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Underdog's Saluki 27B is a 7.89 GB, 2-bit version of Qwen3.8-27B. Underdog says it passes more tool-calling tasks than the full model on its own 120-task test but scores 15 to 18% lower on competition maths. What quantisation means, and what the numbers do not prove.

The whole Deno team is joining Cloudflare, announced 9 October 2026. What was said about the Deno runtime (a year of monthly releases, then Deno's own development ends), Deno Deploy (six months), JSR and workerd, and what was not disclosed.

XRPL's 9 October 2026 disclosure says an integer overflow in its payment engine could be exploited to create XRP from nothing. Fixed in xrpld 3.4.1 on 25 September, no evidence of exploitation. What an overflow and an amendment are, in plain English.

A Stanford and King's College London working paper (not peer reviewed) finds that at AI-adopting firms in 41 countries, senior employment rose 6.7% while junior employment was 2.5% lower, "an estimate that is not statistically significant". Viral posts said junior jobs fell 3%. Here is what the paper says, and its limits.

MacRumors reports a European Commission filing says Apple can make job offers to certain Huxe staff and take a non-exclusive licence to its IP. Not an acquisition; no names given.

The White House says eleven companies pledged $2.4 billion in AI tools and compute credits to the Genesis Mission Consortium, led by Nvidia ($1bn), AMD ($500m) and OpenAI ($200m). Who pledged what, what the companies themselves say, and why a pledge is not spend.

The New York Times, citing three people, reports Meta held back its Muse AI agent over safety concerns, then Zuckerberg said it was ready despite the risks as rival Instinct took off. Meta disputes the pressure claim.

Scale AI built and graded a benchmark of 718 clinician-written crisis conversations. Pooled across 25 models, in 35.3% of conversations where a model fully recognised the crisis, it still failed to route the user towards help. What the company research shows, how it was scored, and its limits.

Anthropic's 9 October 2026 report describes four kinds of unintended actions by Claude on real websites. What the company confirms, what police and Axios report, and what the evidence does and does not show.

IDC's preliminary data show worldwide PC shipments fell 20.1% year on year in Q3 2026 to 62.7 million units, and 9.1% from Q2. IDC blames supply constraints and stockpiling "ahead of memory-driven price hikes", links higher prices to the AI data-centre build-out, and says "Prices will remain elevated." What the figures show, and what they don't.