Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-23: Disney deal, Health AI
Disney buys bankrupt Character.AI while dodging its lawsuits, Microsoft touts an unproven healthcare super-intelligence, and a 16GB AMD GPU runs Qwen3-27B.
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Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-24: Google's Cross-App Intelligence
Today starts with what it costs to call a model, then looks at how data moves between apps, how a phone's system boundaries get broken, and one update to a communications protocol library. Put these items side by side and the focus lands in the same place: what happens once technology leaves the release notes — how you use it, how far it actually gets, and what it costs.
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Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-22: GPT on GCP, Flash 1017
OpenAI flagships land on Google Cloud, DeepSeek's Flash 1017 beats Sonnet 5.6 on ten benchmarks, and four Mac Studios run a trillion-parameter model.
Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-21: Meta terms, Muse leak
Meta drops "train" from its commercial terms, researchers count Muse's guessable share links, and DeepSeek open-sources the DeepInfer inference engine.
Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-20: Offline RTS, TorchTPU
Simon Willison ships an offline RTS in 316 commits, Google open-sources TorchTPU for PyTorch on TPUs, and Germany pushes toward 80% factory automation.
Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-19: Linux 7.3, Ming audio
A demon-roulette game pauses its Steam demo over AI clones, Linux 7.3 ships with 18,765 commits, and whatmodel.sh finds self-reported scores run 6.4% high.
Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-18: METR, CoreWeave 63%
Anthropic gives METR employee-like access, bond markets price CoreWeave's five-year bankruptcy risk at 63%, and llama.cpp proposes better K-quants.