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Research / T-2026-2278
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra lands in Codex, not as a standalone model
Tibo Thottiaux confirms GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will ship inside Codex, not ChatGPT. A bet on agentic coding over general chat.
SourceGPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
Research / T-2026-3820
GPT-5.5 Codex has a reasoning-token clustering problem at 516, 1034, and 1552
An analysis of 390,000 Codex responses shows GPT-5.5 clusters at fixed reasoning-token counts, coinciding with a sharp drop in reasoning intensity and task quality.
SourceGPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance
Research / T-2026-5524
Wafer hits 2626 tok/s on GLM5.2 with AMD MI355X at over 2x lower cost than Blackwell
Wafer serves GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at 2626 tok/s/node and 213 tok/s single stream, outperforming Blackwell on cost while requiring no custom kernels.
SourceGLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at 2626 tok/s/node at over 2x lower cost than Blackwell
Research / T-2026-0687
Claude-real-video: the hack that lets any LLM actually watch a video
A new open-source tool, claude-real-video, extracts meaningful frames from any video and feeds them directly to an LLM — no cloud upload, no transcript-only blind spot.
SourceClaude-real-video － any LLM can watch a video
Research / T-2026-7117
Parsewise (YC P25) bets that document AI's bottleneck is trust, not extraction
Parsewise, founded by ex-Palantir and Bain engineers, launches an API for cross-document data extraction with word-level citations, beating Gemini on the Databricks OfficeQA…
SourceLaunch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API
Research / T-2026-0414
Meituan's LongCat-2.0: A 1.6T-Parameter MoE Trained on Chinese Chips, Now Open Source
Meituan releases LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter open-source MoE model trained on 50,000 domestic chips, with a 1M context window and top-3 OpenRouter rankings.
SourceLongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active
Research / T-2026-8377
Central bankers warn debt-fuelled AI boom risks a global financial crash
The Bank for International Settlements warns that debt-fuelled AI spending, opaque financing, and shadow bank lending risk a global financial crash similar to the 2008 credit…
SourceAI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers
Research / T-2026-6838
The single Unicode character that reveals AI's typeface blind spot
A deep dive into Arabic ligature rendering exposes a blind spot in how AI systems understand written language.
SourceDeciphering Basmala
Research / T-2026-1811
DeepSeek's DSpark spec-decoding framework accelerates inference 60-85%
DeepSeek open-sources DeepSpec, a full-stack speculative decoding library, claiming 60-85% speedups on Flash models and 57-78% on Pro models.
SourceDSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
Research / T-2026-9898
Marfa Public Radio's Sleep Podcast Is a Perfect Test for AI Listening
A small West Texas public radio station's fundraising gimmick — reading boring documents aloud — accidentally creates a perfect dataset for studying how AI models handle long…
SourceMarfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
Research / T-2026-9379
The Mythos Precedent: US Government Lets Anthropic Release Its Strongest Model to Trusted Partners
The US government allows Anthropic to release its powerful Mythos AI model to select partners, revising an earlier export block. What this means for AI regulation and the industry.
SourceUS allows Anthropic to release Mythos to 'trusted partners'
Research / T-2026-5131
Apple Skips M6 Pro and Max to Fast-Track an AI-First M7 Silicon Generation
Apple cancels M6 Pro and Max chips, fast-tracking an AI-focused M7 line. A commentary on what the roadmap shift means for AI hardware strategy.
SourceApple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line