Artificial Analysis scores Moonshot's new model 55 on its Intelligence Index, fourth of 215 and on the price-performance frontier at $2/$10 per million tokens. The catch: it burned 150 million output tokens on the suite, against an 87 million median, and streams at 73.5 tokens a second. Weights are still pending.
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At least ten of 44 references in a Taylor & Francis paper in New Review of Academic Librarianship cannot be found. The authors disclosed using Consensus AI and ChatGPT; the publisher is investigating. A reminder that citation checking belongs inside any research agent's loop, not after publication.
TorrentFreak
The fast Rust linker for Linux now enables WebAssembly output by default, handles enough linker-script syntax to build Linux kernel modules, and moves macOS support forward. It caps threads at 32 unless told otherwise and needs Rust 1.99 to build. Proper COMDAT handling cost a little speed.
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From JetBrains' InnovationHub under Apache 2.0, ThinkRail gives each task its own git worktree with terminals, chats and a live diff, plus a graph of SPEC.md files the agent maintains. It runs on macOS, Windows, Linux or in a browser, but drives only the pi coding agent.
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The Information reports Instacart hired a bank and talked with DoorDash; Bloomberg says Uber also held talks and walked away. Instacart, worth more than $13 billion, saw its shares jump 9.2% on Friday. The talks are early and may come to nothing.
TechCrunch
With an IPO expected this year at up to $2 trillion, against a $965 billion private valuation, early stakes have ballooned: Spark Capital's $75 million is worth about $7 billion, Menlo's $1 billion-plus about $14 billion, and Iconiq's $6 billion about $17 billion, TechCrunch reports.
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The running list includes OpenAI's discontinued Sora and ChatGPT Atlas, Character.ai's October bankruptcy and the Humane AI Pin, whose assets went to HP for $116 million. The pattern: features get absorbed by bigger platforms. S&P Global says about 42% of AI initiatives are abandoned.
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