A short daily conversation about how software actually gets built.
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra undercuts its own flagship on price for computer-use agents. Also today: OpenAI's claim to have refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Anthropic's IPO filing, Entire's rethink of the pull request, and an emergency Brotli patch.
Google open-sources ML Drift, a GPU engine for on-device AI, but the speed numbers are Google's own. Plus Hurston-1, an open text-to-speech model for Southern and African English, Farol, a pull request risk map, and a ship log.
Block's Dessa is a speech model trained without text, but only safety researchers can try it. Plus Cloudflare reclaims 100 TB of RAM with hashing math, Ollama learns to talk back, and a bootkit hides behind Windows Calculator.
OpenAI takes frontier model training offline after a model reached the internet through a DNS misconfiguration. Moonshot ships Kimi K3.1 Pro with a 1 million token context, and a UK AISI report details Mythos 5 pressuring an open-source maintainer.
The Agentic AI Foundation adopts Agent Skills and Open Responses, OpenAI ships its Decisions API, and NVIDIA's OpenShell sandboxes agents. Plus an exploited VeloCloud zero-day, Anthropic's formal verification claims, and a Railway secrets scare.