OpenCode Launches Crouton Alpha Stealth Model, Free for a Limited Time
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One thing that can be tricky to figure out is how to use Jev's primitives to handle more than one intent in a single user query. My favorite way to approach this is what I call the "shopping cart" pattern: recursively pick the next thing until Jev says we're done. I've personally used this to make a coffee ordering bot for our company Slack (using @DoorDash's CLI!), as well as a fast multi-intent handler for my smart home system. Give it a shot!
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Stanford researchers Owen Queen and James Zou retested 50 widely cited LLM findings using 20 models released by 8 developers between July 2024 and September 2026, and found that 44% had become invalid, another 34% had weakened markedly, only 16% still held, and 6% had become stronger; among the 22 findings with an estimated time to invalidation, the average lifespan was only 15.7 months. Findings about what models cannot do became invalid fastest: of 9 reasoning-related findings, 5 had become invalid and none held or improved, involving letter counting, arithmetic in unfamiliar bases, loss of information in the middle of long contexts, and abandoning the correct answer after a user pushback. In a case study, GPT-3.5 once fabricated 55% of references, GPT-6.1 Sol 0%, and Claude Sonnet 5.5 1%, but Qwen3.7-Flash still reached 69%. The researchers recommend framing empirical LLM findings as observations on a specific model at a specific time, and publicly releasing prompts and analysis code to enable retesting.
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OpenAI says its hardware team used GPT-6 Astra to design a device that lets users converse with the Codex coding agent, completing it as a side project in under a week. Astra handled all stages including enclosure design, PCB layout with component selection and routing, firmware, and the user interface; a contract manufacturer produced a small number of prototypes in under a month, but because Astra did not always account for manufacturing constraints, tolerances, and assembly details, it went through several rounds of revisions. OpenAI also says an internal model with undisclosed details scored 0.875 on BenchCAD 2.0, while GPT-6 Astra scored 0.594 at its highest reasoning level; its hardware team uses Codex and ChatGPT in areas such as robotics and compute infrastructure to handle CAD models, manufacturing drawings, and simulations, with token usage up 23-fold since February.
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I use Notion as a ledger for my @bot cloud agents. I have a bot that takes in all my PR work and hands it out to cloud agents. With several running at once, the problem stops being code. It's knowing what's in flight, who owns it, and what's stuck and why. Chat history is bad at that, really bad. It's long, it scrolls away, and every bot and agent has its own. So everything goes in one table: > one row per PR > row is created immediately when work starts > store owner cloud agent, CI status, next step > agents check the table before starting > asking "where's that PR?" just reads the row > daily sweep against the real PRs > done rows hidden, never deleted The result is that no two agents fix the same bug, and I can ask about any PR and get a straight answer. So far it's only lost 11 PRs, and those never got a row... More on this setup soon ✌️
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GLM 5.2 is 5x cheaper than Opus 4.8 and 11x than Fable 5, yet it tops PostTrainBench. That’s exciting because lower costs make personalized intelligence economically viable. Every company and country should be able to own models trained on its own data and have sovereignty over it. The future is millions of models, each crafted around the data, values, and decisions of the people who rely on them.
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@thenanyu why most of my GCs are muted :)
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Today @maryamyy0 and I are coming out of stealth with Sexbot. A companion that's always there for you. Built to fix the growing loneliness in the world. We raised $5M to build it. Pre-orders are open now. Link in the comments. https://t.co/elXihoqnQR
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Starting November 2, six Zhiyuan Genie G2 humanoid robots worked 24-hour consecutive shifts at a normally operating convenience store in Xuhui, Shanghai. They were evaluated on criteria including on-duty hours, business completion volume, customer reviews, and task success rate. Ultimately, four passed probation; Sister Leng, who was responsible for table cleaning, and Juan Wang, who patrolled the shelves, have not yet passed probation due to minor shortcomings in on-duty initiative and job stability. The livestream also featured experience officers patrolling the venue, having the robots identify sugary and sugar-free cola, detour when their route was temporarily blocked, and complete cooked-food picking while a box was shaking. Zhiyuan says its embodied Agent framework Genie Master, as the unified scheduling brain for the six robots, in earlier testing raised the process success rate of Genie G2 on tasks such as cooked-food packaging, picking, and restocking from 28.6% on the first day to 85.7% by the fifth day.
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The draft for comments of China's first medical AI data security standard, "Medical Artificial Intelligence Application: Data Security and Privacy Protection Specification," administered by the China Electronics Chamber of Commerce and organized and compiled by the Zhihe Standards Center, has been formed, and final participating units are still being recruited. The standard builds a three-dimensional governance architecture of "data regulatory category—data security protection level—application risk," divides data security protection levels into levels one through four, and covers the entire process of data acquisition, annotation and preprocessing, training and fine-tuning, validation and evaluation, deployment and inference, continuous optimization, and exit and disposal.
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Apple has released the first developer beta of macOS 27.3 Golden Gate, with internal build number 26C5035r, only about a week after the release of macOS 27.2. 9to5Mac reports that the main highlight of this update is expanded Siri AI language support, possibly adding Traditional Chinese, Norwegian, Turkish, and Vietnamese, but this information still awaits verification, and the related language support may go live with the official release in December. On the same day, Apple Intelligence in mainland China unlocked its first batch of skills through the first developer preview of iOS 27.3, initially available only on iPhone.
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San Francisco-based AI inference startup Fal has raised $1.3 billion in a new funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Nvidia, Sound Ventures and T. Rowe Price, at a valuation of $16 billion, double its $8 billion valuation in April. Fal also announced a Series E and a Series F, which together total $1.65 billion in funding, with the earlier Series E led by Sequoia. Fal hosts and runs AI video, image and audio models, and its annualized revenue had already exceeded $800 million earlier this year; the original article notes that inference service providers such as Baseten, Fireworks AI and Modal are also growing rapidly, but their gross margins remain thin because of the high cost of purchasing or leasing compute.
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