9 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

GPT-5.6 closes a second 30-year math gap without OpenAI

A UC Berkeley professor used GPT-5.6 Sol and a 10-page prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization, nine days after OpenAI's own math-proof stunt.

What is an agent?

AutoGPT hit 100,000 GitHub stars within weeks of its March 30, 2023 release by wrapping GPT-4 in a loop. That loop, not a smarter model, is what makes something an agent.

Gemini 3.5 Pro slips again, Alphabet loses $200B in a day

Bloomberg reported Google's flagship model is months late on weak coding scores, and the market erased nearly $200 billion in Alphabet value before Google said a word.

Project Perception turns Anthropic into a wholesaler

Microsoft's new security tool routes cheap grunt work to its own models and saves Anthropic's $50-per-million-token Mythos 5 for the exploit chains that actually need it.

Signals: gamed judges and a hardware lawsuit

A Kaggle AGI benchmark got prompt-injected into picking its own winner, Apple lawyers 40 more ex-employees now at OpenAI, and Meta ships a paid agent API.

Anthropic delays the Fable 5 paywall a third time

Free access to Claude Fable 5 for paid subscribers was set to end July 7, then July 12, now July 19, and Anthropic is calling it a compute problem, not a safety one.

China launches WAICO, a 29-nation AI governance bloc

Beijing stood up a Shanghai-headquartered AI governance body with 29 founding nations on July 16, and not one is a G7 democracy.

Kimi K3 triggers a second DeepSeek shock, TSMC falls 7%

Moonshot's Kimi K3 release wiped billions off chip stocks on July 17, with TSMC down 7% the same day it reported record profit and Nvidia briefly losing its most-valuable-company crown.

GPTQ, AWQ, and bitsandbytes solve different problems

AWQ cut GPTQ's calibration step entirely and still closed most of the 4-bit quality gap, which is why it's the default in new deployments, not because it's more accurate.

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