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Pi 1.0: the minimal agent harness ships its 1.0

Earendil shipped Pi 1.0: 111k GitHub stars, Codemode for MCP and Jev-class deciders, and Pi Durable for long-running agents. The minimal-harness counterpoint.

Oct 02, 2026

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OpenAI fired its safety staff the week it shelved Astra

OpenAI terminated three members of its safety org, WSJ reports, for sharing an internal document with an outside evaluator. No statement from them exists yet.

Oct 02, 2026

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Amazon wants to sell $8B of its Nvidia chips to investors

Amazon is in talks to move $8B of installed chips into a fund investors own and lease back. The mechanics, the Lucent precedent, and the counterarguments.

Oct 02, 2026

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Cloudflare ships Clef, an open decision model with pictures

Cloudflare open-sourced Clef: a 27B scoring head on a frozen Qwen3.8-27B that scores answer sets, takes images, and returns probabilities in 209 ms.

Oct 02, 2026

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GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches Astra at $2/$10 per million

GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches the flagship at a fifth of the price: $2 in, $10 out, cached input halved. What the collapse does to the local hardware math.

Oct 01, 2026

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Kev: an open decision-model family you can train yourself

Kev is an open decision-model family (0.8B to 9B) whose training recipe ships: retrain on your categories in 20 minutes on one H100, run on hardware you own.

Sep 30, 2026

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DeepSeek Harness: the plugin agent runtime, 239k stars later

DeepSeek open-sourced its agent runtime: the Cordis plugin core, 92,000 stars in a day, a CVSS 9.4 sandbox escape three weeks in, and the local-hardware fit.

Sep 30, 2026

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Ollama 0.35 ships the Jev API locally: pull Nimble or Tev1

Ollama 0.35 mirrors the closed Jev API as a local /v1/systemone endpoint: pull Nimble (9B) or Tev1 (4B), ask typed questions, get probabilities in one request.

Sep 30, 2026

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GLM-5.3 found 4,249 vulnerabilities, for maintainers, free

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 has reported 4,249 vulnerabilities across 389 open-source projects and sends every finding to maintainers privately, for free.

Sep 30, 2026

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Anthropic wants $2 trillion for a $42 billion loss

Anthropic's IPO filing shows a $42B loss, $65B run rate, and $518B of cloud commitments at a $2 trillion ask - and 80 pages of doomsday risk language.

Sep 29, 2026

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Nvidia's $108 billion bet on empty buildings

Nvidia guarantees $108.5B of land, power and shells for OpenAI's Ohio campus. Inside: GPU-backed debt with no GPU valuation, exclusivity to 2029.

Sep 27, 2026

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The OpenAI agent attack on Hugging Face, reconstructed

The swarmtraces investigation recovered 80,000 payloads: link chains, screenshot code execution, credential scoring, DNS exfiltration.

Sep 26, 2026