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OpenAI Adds Composer Predictions to Codex for Pro Users, and Lets Dots Hand Work to Codex
OpenAI says Codex can now suggest your next message (beta, Pro), and ChatGPT dots can be created on a phone and start work in Codex. What is confirmed, and what is a staff post.
How to Tell if an AI Answer Is Made Up: 5-Minute Checklist
Spot a made-up AI answer in 5 minutes: a numbered checklist covering sources, numbers, dates and cross-checks, plus what to do when you find a mistake.
Underdog’s Saluki 27B Shrinks Qwen3.8-27B to 7.89 GB: Tool Calling Up on Its Own Test, Competition Maths Down
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.
USA Today and 13 Sister Companies Sue OpenAI: What the Complaint Alleges
On 8 October 2026, USA Today Co. and 13 affiliated companies, covering 19 publications, filed a copyright lawsuit against seven OpenAI entities in federal court in New York, seeking "damages in excess of $250 million". The filing is confirmed; everything in it is the publishers' allegation. Here is what they claim, and what happens to such cases procedurally.
Two Open Models From 8 October: a Fast Coding Agent and a Gene Finder
JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, a small open model for coding agents, and Hugging Face has released Carbon-A, a 1.2B-parameter model that predicts protein-coding regions in DNA, plus a database of 566 million predicted loci. What each does, and which numbers are the developers' own.
AI Research Tools: TasteVal Measures “Research Taste”, Karotte Targets Reward Hacking and Zephon Fixes Data Order
A new benchmark, TasteVal, says the best AI model now reaches expert-level results on eight AI research tasks with 2.3 times less compute, though its authors list reasons that may overstate progress. Preference Model has open-sourced Karotte, a framework for training environments that are harder to game, and DatologyAI has released Zephon, a data loader that keeps experiments repeatable when the GPU count changes. What each claims, and who measured it.
Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic: AWS Says Its Voice AI Now Thinks and Answers Faster
AWS has made Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, its latest speech-to-speech model for real-time voice agents, generally available. The company says it reasons better, follows instructions better and responds faster, though it has published no outside benchmarks.
Synthetic Data: The Complete Guide to AI’s Secret Weapon in 2026
The $285 Billion Secret: How Fake Data Is Powering Real AIDate: April 23, 2026
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AI, Machine Learning, and Foundation Models: A Practical Guide to the New Hierarchy
From ELIZA to ChatGPT: Understanding how we got here and where we are going.Table of contentsThe Hierarchy That Explains EverythingThe Foundation: Machine LearningThe Neural Revolution: Deep LearningThe...
FluxAI Just Launched Beaver and Voice Desk — The Privacy-First AI That Enterprises Have Been Waiting For
The Meeting Tool That Never Records You
FluxAI just dropped two products that solve problems most AI companies pretend don't exist: a meeting note-taker that never records your...
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