M5 Ultra Mac Studio vs RTX 5090 tested on local LLMs

Leash Bio's Minos turns years of DNA-encoded library data into tens of thousands of lab-in-the-loop simulations for agent scientific RL. The release includes a full preprint, blog, and open dataset.

Reddit user komarco created "Liquid Geometry," a 3-minute immersive show for a "Museum Night" exhibition, generating keyframes first and then using Minimax H3 for video generation.

Chainalysis reports cumulative x402 payments on Base jumped from ~1,500 in mid-2025 to over 138 million by Q3 2026. More than 87% of payments were between a hundredth of a cent and 10 cents; US-linked wallets were 88.1% of identifiable AI inference spending.

Anthropic analyzed 250,000 Claude conversations over one week: politics, policy and social issues make up 5.75% of US Claude.ai chats, elections and voting 0.51%, and requests for voting recommendations just 0.01%. Policy-violating election requests appeared in 0.002% of conversations.

Barclays downgraded Dell, HPE, and NetApp over concerns that enterprise AI adoption is lagging, triggering a data center sell-off. Dell shares fell 11%.

Databricks says its enterprise customers receive millions of documents, and Document Intelligence is aimed at powering real-time applications and agents on that data.

Gabriel Unger and Arvind Narayanan argue the dominant Silicon Valley program treats AI as almost entirely about automating human labor, driven by economic incentives and cultural aspects of computer science. They contend maximalist full-automation attempts are unpromising on technical and economic grounds, and that augmentation and human-AI team collaboration are under-researched.