What's New in AI

Alibaba's Apsara keynote named four Qwen 4 tiers and shipped no spec sheet: no context window, no API id, no price, no release date, no weights, no benchmark.

Amazon cut Meta's Muse agent off from shopping its site on terms-of-service grounds — after the Ninth Circuit threw out the same argument against Perplexity.

One analyst's 65-day logs say Anthropic's Fable 5 served far fewer thinking tokens in August than in July. No vendor admission, no raw data, no re-run.

Google open-sourced AX, a declarative orchestrator for agent fleets, and Hacker News spent a day arguing over the Kubernetes cluster its quickstart requires.

Grok 4.7 undercuts the frontier on price and speed, but the same coding benchmark reads 38% at xAI and 26% at the independent evaluator Artificial Analysis.

Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo-V2.6 and streamed six days of its RL run: 30 steps, $3.5M, and a public log that carries the OOMs. We test the transparency claim.

GPT-6 Astra decoded a 1918 ADFGVX message whose key entered service twelve days later. The cross-check is a ship's log, and nobody else has reproduced it.

A researcher's teardown traces how one year-long OpenAI cookie carries your ChatGPT identity onto advertisers' websites, and why it is filed as analytics.

Qwen-Image-2.1 unifies image generation and editing with native transparency and 10 reference images, but a non-commercial licence and no independent evals.

Rumored Radeon RX 10800 XT leaks checked: release date, price and specs, the conflicting 15-25% and 60% claims, and why AMD has announced nothing at all.