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Ataraxos AI Beats Stratego's Most Decorated Player 15 Wins to 1 in Nature Paper, on a Training Run Costing Under $8,000
Researchers from CMU, NYU, Stanford and MIT report in Nature that Ataraxos beat Pim Niemeijer with 15 wins, 1 loss and 4 draws, using far less compute than DeepMind's DeepNash.
CoreWeave Launches Forge, Brings Vera Rubin NVL72 Online and Says It Will Offer Vera CPU Racks for Agent Sandboxes
At its Fully Connected event, CoreWeave announced Vera Rubin NVL72 availability, plans to offer NVIDIA Vera CPUs, and the Forge platform for training and agent improvement.
Anthropic Adds Mods to Claude Code, TypeScript Functions That Rewrite Prompts, Gate Tool Calls and Run Unsandboxed
Claude Code mods, announced October 1, are plugin-delivered TypeScript functions that can rewrite prompts and block tool calls, and Anthropic says they are not sandboxed.
vLLM 0.30 Adds a Persistent GPU Weight Cache for Faster Engine Restarts and Removes GPTQ Activation Ordering
vLLM 0.30.0 adds a GPU-resident weight cache for faster engine restarts and removes GPTQ g_idx; llm-d v0.10.0 then moved its base image to 0.30.0.
OpenAI Gives Codex Reusable Cloud Environments, a Voice-Directed CLI and Offline Pull Request Reviews at DevDay
OpenAI's DevDay update to Codex adds saved cloud environments that persist across devices, a CLI with voice control and an /agents view, and automatic code reviews.
Claude Code Makes Auto Mode Its Default Starting Permission Mode on Every Plan and Provider
Claude Code 2.1.284 starts interactive terminal and VS Code sessions in auto mode on every plan and provider, extending a default that began on Pro, Max and Team plans.
Google Unveils Gemini 4 Argon, Claiming Benchmark Leads Over GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 but Starting With a Limited Rollout
Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, which it says leads on 12 of 18 disclosed benchmarks. Access begins with trusted cyber defenders, with introductory pricing of $2 and $10 per million tokens.
OpenAI Launches $500 Pro 500 Plan With 300-Token-Per-Second Ultrafast Codex Tier and Halves the $200 Plan's Codex Allowance
At DevDay, OpenAI added a $500-a-month Pro 500 plan with an Ultrafast Codex speed tier and will cut the $200 Pro plan's Codex usage from 20x to 10x the Plus allowance from October 30.
Modal Labs Nears $750 Million Round at $15.75 Billion Valuation, More Than Tripling Its Worth in Four Months
The AI inference infrastructure provider is reportedly closing an Accel-led round, up from $4.65 billion at its $355 million raise four months ago.
OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay at One-Fifth of GPT-6 Astra's Token Prices While Cancelling GPT-6.1 Astra
OpenAI unveiled GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay, saying it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding at one-fifth the token prices; a GPT-6.1 Astra release was scrapped.
Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5, Reporting 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and Up to 30% Lower Per-Task Cost
Sonnet 5.5 arrives in Claude Code at unchanged $2/$10 token pricing; Anthropic reports 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, up from 10.3% for Sonnet 5.
Xiaomi Releases MiMo-V2.6-Pro and Flash as MIT-Licensed Open-Weight Models, Topping Open-Weight Ranking on Artificial Analysis Index
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro scored 46 on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, the top open-weight result, with MIT-licensed weights and low API pricing.