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How far behind the closed frontier are open-weight cyber capabilities? About 6–7 months. Zai’s GLM-5.3 is the highest-scoring open-weight model on our Cyber ECI. Its score of 160 beats OpenAI’s GPT-5.4, released in March.

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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 19h

We recorded over a thousand runs of Slay the Spire and its sequel for our recent benchmark, SpireClimb. Over the coming weeks, we'll publish them all on our YouTube channel, complete with subtitles showing the models' in-game thinking.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 16/10/2026

The wispy curtains of material that shroud stars and brown dwarfs in this #NASAWebb view of IC 348 is rich in carbon-containing molecules that resemble soot. Light from stars reflects off this material, causing it to glow: bit.ly/4iwhW4o

$On the left is a large image of a star cluster and nebula, which takes up two-thirds of the view. Wispy filaments of pink-purple fill the middle, curving left and right on either side of the center. The filaments on the right side form a dramatic loop that seems to extend toward the viewer. At lower left, additional filaments are yellowish. Two prominent, bright stars near the center show Webb’s eight-point diffraction spikes. Dozens of fainter stars are scattered across the image. In the bottom third, three small areas are circled and labeled 1, 2, and 3. On the right is a column of three smaller boxes labeled 1, 2, and 3, showing enlarged sections of the full image that align to the numbers in the larger image at left. A pair of faint stars are shown in box 1, while boxes 2 and 3 each highlight a single faint star. The background in the top two images looks light brown, while the background in the third is dark gray.$

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

New project for you all: I produced “Musk,” Alex Gibney’s extraordinary documentary, rolling out now.

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 15/10/2026

Not everything in the Universe glows… Dark nebulae are dense clouds of gas and dust that block light from behind, creating inky silhouettes. 🔭🧪 🔎 A few spooky spots to find in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view of the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae: 1️⃣ Barnard 85 2️⃣ Barnard 89 3️⃣ Barnard 302 and 303

Dense star field surrounding a glowing pink-and-blue nebula, with dark dust lanes branching from its bright center.

Pink and white nebula clouds swirl across a star-filled space scene, with dark dust streaks and a bright glowing region at right.

Pink and blue nebula clouds glow amid dense star fields, with dark dust lanes threading through the scene.

Wide starfield with pink and blue nebulae, the Lagoon and Trifid, with three white numbered boxes marking regions of interest.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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teropa @teropa.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Can sound help you find a breathing rhythm? Breathe along with this: six breaths a minute. We made an interactive piece exploring breath, sound and movement in yoga. Link below

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ESO @eso.org · 15/10/2026

A Galaxy on the Edge. The spiral galaxy NGC 1055 appears to lack the whirling arms characteristic of a spiral, as it is seen edge-on. On the other hand, it displays odd twists in its structure. What caused them? Read more: www.eso.org/public/news/eso1707 🔭

An edge-on spiral galaxy stretching diagonally across a dark background. Foreground stars are scattered across the surrounding sky. Image by ESO.

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ESO @eso.org · 14/10/2026

New milestone reached 🥳 Nearly 500 segments of the main mirror of our ELT have now arrived from Europe at the ELT Technical Facility at our Paranal Observatory in Chile. That is around half of all the segments being made for what will become a 39-metre eye on the sky. 🔭 🧪

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 13/10/2026

Ryan Coogler's ‘X-FILES’ is officially moving forward as a full series for Hulu. Starring Danielle Deadwyler, Himesh Patel, Steve Buscemi and Amy Madigan.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 09/10/2026

#NASAWebb peered into the Flame Nebula, locating the faint infrared signatures of several brown dwarfs, objects so small that their cores will never sustain nuclear fusion of hydrogen. The smallest among them is two to three times the mass of Jupiter: bit.ly/4iZyqC8 🔭

A collage of four images showing a dusty nebula. Two-thirds of the collage is taken up by a single image of the nebula, while the remaining third shows three insets stacked on top of each other. In the largest image at left, there is an orange and yellow fang-like cloud of matter that cuts this section in two. The top side of the fang shows more clouds of a dark brown shade, while the bottom shows filaments of light brown. There are a number of bright blue and red points of light spread throughout, three of which are circled in white and labeled with a number from one to three. Circle 1 is located at about 9 o’clock in the middle of the fang-like cloud, while Circle 2 is at about 2 o’clock and Circle 3 is located at about 4 o’clock, toward the bottom left. Each circle magnifies an individual object, which is shown in the three squares to the right, labeled 1 to 3 from top to bottom. Each image contains a single, fuzzy point of light in the middle.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 08/10/2026

#NASAWebb has pinpointed the host galaxy of the most distant fast radio burst ever seen. The galaxy proved surprisingly small and young, which provides a clue to the source of the burst: news.stsci.edu/4hEmZip 🔭

$A field full of small galaxies of all shapes against the blackness of space. A few bright white stars show 8 prominent diffraction spikes. A small galaxy at lower right is highlighted with a white box. A shaded triangle extends upward to the corners of a larger box showing a zoom in of the region. Two fuzzy, light blue blobs are at center of the box, with a larger and brighter one at top. Just above the top blob is a white crosshair showing the location where a fast radio burst was detected.$

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 08/10/2026

Launching #NASARoman was only the beginning! Listen as STScI staff shares what they’re looking forward to as Roman begins its next chapter in space. Credit: D. Kirshenblat (STScI). 🔭

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/10/2026

HYPERSCALE tells the full story of the data center buildout and the backlash it’s facing. It’s out in just two weeks — but I need a favor! If you’re planning to buy it, it would make a huge difference if you place a preorder. Get your copy today: bookshop.org/a/18331/9798...

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Hyperscale is out in two weeks!

Preorder your copy to get the full story on the AI-fueled data center buildout

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 05/10/2026

While mountains give us high-altitude dark skies, they disrupt smooth airflow, forcing the air to break into turbulent pockets. This atmospheric jitter is called "seeing." NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory was intentionally built where coastal airflow passes smoothly over the ridge. 🔭🧪

Observatory perched atop a rocky mountain with layered hills fading into the distance under a golden sunset sky.

Sunset casting warm orange light over high desert mountains with an observatory perched on a ridge at left.

Rubin Observatory perched atop its mountain summit site on Cerro Pachón. The observatory is boot-shaped at lower left with long white service building extending left and silver dome sticking up. The dome's vertical slit is open, revealing the telescope in the blackness within. The night sky is peppered with the pinpricks of stars. The Little Beehive Cluster of stars is a denser collection of pinpricks to the upper right of the observatory.

Illustration showing smooth ocean air flowing over a mountain, with turbulence forming on the mountain's opposite side. Two insets show the impact of turbulence on an image of a star: without turbulence the star is sharp, while with turbulence it's blurred. Text reads "A site chosen for steady air. Smooth, stable air flows in from the ocean..then gets disrupted by mountains, creating turbulence."

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 06/10/2026

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen for developing a whole new way of viewing the universe with the IceCube neutrino experiment at the South Pole. 🧵

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

https://www.instagram.com/goattoself?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&stkn=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How do Chinese AI firms make money? In a new report, Cheryl Wu and Anson Ho identify five revenue sources and analyze how much each contributes. 🧵

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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Who is more exposed to a semiconductor supply shock, China or the US? We split out semiconductors in the ICIO tables economists use to trace supply chains and found that China's exposure is about 2.7× that of the US.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 06/10/2026

NEW: The contrasting colors in NGC 7129 show differences in temperatures detected by #NASAWebb. The gold cavity at the left is hottest due to the central star and other embedded stars. The clumpy, red matter is colder and represents jets from less mature protostars: news.stsci.edu/3U8T7Bz 🔭

$A young star cluster filled with many stars that display the Webb Telescope’s unique eight-pronged diffraction pattern. At its center is a yellow star, which sports the largest diffraction pattern. To the left of the star, there is a region filled with yellow dust and gas that extends from the star to the left border. This yellow region extends from the bottom, covering about two-thirds of the image. The yellow region has several blue stars of different sizes embedded within. The top third, which lies outside of the yellow region, holds a few bright protostars, within dense gray gas. Those stars illuminate the gas, making it appear blue. A few red outflows from other protostars are visible above this grayish-blue region. To the right of the central star, there is a clumpy, flame-like plume of red dust and gas with protostars that emit a soft white light within. The plume is surrounded by more dense gray gas and dust. There are several background galaxies strewn throughout the image/$

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 05/10/2026

Today, three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work on optogenetics, which lets researchers control and manipulate cells using light. It all started with a curious question about the biology of algae. 🧵

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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OpenAI recently published data on its researchers’ coding-agent usage. We took their weekly figures from January to mid-August 2026 and fitted trends to summarize how quickly spending grew. We found that spending has been doubling about once a month.

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 03/10/2026

It's October 3rd, so we're wearing pink! 🌸 On Cerro Pachón in Chile, nature puts on its own show during twilight, painting the sky and NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory in glowing pink. We can't really enforce a dress code for the cosmos, but the Chilean skies clearly got the memo.

Large observatory with open dome on rocky terrain under a pink and purple twilight sky.

A large boot-shaped observatory on the left and small cylindrical dome on the right, both perched on rocky hills under a vibrant pink and purple sunset sky.

Boot-shaped observatory building against a gradient sky transitioning from orange up to deep purple.

White astronomical observatory dome with closed shutter against a pink and blue twilight sky with pink sunset clouds.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So grateful I get to include this comic in my book as a way of saying thanks ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 02/10/2026

The combined Warner Bros/Paramount company will be called Skydance. Warner Bros and Paramount will serve as brands under the larger company.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 01/10/2026

#NASAWebb has provided a crash course on planet-shattering collisions, providing clues to the amount of energy in their collisions. (1/6) 🧵 🔭 🧪

Artist’s concept of a star and its debris disk against the black background of space. The star is in the background, right of center, and depicted as a small, luminous sphere. The debris disk is a large blue ring that encircles the star. The debris disk is angled toward the viewer, so that the portion nearest to the viewer extends beyond the bottom frame of the illustration. Many dark, rocky fragments are scattered throughout the debris disk. In the foreground, toward the left, is a small planetary embryo colliding into the left side of a larger spherical object. The impact site glows bright yellow and orange and has a mottled appearance, as though chunks of both colliding bodies are breaking up and being destroyed. Orange-yellow streams of vapor extend outward from the collision area. Behind the debris disk and its star are many small stars in the background. A label in the bottom right corner reads “Artist’s Concept.”

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She escaped her Nazi husband (disguising herself as her own maid became a Hollywood star, then co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today’s Bluetooth & GPS technology. BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY (2017)

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 30/09/2026

ICYMI: Over the summer #NASAWebb discovered a new exoplanet in the Beta Pictoris system, using a new method. Catch up on more news you may have missed on ViewSpace: viewspace.org/video_library?tags=16…

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The world’s smallest pacemaker is smaller than a grain of rice, can dissolve in the body, and is our #PictureOfTheWeek. Image credit: John A. Rogers/Northwestern University

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 29/09/2026

Jennifer Lawrence joins Zach Cregger's sci-fi thriller 'The Flood,' Deadline reports. The film is set to release in 2028.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 29/09/2026

this featurette about the making of the dinosaurs of "The End of Oak Street" (2026) is really good,—surprisingly good for a studio-created video, and features my old friend VFX supervisor Jay Cooper and VFX by ILM but PLEASE watch the movie first before watching this video youtu.be/0LpMllnZxBc

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The End of Oak Street | Bringing Dinosaurs To Life | Behind The Scenes | Warner Bros. Entertainment

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/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚨Hades: Developing Hell RETURNS🕹️ In the first episode of our second season we talk to the team @supergiantgames.bsky.social about the decision to finally make a sequel to one of their games. WATCH: youtu.be/UWFfmD8n-xA

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Why Supergiant Games Chose to Make a Sequel to Hades - Developing Hell II

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Supergiant Games @supergiantgames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📽️To mark the anniversary of Hades II's launch, we've teamed up with @noclipvideo.bsky.social once more to bring you Developing Hell II, a multi-episode documentary about the making of our first-ever sequel! 👀Watch the trailer, and look for Episode 1 real soon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Km...

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Hades Developing Hell II - Teaser Trailer

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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ESO @eso.org · 24/09/2026

Cloudy with a chance of dust ☁️ This cloud-strewn image shows RCW 36, an emission nebula within a larger complex, the Vela Molecular Ridge. RCW 36 is one of the closest sites to our Solar System where certain objects are forming. Read more: www.eso.org/public/images/potw1949a 🔭

Colourful view of a nebula, filled with clouds of red, orange, blue and dark gas and dust. Bright stars shine through the clouds.

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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can AI tell if you've built your IKEA furniture wrong? Our new benchmark, the Furniture Assembly Benchmark (FAB), gives models the manual and a photo of a half-completed piece of furniture and asks them to spot the mistake. The top score has gone from 28% to 80% in just 10 months.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 22/09/2026

When two galaxies meet a “fireworks” show of star formation can occur. When #NASAWebb peered at starburst galaxy Messier 82 in infrared light, it pierced through dust to reveal hot galactic wind extending from the core where millions of stars are being born. Credit: STScI.

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ESO @eso.org · 22/09/2026

The Triangulum galaxy up close 👀 Taken with our VLT, this festive-looking image reveals the diversity and complexity of the gas and dust between the stars in our neighbouring galaxy. What do the different colours represent? Find out: www.eso.org/public/images/potw2612a 🔭 #flashback

Wide-field image showing intricate clouds of gas and dust in shades of orange, gold, purple, and blue

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

'Bladerunner 2049' (2017) dir: Denis Villeneuve 📽️

real cat watching Disney's 'The Aristocats' on teevee, Dutchess is saying "you look lonely"

close up of cat in bisexual lighting with a bandage on its nose looking forelorn

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Like Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.” “Do the thing and you will have the power.”

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 21/09/2026

The ‘IT FOLLOWS’ sequel has wrapped filming. Starring Maika Monroe, Naomi Ackie, Michael Gandolfini and Jackie Earle Haley.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 19/09/2026

Ctenophores are considered “immortal jellyfish:” they have the Benjamin Button–like ability to reverse their development in the face of prolonged starvation or injury. www.quantamagazine.org/ctenophores-...

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 18/09/2026

Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location at the edge of our Milky Way. It contains two massive molecular clouds from which clusters of stars are actively forming, as captured in this #NASAWebb image: bit.ly/4fRIdZ4

A star-forming region. At center right is a compact star cluster composed of luminous red, blue, and white points of light. Faint jets with clumpy, diffuse material extend in various directions from the bright cluster. Above and to the right is a smaller cluster of stars. Translucent red wisps of material stretch across the scene. Background galaxies are scattered across this swath of space, appearing as small blue-white and orange-white dots or fuzzy, thin disks.

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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Another problem from FrontierMath: Open Problems has been solved! The solution was elicited by Becker, Greger, and Peters in an interactive session with GPT-6 Astra. Peters originally suggested the problem for the benchmark. He had this to say.

Quote card from Dominik Peters (CNRS Research Scientist, Université Paris Dauphine - PSL) on GPT-6 Astra designing a new core-stable multi-winner voting rule based on maximizing harmonic entropy.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is Machine Gods! A new podcast from Kevin and me, in partnership with the legends at NPR. New episodes in October! Links to follow the show here — the trailer is already up machinegods.fm

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Machine Gods — the official podcast of the singularity

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