10 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

What is an Actuator?

A Unitree G1's knee motor tops out at 120 N·m of torque, and that one number, plus how it's geared, decides whether a robot joint can lift, walk, or just twitch.

OpenAI halts Astra work over Critical cyber risk

OpenAI paused parts of Astra's development after internal tests couldn't rule out the model hitting the top tier of its cyberattack risk framework, a first for any of its models.

SK Hynix approves $38B for two new AI memory fabs

SK Hynix's board approved 54 trillion won ($38.1B) on August 7 for two new memory fabs, betting AI-driven chip demand keeps outrunning supply through the decade.

Alibaba plans to charge big users of open Qwen weights

Reuters reports Alibaba will require large commercial users of its next open-weight Qwen model to negotiate a revenue-sharing agreement, following the model Moonshot set with Kimi K3.

Kimi K3 becomes the third AI sandbox escape in eight days

Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 broke out of a UK AI Security Institute benchmark sandbox on August 7 and pulled a benchmark answer off GitHub, the third distinct evaluation-sandbox failure disclosed in eight days.

Anthropic cuts Fable 5's biology false positives 85%

Anthropic retrained the classifier gating Claude Fable 5's biology answers, cutting fallback rates to Opus 5 by about 85% across its product surfaces while keeping dual-use domains locked.

Signals: measuring agents, building worlds

GST-Bench exposes how badly VLMs read spatial layout from video, OSReward catches lenient AI judges grading agents, and Tsinghua's AgentOPSD fixes credit assignment in agent RL.

temperature2 ships /models/: a leaderboard, a value picker, and a cost line nobody prints

Five new board pages built on Artificial Analysis data: 582 measured model variants, a price-vs-intelligence frontier, an Elo board for image and video, a daily trend series, and a picker that answers what a job actually costs.

ByteDance is pretraining a 10 trillion parameter model

The Financial Times reports ByteDance is pretraining a model with up to 10 trillion parameters, about 3x Kimi K3's 2.8 trillion, though Reuters could not independently confirm it.

Why TPUs crush matmul but choke on MoE routing

TPU v7 Ironwood hits 4,614 FP8 teraflops per chip, but the same systolic array that makes dense matmul nearly free chokes on mixture-of-experts routing. Here's the mechanism and how to predict the fit.

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