What's New in AI

X says roughly 200 suspected Chinese bot accounts tried to amplify US opposition to AI data centers. We separate foreign influence from the organic backlash.

Zhipu AI released GLM-5.3's full open weights: a 744B MoE whose post-training-only gains include 'emergent' cyber skills and doubled ExploitBench scores.

OpenAI is cutting off Cursor's access to its models on November 12 after SpaceX bought its parent. We break down the stated reason and the real business logic.

Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard lets AI agents run lab and factory equipment. A deep dive into the mechanics, the safety gap, and the adoption question.

Engram-style N-gram tables won't run 1T-parameter models on one server. They offload memorized patterns to SSD — we break down the claim and the real gains.

llama.cpp merged Qwen3.8-Flash-Next support within a day of the model's release — but the 173GB FP8 checkpoint means 'local' still means a serious machine.

The RTX 5090 lists for $5,099 on Amazon while NVIDIA still advertises a $1,999 MSRP. We trace how the memory crunch turned a flagship GPU into an AI-era luxury.

A r/LocalLLaMA meme about the Grim Reaper at the DDR4 door went viral as surging DRAM prices reach used server RAM, the last cheap memory for local LLMs.

Sam Altman told TIME that OpenAI will have an internal system he calls AGI by the end of 2026, a claim many in the AI community dismiss as IPO marketing.

In a Semafor interview, Bill Gates called AI's advance 'crazy' and 'insane,' warned of mass job loss and bioterrorism — and flipped his long-held optimism.