LLM chess engine reaches ~1500 Elo on LiChess, beats Stockfish level 0

A developer on r/ClaudeAI reports handling web app and DevOps work entirely with Sonnet and Haiku, calling the output satisfactory. The post pushes back on complaints that the latest Opus and Fable models are "trash."

The model was pretrained from scratch on SomBench, a multimodal lunar dataset of nearly two million co-registered data bundles spanning 11 modalities and two spatial scales. It was evaluated on crater detection at regional and meter scales, irregular mare patch segmentation, and lunar polar ice prospectivity regression.

Microsoft patched 974 CVEs in a single month, a new record, while Oracle shipped 1,448 patches in July versus 309 a year earlier. Total CVEs logged in 2026 hit 66,401 by mid-September, nearly double the 33,512 recorded at the same point in 2025.

Lenny's Podcast episode features SpaceXAI's Roman Ugarte arguing the lab is pursuing useful AI rather than superintelligence, unlike other AI labs.