OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra spent 141 hours playing Minecraft :
- Astra had made major progress, building a semi-automatic blaze farm, collecting 6 blaze rods and finding 3 Ender Pearls.
- Then a Creeper destroyed its chest and bed, wiping out its stored gear and spawn point.
- Astra reportedly spent the next several hours farming potatoes instead of continuing its progress.
- It even started treating harmless green objects as potential Creepers.
DeepSeek launched V4.1 Flash :
- 552B total parameters, 8B active for input and 16B for output, using a causal encoder-decoder architecture.
- 77.0 on DeepSWE v1.1, up from 74.2, and 42.3 on Terminal-Bench 4.0, up from 31.2.
- Uses reinforcement learning with self-feedback to build complete projects from scratch, including 3D scenes and playable games.
- Supports a 1M-token context window and visual input. DeepSeek says the update also reduces output length and task execution time.
- Released with MIT-licensed weights on Hugging Face, alongside API, app and website access.
DeepSeek launched V4.1 Flash :
- 552B total parameters, 8B active for input and 16B for output, using a causal encoder-decoder architecture.
- 77.0 on DeepSWE v1.1, up from 74.2, and 42.3 on Terminal-Bench 4.0, up from 31.2.
- Uses reinforcement learning with self-feedback to build complete projects from scratch, including 3D scenes and playable games.
- Supports a 1M-token context window and visual input. DeepSeek says the update also reduces output length and task execution time.
- Released with MIT-licensed weights on Hugging Face, alongside API, app and website access.
DeepSeek launched V4.1 Flash :
- 552B total parameters, 8B active for input and 16B for output, using a causal encoder-decoder architecture.
- 77.0 on DeepSWE v1.1, up from 74.2, and 42.3 on Terminal-Bench 4.0, up from 31.2.
- Uses reinforcement learning with self-feedback to build complete projects from scratch, including 3D scenes and playable games.
- Supports a 1M-token context window and visual input. DeepSeek says the update also reduces output length and task execution time.
- Released with MIT-licensed weights on Hugging Face, alongside API, app and website access.
Big Tech is projected to spend $750B on capex in 2026, on AI infra :
- Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Google are pouring money into data centers, chips and computing capacity.
- That’s up over 80% from $410B in 2025.
- $750B is equivalent to around $5,500 for every U.S. household.
- The scale shows how aggressively tech giants are betting that AI demand will justify massive infrastructure investments.
Big Tech is projected to spend $750B on capex in 2026, on AI infra :
- Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Google are pouring money into data centers, chips and computing capacity.
- That’s up over 80% from $410B in 2025.
- $750B is equivalent to around $5,500 for every U.S. household.
- The scale shows how aggressively tech giants are betting that AI demand will justify massive infrastructure investments.
Big Tech is projected to spend $750B on capex in 2026, on AI infra :
- Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Google are pouring money into data centers, chips and computing capacity.
- That’s up over 80% from $410B in 2025.
- $750B is equivalent to around $5,500 for every U.S. household.
- The scale shows how aggressively tech giants are betting that AI demand will justify massive infrastructure investments.
🇫🇷 France erupts in nationwide unrest as up to 800,000 people take to the streets :
- Protesters rallied against rising living costs, inequality and declining public services, with student grievances over poor school conditions helping fuel the movement.
- France’s Interior Ministry estimated 550,000 demonstrators, while organizers put turnout at 800,000.
- Authorities reported around 1,800 arrests and more than 150 injured police officers following Saturday’s unrest.
- Most demonstrations were peaceful, but violent groups targeted businesses and public buildings as the protests escalated.
🇫🇷 France erupts in nationwide unrest as up to 800,000 people take to the streets :
- Protesters rallied against rising living costs, inequality and declining public services, with student grievances over poor school conditions helping fuel the movement.
- France’s Interior Ministry estimated 550,000 demonstrators, while organizers put turnout at 800,000.
- Authorities reported around 1,800 arrests and more than 150 injured police officers following Saturday’s unrest.
- Most demonstrations were peaceful, but violent groups targeted businesses and public buildings as the protests escalated.
🇫🇷 France erupts in nationwide unrest as up to 800,000 people take to the streets :
- Protesters rallied against rising living costs, inequality and declining public services, with student grievances over poor school conditions helping fuel the movement.
- France’s Interior Ministry estimated 550,000 demonstrators, while organizers put turnout at 800,000.
- Authorities reported around 1,800 arrests and more than 150 injured police officers following Saturday’s unrest.
- Most demonstrations were peaceful, but violent groups targeted businesses and public buildings as the protests escalated.
🇨🇳 China launched 13 ft humanoid robot weighing 1.2 tonnes :
- Built by Beijing-based NeodraDynamics, the robot is called Neo1 and was showcased at the 2026 China International Industry Fair.
- It has a claimed combined lifting capacity of 500 kg (1,102 lbs) across both arms.
- Unlike most humanoids that rely on electric motors, Neo1 uses 39 hydraulic actuators alongside electric drives for heavy-duty movement.
- It's designed for demanding industrial environments, including mining, ports, heavy assembly and hazardous facilities.
🇨🇳 China launched 13 ft humanoid robot weighing 1.2 tonnes :
- Built by Beijing-based NeodraDynamics, the robot is called Neo1 and was showcased at the 2026 China International Industry Fair.
- It has a claimed combined lifting capacity of 500 kg (1,102 lbs) across both arms.
- Unlike most humanoids that rely on electric motors, Neo1 uses 39 hydraulic actuators alongside electric drives for heavy-duty movement.
- It's designed for demanding industrial environments, including mining, ports, heavy assembly and hazardous facilities.
🇨🇳 China launched 13 ft humanoid robot weighing 1.2 tonnes :
- Built by Beijing-based NeodraDynamics, the robot is called Neo1 and was showcased at the 2026 China International Industry Fair.
- It has a claimed combined lifting capacity of 500 kg (1,102 lbs) across both arms.
- Unlike most humanoids that rely on electric motors, Neo1 uses 39 hydraulic actuators alongside electric drives for heavy-duty movement.
- It's designed for demanding industrial environments, including mining, ports, heavy assembly and hazardous facilities.
Google launched Gemini 4 Argon :
- #1 on the Vals Index, according to Google, across professional tasks including finance, coding, legal and tax work.
- Features a 1 million-token context window and can tackle complex tasks across large codebases.
- Google says it helped increase agentic code submissions by 35% while reducing code rollbacks by nearly a third.
- Researchers used Argon to accelerate quantum chemistry simulations, identify rare-disease clues and design enzymes later validated in lab tests.
- Launch pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through November 30.
Google launched Gemini 4 Argon :
- #1 on the Vals Index, according to Google, across professional tasks including finance, coding, legal and tax work.
- Features a 1 million-token context window and can tackle complex tasks across large codebases.
- Google says it helped increase agentic code submissions by 35% while reducing code rollbacks by nearly a third.
- Researchers used Argon to accelerate quantum chemistry simulations, identify rare-disease clues and design enzymes later validated in lab tests.
- Launch pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through November 30.
Google launched Gemini 4 Argon :
- #1 on the Vals Index, according to Google, across professional tasks including finance, coding, legal and tax work.
- Features a 1 million-token context window and can tackle complex tasks across large codebases.
- Google says it helped increase agentic code submissions by 35% while reducing code rollbacks by nearly a third.
- Researchers used Argon to accelerate quantum chemistry simulations, identify rare-disease clues and design enzymes later validated in lab tests.
- Launch pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through November 30.
🇨🇳 China arrests a professor accused of running Breaking Bad drug operation :
- The alleged network spanned China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, producing chemicals used to manufacture etomidate, a drug linked to illegal “zombie vapes.”
- Investigators say the professor designed the production process and helped set up covert labs across five Chinese cities.
- Authorities arrested 71 suspects and seized 73 kg of etomidate, five tonnes of active ingredients and laboratory equipment.
- The investigation began in 2024 after police spotted suspicious purchases of precursor chemicals at a pharmaceutical company.
🇨🇳 China arrests a professor accused of running Breaking Bad drug operation :
- The alleged network spanned China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, producing chemicals used to manufacture etomidate, a drug linked to illegal “zombie vapes.”
- Investigators say the professor designed the production process and helped set up covert labs across five Chinese cities.
- Authorities arrested 71 suspects and seized 73 kg of etomidate, five tonnes of active ingredients and laboratory equipment.
- The investigation began in 2024 after police spotted suspicious purchases of precursor chemicals at a pharmaceutical company.
Palantir CTO claims researchers are smoking because AI will cure cancer :
- Shyam Sankar made the claim during a CBS Face the Nation interview.
- His explanation is researchers are signaling their confidence that AI will advance medicine enough to eliminate smoking-related cancer risks.
- Sankar provided no names or evidence to support the claim.
- He called the broader faith in AI a form of “mass psychosis” and “social delusion.”
Palantir CTO claims researchers are smoking because AI will cure cancer :
- Shyam Sankar made the claim during a CBS Face the Nation interview.
- His explanation is researchers are signaling their confidence that AI will advance medicine enough to eliminate smoking-related cancer risks.
- Sankar provided no names or evidence to support the claim.
- He called the broader faith in AI a form of “mass psychosis” and “social delusion.”
Palantir CTO claims researchers are smoking because AI will cure cancer :
- Shyam Sankar made the claim during a CBS Face the Nation interview.
- His explanation is researchers are signaling their confidence that AI will advance medicine enough to eliminate smoking-related cancer risks.
- Sankar provided no names or evidence to support the claim.
- He called the broader faith in AI a form of “mass psychosis” and “social delusion.”