12 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Google's Intrinsic open-sources its robotics platform

Alphabet's robotics unit Intrinsic released Intrinsic Core, an Apache 2.0 ROS-compatible stack for real-time control, pose estimation and motion planning, at ROSCon 2026.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol undercuts Claude Opus 5.5 by half

OpenAI cut GPT-6 API pricing in half and called it permanent, 90 minutes after Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5.

Gates Foundation rallies 60 AI labs on language gap

Gates Foundation, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI and 55 more groups pledge to bring AI to 3.4 billion people locked out by language.

Six banks propose fraud rules for AI shopping agents

NatWest, Bank of America, Capital One, ING and two other banks published fraud and privacy principles for AI shopping agents on Sept. 22, 2026.

AI agents help close the last unsolved sporadic Galois case

A six-person team used AI agents to find a degree-23 polynomial for the Mathieu group M23, the last of 26 sporadic groups with no known Galois realization.

British Columbia sues OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge shooting

The province itself, not just victims' families, is now suing OpenAI over a shooting its own safety team reportedly saw coming.

Claude Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 at 40% less cost

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 on Sept. 22, 2026 at $4 and $20 per million tokens, claiming Fable 5.1-level work for 40% less than Opus 5.

Snorkel AI raises $350M at a $3.5B valuation

Snorkel AI raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, and CEO Alex Ratner told Reuters the run-rate had already crossed $350 million.

DeepSeek invited to brief the UN Security Council

Two Reuters sources say DeepSeek will brief the Security Council on Wednesday. Moonshot was invited. Liang Wenfeng is not going.

Signals: Cheap 2K images, local 125B, UN agents

Tencent prices Hy Image 3.5 Preview at $0.024 per 2K image, Tim Dettmers says 125B fits on 24 GB, and a UN panel files the Hugging Face hack as a control-loss warning.

Shopify embraces Muse checkout that Amazon blocked

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke said Meta's Muse assistant can now check out through Shop Pay on every Shopify store, and Shopify shares jumped 7% on the news.

Alibaba's Zhenwu V900 chip scales to 500K cards for AI

Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu unveiled the Zhenwu V900 chip and a plan to train a 5-10 trillion parameter Qwen model, framing both as steps toward artificial superintelligence.

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