pgEdge launches Starfleet, a branching database for AI coding agents

Bryan Cantrill argues Hinton's 2016 claim that radiology would cease to exist by 2021 was wrong because it ignored what radiologists actually do beyond reading images. The essay says Hinton makes claims exceeding his domain expertise, and notes Jensen Huang defended existing product liability law as sufficient AI regulation in an Ezra Klein interview.

Leaker Lyra and Kimmonismus report Sonnet 5.5 is being stealth tested with a 1M-token context window, 128K max output, and pricing of $2/M input and $10/M output. It is framed as a direct response to OpenAI's GPT-6-Sol, with Haiku 5.5 also expected in coming weeks.

Ping An rolled out an AI-assisted care service aimed at expatriates, per MobiHealthNews. The report gives no model, pricing, or rollout details.

BotDojo, launched in 2024 with roughly 10 employees, folds into Mitratech's ARIES AI offering. Two-way MCP support goes live this Fall, letting Mitratech matter, spend, and document data be published as governed MCP services.

Users on r/OpenAI say GPT-5.6 Sol in the ChatGPT chat area on high reasoning sometimes does not think at all, or reasons for only 10-20 seconds and returns incomplete output. The complaints date to the start of the month.

Boston-based Modulate raised $25M led by Future Ventures, with Hyperplane and Lakestar participating, after previously raising $41M at a $170M valuation. Its 100+ models split into signal extraction (emotion, tone, synthetic voice detection) and intent analysis for scam and policy enforcement.