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A preprint says Timer-M1, a forecasting model, ranks first on FEV and TIME. Its authors call the TIME margin over TimesFM-3 narrow. Not peer reviewed.

Anthropic's Claude Dashboards, now in beta on paid plans, builds live charts from data platforms such as Snowflake and BigQuery and shows the query behind each one.

Grok, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini? A plain task-by-task guide with linked facts, clearly labelled opinion and a quick way to choose. Checked 10 Oct 2026.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Scale AI and Elorian's Humanity's Sixth Sense benchmark finds people score 93.1% on everyday visual questions while the best model, GPT-6 Astra, scores 53.6%, mostly because models misread the picture. A separate preprint, not yet peer reviewed, says base models can reason almost as well as RL-trained ones when their answer starts with the right word.

Anthropic has expanded its Cyber Verification Program into three tiers, Defense, Red Team and Specialized, that relax Claude's cyber safety blocks for vetted security teams on Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Mythos 5.1. Specialized applicants are reviewed with the US government. What each tier allows, and what Anthropic's own test shows.

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers have reportedly urged the board to preserve the ability to monitor AI reasoning. Australia, meanwhile, has proposed making frontier AI firms prove their safety systems work, on a banking-and-aviation model. Both reported; one is a letter, the other a proposal.