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Imtiaz Adam CS #AI Postgrad |#Strategy #MachineLearning RSI Evolutionary Neurosymbolic |#RL #Agentic | #LLM Liberal | MBA alum @morganstanley @LBS @Columbia_Biz

[AI @DeepLearn007]

By circa 2035 I envisage advanced AI-enabled robots scaling across manufacturing, retail (warehousing), military and security.

[Unitree @UnitreeRobotics]

Unitree Introducing: H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian🤖
Powerful performance to serve and guard you, with a maximum endurance of approximately 8 hours.
Please use the robot safely and in a friendly manner.

[AI @DeepLearn007]

@KobeissiLetter @franersees Ageing populations in OECD, overhang from financial crisis, Brexit, Covid, lack of vision by politicians to invest in infrastructure to drive growth apart from China and UAE.

[Ornith @ornith_]

Aloha!🌺 Meet Ornith-1.5-122B: No Tradeoff Between Strong and Fast

Stronger. Faster. Leaner. Ornith-1.5-122B delivers frontier-level capabilities with exceptional inference efficiency. With superior instruction following, stronger task decomposition, and deeper understanding of real-world workflows, it achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models of comparable size, while running on a single NVIDIA DGX card!!

Open weights under the MIT license.
Coding
✅SWE-bench Verified: 0.845
✅TB2.1: 0.813
✅CyberGym: 0.800
✅NL2Repo: 0.512
Agentic
✅HLE: 0.446
✅BrowseComp: 0.785
✅MCP-Atlas: 0.746
✅Toolathlon: 0.708

🤗Hugging Face: https://t.co/w1hD6rra1o
We can’t wait to see what you build with Ornith-1.5-122B.

[ollama @ollama]

Ornith 1.5 122B is available on Ollama! Run it all locally on your device.

ollama run ornith-1.5:122b

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration.

Musk has spoken to Putin several times. He has used thousands of responses to boost the reach, following and monetization income of pro-Russian accounts on X making him the prime orchestrator of Russia's propaganda effort in the West.

There can be no doubt that Musk is collaborating with Putin to destroy democracy in order to bring about the kind of technofascist dictatorship advocated by Thiel's 'house philosopher' Curtis Yarvin, and forecast in "The Sovereign Individual" for which Thiel wrote the preface.

Putin doubtless flattered Musk as being one of the handful of individuals capable of ensuring the long term survival of humanity, and played on Musk's rage against wokeness which he blames for his trans son changing gender.
https://t.co/ohpBIXZ715

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: US oil prices rebound on reports stating that other reports claiming the US and Iran have reached a deal are false.

We now have reports on reports that are moving hundreds of billions of dollars in market cap.

[vLLM @vllm_project]

Grateful to @deepseek_ai for releasing DeepInfer, initially built primarily on @vllm_project, under Apache 2.0 and crediting the open-source community!

We've worked hard on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash inference efficiency and will keep improving with ideas from DeepInfer! Stay tuned 🙌

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

If this is accurate, Elon lied about not having control over Starshield, and he lied about the administration making the decision.

More importantly, why is a private citizen even *able* to make decisions that could hinder US military operations?

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine https://t.co/bbLQBC4sbA

[AI @DeepLearn007]

@Zenox242551 We’re still learning. This is ground breaking research into consciousness and the workings of the brain

[AI @DeepLearn007]

Amazing research: “…your brain switches between a conscious and an unconscious mode ~15 times every second. Consciousness may depend not on where in the brain activity occurs but when.”

[Janis Hesse @HesseJanis]

Very excited to share the most important discovery of my career yet: your brain switches between a conscious and an unconscious mode ~15 times every second. Consciousness may depend not on where in the brain activity occurs but when.
Find out more below.
https://t.co/23dyMGnaLX

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’ve acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharma teams coordinate the complex process of drug development.

Together, we’ll build on Rosalind, our AI models and tools for life sciences research, to streamline those operations and help new treatments reach patients sooner.

Welcome @ashokaraj_ and team!

https://t.co/vi51OhznQn

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

US electricity prices are skyrocketing.

The average price of US residential electricity has risen +11% since January 2025, to 19.6 cents per kilowatt-hour in August 2026, near an all-time high.

Average prices during the first 8 months of 2026 were +40% higher than in the same period of 2019.

The largest increase in residential electricity prices over this period was in Maine, at +90%, followed by California and New York, at nearly +70%.

This comes as the AI boom is intensifying electricity demand, with data centers requiring enormous amounts of electricity to power thousands of chips and cooling systems.

A 1-gigawatt data center can consume as much electricity as 800,000 homes.

As a result, wholesale electricity prices in areas near significant data center activity surged by as much as +267% between 2020 and 2025.

The AI revolution is driving a surge in electricity demand, and households are increasingly feeling the cost.

[433 @433]

🚨 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋: 𝐏𝐒𝐆 & 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐀 𝐗𝐈 👀

𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀 𝐇𝐔𝐆𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐇 😍🥵

[Z.ai @Zai_org]

Introducing GLM-Legal

Built on GLM-5.3-Flash, GLM-Legal matches frontier models on mainstream legal benchmarks.

Designed for real legal workflows: contract review, evidence analysis, compliance, and more.

Tech Blog: https://t.co/xOzFqKNyqD
Apply for API Access: https://t.co/dKuoDRIKKz
Try AutoClaw: https://t.co/aGEG5HqTTb

[Artificial Analysis @ArtificialAnlys]

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash scores 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 13 points higher than MiniMax-M3 and less than half the cost per task. It scores level with GLM-5.3-Flash but behind DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is @MiniMax_AI's new Flash reasoning model, which we benchmarked at its max effort setting. It scores 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, level with GLM-5.3-Flash (max, 42), just ahead of Gemini 3.8 Flash (high, 41), and behind DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max, 45)

Key takeaways:
➤ Complex reasoning improved substantially compared to M3: MiniMax-M3.1-Flash scores 48% on Humanity's Last Exam, ahead of GLM-5.3-Flash (max, 40%) and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max, 43%), and level with Gemini 3.8 Flash (high, 48%). On CritPt it scores 22%, ahead of GLM-5.3-Flash (15%) and Gemini 3.8 Flash (18%) and just behind DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (24%). These are up from MiniMax-M3 which scored 39% and 4% respectively

➤ Fewer output tokens, lower cost per task: MiniMax-M3.1-Flash used ~189M output tokens to run the Intelligence Index, considerably fewer than GLM-5.3-Flash (max, ~324M), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max, ~224M) and Gemini 3.8 Flash (high, ~334M). Combined with pricing of $0.15/$0.60 per 1M input/output tokens, this brings its cost to ~$0.22 per Intelligence Index task, vs ~$0.28 for GLM-5.3-Flash, ~$0.26 for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and ~$1.24 for Gemini 3.8 Flash, and less than half MiniMax-M3's ~$0.51

➤ High AA-Omniscience accuracy, offset by a high hallucination rate: MiniMax-M3.1-Flash answers 56% of questions correctly on AA-Omniscience, our benchmark measuring factual recall and hallucination, vs 28% for GLM-5.3-Flash (max) and 43% for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max). It attempts almost every question, resulting in a hallucination rate of 93% and an overall score of 16 on AA-Omniscience

Key model details:

➤ Context window: 1M tokens

➤ Multimodality: Text and image input, text output

➤ Pricing: $0.15/$0.60 per 1M input/output tokens, with cached input at $0.015/M

➤ Availability: MiniMax first-party API, with MiniMax announcing an open weights release on October 23rd

➤ Licensing: Closed weights currently, with MiniMax announcing a weights release on October 23rd

[SemiAnalysis @SemiAnalysis_]

GLM 5.3’s biggest leap came from post-training alone.

“GLM 5.3 was built entirely by post-training the previous model. For me, that was a wake-up call.”

“Post-training is far more GPU-efficient than pre-training from scratch. Plenty of companies can’t afford to train a model from scratch, but they have proprietary data. They can post-train themselves and beat some of the closed models.”

“There’s still so much juice left to squeeze from post-training. We compared GLM 5.3’s cyber capabilities with 5.2, and it’s a night and day difference. That’s all just post-training.”

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New on our Science Blog: designing protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins.

Scorpions sting about 1.2m people every year, and antivenoms are often costly or in short supply. Claude has made an early step toward finding new treatments.

https://t.co/l6LgdEqM7I

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

The US shipped 147 bcm of LNG last year, 1/3 more than Qatar.

Number 2 on this list has been hit hard since March.

Qatar exported 111 bcm in 2025, per the Energy Institute.

Then Iran struck Ras Laffan, and Hormuz closed behind it.

Qatar used to supply about 45% of India’s LNG.
In September it was about 4%.

The US already supplied 93% of global LNG export growth last year.
This year it’s carrying the market.

The buyers are China at 91 bcm, Japan at 89 and South Korea at 63. They’re bidding against Europe, whose storage is only 74.5% full.

Japan’s power price just hit a four-year high.

Next year’s list will look very different.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

These are defensive weapons that Europeans have paid for

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia.

I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.