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OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.

Interconnects has launched an Artifacts Hub and Adoption Dashboard to provide free, curated data on the open model ecosystem, including inference tokens, model intelligence, and adoption metrics. The Adoption Dashboard offers insights into download and derivative model numbers by geography and organization, highlighting the US-China gap and growing players. The data is available for free to support the growth of the open ecosystem. AI summary

One coding agent can write a Python Worker and another can write a JavaScript Worker. At runtime, those Workers can exchange references to live objects and call their methods without defining APIs, schemas, or serialization code

Several open models have been released, showcasing their utility on the Pareto frontier, including Inkling by Thinking Machines, Hy3 by Tencent, Laguna S2.1 by Poolside, and Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI, which demonstrate improvements in performance and efficiency. These models are pushing the boundaries of what is possible with open models, with some companies like Thinking Machines and Tencent generating hundreds of millions in revenue per year from their open model finetuning services. The increasing adoption of open models is expected to continue, with potential implications for the AI industry. AI summary

An internal version of OpenAI's Astra model family has solved 10 major open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science, demonstrating significant advancements in scientific reasoning. This breakthrough is attributed to Astra's capabilities, which have already enabled substantial progress in math and science. The solved problems include long-standing open issues in mathematics and theoretical computer science. AI summary

The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: Accidental cyberattacks by OpenAl and Anthropic models under test GPT-5.6 Sol, Ter…

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its weight. Artifici…

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DeepSeek V4 Flash now runs on updated weights by default on AI Gateway, with notably stronger agentic capabilities. On Terminal-Bench, it scores 82.7, up 25.8 points from 56.9 in the April preview. Requests to deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash pic…

Laguna S 2.1 from Poolside now has 10x more capacity on AI Gateway. The increase applies to the paid version, poolside/laguna-s-2.1 , and the free version, poolside/laguna-s-2.1-free , so you can send far more requests, good for high-volume…

**OpenAI** aggressively cut prices for **GPT-5.6 Luna** by 80% and **Terra** by 20%, introducing a faster **Sol Fast** tier with up to 2.5× lower latency at double the price, improving agent workflow costs by roughly 10×. The **ARC-AGI-3** …

Inkling Small from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway. Inkling Small reaches performance comparable to the larger Inkling model at about a quarter of the size, using much less compute per task. It is a broad generalist with na…

Anthropic is opposed to a blanket ban on open weight models, but wants to ban conditions that make them competitive, such as distillation, which it claims allows Chinese companies to evade chip bans and build better models than the US. This approach is seen as protectionist industrial policy that would harm the open AI ecosystem and favor American companies like Anthropic, which has not released any open weight models. AI summary

How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.

GPT-5.6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows, helping deliver more useful intelligence per dollar.

AI Gateway has a unified fast mode abstraction, now in beta. You can now request fast mode the same way for every model on AI Gateway. Set speed to fast , and the gateway serves the fast tier when it's available and falls back to standard s…

A field report documents scientists using AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, showing these agents accelerate software development and speed discovery workflows in domains like genomics. The study highlights practical gains in productivity and suggests agentic AI is becoming a core tool for research software engineering and data-intensive science. AI summary

Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but Rahul Garg explains that's not what matters most. Every token in the orchestrator's context is competing for its attention, and the real value of a subagent is what it keeps …

Kimi K3, an open-weights model, has been released by Moonshot AI, with a 2.8T-parameter MoE model and 104B active parameters, achieving a 2.5x scaling-efficiency improvement over K2. The model's early evaluations are strong, particularly in agent/coding tasks, with top rankings on Agent Arena and Frontend Code Arena. AI summary

In this episode, Thomas Ahle discusses the development of thermodynamic computing chips and the challenges of chip design automation using AI agents. He explains how his team built an open-source Verilog simulator with AI collaboration to o…