AI INSIDERS NEWSLETTER / ISSUE №215 · 5th of November 2026

Checkable Claims and Cheaper Models

Ricursive says its Ripple-65B cost $32 million, Cognition's SWE-2 Flash costs a fifth of its flagship, and Tencent's Hy4 can now operate a computer.

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ISSUE №214 · WED, 04 NOV 2026

Who Checks the Numbers, and What Thinking Costs

Prime Intellect re-ran public AI tests and found graders that rejected right answers and models hunting for the solutions, while WIRED traced the UK's £400 billion AI promise to a report Google paid for.

ISSUE №213 · TUE, 03 NOV 2026

A Slowing Curve, a Hidden Model and Agents That Ship Fast

Anthropic's amended stock filing says it may soon reach its own definition of AI speeding up AI research, though it has not named a current model that qualifies.

ISSUE №212 · MON, 02 NOV 2026

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MODELS A chip-design startup says it built a top open AI model for $32 million

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TOOLS AI agents turned a 7,500-page math reference into checked code

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MODELS Cartesia's AI skips the word-chopping step and learns from raw text

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MODELS Cognition's new cheap coding AI is fast, but you can't download it yet

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WIRE Conductor, the multi-agent coding app, is joining Meta and closing its cloud

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TOOLS DeepMind publishes the code behind its math-solving AI, with a catch

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MODELS Kimi's big open AI model is now downloadable, and here is what's inside

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AGENTS OpenAI spent $1.2 million to get AI to find 948 ways to hack Linux

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Models & Research

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Models / 8 min ago

A chip-design startup says it built a top open AI model for $32 million

Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview under Apache 2.0, claiming a coding-agent score that beats models up to 15 times larger, though it trails rivals on several other tests.

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Models / 8 min ago

Cartesia's AI skips the word-chopping step and learns from raw text

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Models / 8 min ago

Cognition's new cheap coding AI is fast, but you can't download it yet

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Models / 8 min ago

Kimi's big open AI model is now downloadable, and here is what's inside

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Agents & Automation

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Agents / 8 min ago

OpenAI spent $1.2 million to get AI to find 948 ways to hack Linux

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Agents / yesterday

Apple lets any app developer plug into the new Siri

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Agents / yesterday

One engineer says AI agents need their rules in code, not in prompts

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Agents / 2 days ago

Framer's design AI now edits your site while it is still typing

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Developer Tools

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Tools / 8 min ago

AI agents turned a 7,500-page math reference into checked code

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Tools / 8 min ago

DeepMind publishes the code behind its math-solving AI, with a catch

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Tools / 8 min ago

Perplexity's Decisions API can now check the web before it answers

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Tools / 8 min ago

Together AI lets software agents retune its model servers daily

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Funding / 2 days ago

Anthropic's third-quarter filing shows $17 billion in sales and slowing growth

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Funding / 3 days ago

Anthropic's real risk is a $266 billion bill it must pay either way

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Funding / Oct 29

Google and Microsoft stop raising AI spending plans, and cloud stocks slip

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Funding / Oct 28

Anthropic buys a biotech that had one employee and a lot of Claude

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Policy / yesterday

Ohio voters ban or limit data centers in at least 14 towns

Ohioans settled 21 local data center measures on Tuesday, in a state where companies plan to spend up to $40 billion on AI infrastructure by 2030.

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Policy / yesterday

The UK's £400 billion AI promise came from a report Google paid for

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Policy / 2 days ago

Anthropic's IPO filing says AI may soon speed up its own research

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Policy / 3 days ago

Google will honor a shared AI training opt-out; other firms can follow

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Opinion / yesterday

A second critic says the AI weight-editing paper mixes up its tricks

Matthew Honnibal argues the viral GPT-6 Astra post bundles several different techniques under one claim, and the abstract's raw-weights wording fits only the experiments on the smallest networks.

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Opinion / yesterday

Hadley Wickham's rough math says AI prices cover the cost to serve

Hadley Wickham costed a server for the open model Kimi K3 at 25 cents per million units of text, against $1.13 at providers, and calls the sum crude.

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Opinion / 2 days ago

A blogger says AI editing another AI's brain is not a superhuman trick

Sean Goedecke argues the flagship result in a GPT-6 Astra paper is a routine technique a skilled human researcher would have used, and no sign of runaway self-improvement.

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Opinion / 3 days ago

Investor Hannah Xu says top AI labs now run on their own models

In an X essay, Xu argues the frontier labs have rebuilt their teams, data access and tooling around agents, and that few other companies can match the loop.

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Checkable Claims and Cheaper Models

Who Checks the Numbers, and What Thinking Costs

A Slowing Curve, a Hidden Model and Agents That Ship Fast

Poisoned Data, Patched Guards and a $266 Billion Bill

Open Weights, Written Rules and Agents on Teams

Scorecards, Agent Landlords and the Bill Coming Due

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Models & Research

A chip-design startup says it built a top open AI model for $32 million

Cartesia's AI skips the word-chopping step and learns from raw text

Cognition's new cheap coding AI is fast, but you can't download it yet

Kimi's big open AI model is now downloadable, and here is what's inside

Agents & Automation

OpenAI spent $1.2 million to get AI to find 948 ways to hack Linux

Apple lets any app developer plug into the new Siri

One engineer says AI agents need their rules in code, not in prompts

Framer's design AI now edits your site while it is still typing

Developer Tools

AI agents turned a 7,500-page math reference into checked code

DeepMind publishes the code behind its math-solving AI, with a catch

Perplexity's Decisions API can now check the web before it answers

Together AI lets software agents retune its model servers daily

One brief. Every signal.

Funding & Business

Anthropic's third-quarter filing shows $17 billion in sales and slowing growth

Anthropic's real risk is a $266 billion bill it must pay either way

Google and Microsoft stop raising AI spending plans, and cloud stocks slip

Anthropic buys a biotech that had one employee and a lot of Claude

Policy & Safety

Ohio voters ban or limit data centers in at least 14 towns

The UK's £400 billion AI promise came from a report Google paid for

Anthropic's IPO filing says AI may soon speed up its own research

Google will honor a shared AI training opt-out; other firms can follow

Opinion

A second critic says the AI weight-editing paper mixes up its tricks

Hadley Wickham's rough math says AI prices cover the cost to serve

A blogger says AI editing another AI's brain is not a superhuman trick

Investor Hannah Xu says top AI labs now run on their own models

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