OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and Luna — and cuts token prices in half - The New Stack
OpenAI halved GPT-6's price to beat Anthropic on cost. But Opus 5.5 already reset the comparison, and nobody's run the two head-to-head yet.
Why mathematicians are hiding research results in zero-knowledge proofs
Google made a major breakthrough in quantum computing. To prevent the results from being misused, the company kept them secret. That backfired
Meta admits Muse's likeness to OpenClaw isn't a coincidence | TechCrunch
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-give-darpa-hands-on-access-to-quantum-system-new-maryland-site-2026-09-22/
How a team learns to trust a quote it did not build - The Loadstar
Four in five air freight quotes on cargo.one now go out without human review. Here are the six patterns that build forwarder trust in AI quoting.
We have run enough of these deployments to see the same six patterns emerge.
The Firms That Power Prediction-Market Trades
Industry insiders explained during the FOS Asset Class event why market making is not the same as the “house” in traditional sports betting.
Elastic fantastic: The deadly fluid of pitcher plants
Flies check in, but they don’t check out, thanks to liquid laced with stretchy sugars that keep them tangled up
The Quest for Universal Flu Vaccines
Modern flu vaccines have an average efficacy of just 40 percent, and they must be revamped each year. How can we make vaccines that are “universal” — both broadly-protective and highly potent?
influenza evolves so quickly that a novel virus emerges each flu season
inactivate viruses with formaldehyde
They bought homes at the peak of Austin's housing boom. Now they're taking devastating losses.
Homeowners who bought at the peak of Austin's real estate frenzy are eating huge losses or crossing their fingers for a comeback.
Tilda Swinton, Evan Rachel Wood and... is that Wesley Snipes?? Meet the Vampiric Council! 😂🧛🏻♀️🧛🏻♂️
GitHub - open-webui/open-webui: User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)
User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...) - open-webui/open-webui
https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-open-source-alternatives-to-chatgpt-you-can-run-locally
Label Leakage: The Bug That Makes Churn Models Look Brilliant - Dataconomy
The model scores 0.94 AUC on held-out data. The notebook is clean, the cross-validation is stratified, nobody touched the test
Food Prices Today: US Produce Price Charts from USDA Data
Food prices today for onions, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, avocados and strawberries: USDA wholesale and shipping point quotes with price charts, change against a year earlier, grocery ad prices by region and daily updates. Latest report 18 Sep 2026.
Manufacturing stack S1-S8
3 Polars Tricks for High-Performance Data Manipulation - KDnuggets
Almost every slow Polars script lacks in terms of one of these two: its expression engine written and executing in Rust across every core at its disposal, and its query optimizer that rewrites your work before any of it runs.
Inside Petal: Building the World’s First Petabit-Class Transoceanic Subsea Cable - Engineering at Meta
Petal, the next step in Meta’s subsea innovation, will be the first subsea cable to deliver petabit capacity at transoceanic distances, connecting France and the United States over approximately 7,…
The Curious Power of Punctuation
Louis Menand reviews “On the Mark,” by Florence Hazrat, and “Verb Your Enthusiasm,” by Sarah Kaufman.
‘I feel like I’m cancelling out her life’: the wrenching work of clearing out a parent’s home
From old love letters to pieces of string, our homes are stuffed with stuff. When it comes time to empty a parent’s home, sorting the junk from the memory can be overwhelming
From Paris to Hangzhou: The $9m Quest to Return China’s Lost Encyclopedia
For 140 years, part of the Yongle Encyclopedia sat unread in a Paris attic — a researcher’s keen eye and an entrepreneur’s deep pockets brought it back to China.
sudo Cheatsheet
sudo at a glance: running commands as root, credential caching, environment handling, sudoers rule syntax, aliases, Defaults, and logging.
The Craft of Sales: Why the Best Job in Tech Right Now Is the One AI Can't Do | First Round
First Round’s Emery Rosansky explains why AI makes great sellers more valuable, not less, and shares the habits and human skills that define exceptional salespeople.
America’s Greatest Hot Dog
The price and quality of the $1.50 Costco frank haven’t budged in 40 years. It’s the last—and best—deal in the country.
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
The problem
The Hierarchy of Money
Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, Efficient, and Unified Image Creation
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE We are excited to open-source Qwen-Image-2.1, an image model in the Qwen family that balances generation quality, inference efficiency, and cost. Qwen-Image-2.1 unifies text-to-image generation and image editing in a single model, with just 7B…
System Design In Depth
Deep system design curriculum — 18 modules, 200 units, 118 architecture diagrams, from-scratch algorithm builds, and curated video walkthroughs for senior engineers.
All Images | Public Domain Image Archive
Your very own art history cheat sheet
Everything you need to know in 5 minutes
An introduction to Jazz in 25 records
The following list offers an excellent starting point for any music enthusiast seeking exploration
A new cookbook pays tribute to two New Orleans staples — 'Rhythm & Roux'
At Bayou Bar, music and food go hand in hand. Which is why a new cookbook from chef Brian Landry and bandleader Peter Harris has recipes from the menu and stories from the musicians who play there.
In New Orleans, an empty building becomes a free store — and roller skating rink
In the Lower Ninth Ward, an old Family Dollar stands covered in graffiti. It looks abandoned. But inside, it's a treasure trove — clothing, home goods, toys and books. And everything is free.
The AI Bubble Fault Line May Run Through SoftBank’s Balance Sheet
And How Athene Quietly Bet 50% of its Surplus on Softbank’s OpenAI stake
Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate: A Real-Time Interpretation Model That Cuts Average Lag to 2.3 Seconds Across 60 Languages…
Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate cuts average lag to 2.3 seconds across 60 languages, adding speaker diarization, bilingual display, and translation.
Terraform Industries
Sunlight into methane for fracking prices
Japan’s Quiet Monopoly Inside Every Robot Joint
Two Japanese companies control roughly half the market for the mechanism that lets robots move, and Chinese suppliers are closing in fast.
6 Famous Artworks That Are Lost Forever | TheCollector
Six masterpieces lost to history—from Van Gogh to Rembrandt—surviving only in fragments, photographs, and archival records.
5 Levers Drive CAC, Says Ad Pro - Practical Ecommerce
Hal Smith of H Street Digital says lowering customer acquisition cost on Meta and Google starts with the offer.
No, But | Dennis M. Hogan
Love it or hate it, improv comedy is neither dead nor dying.
We Bought a $500 Counterfeit Rolex So Good, Even Rolex Didn’t Spot It
The replica watch industry is in its “super clone” era. Following tips from murky internet forums, we bought three budget fakes that were good enough to pass as real—but ultimately disposable.
5 Prompt Optimization Strategies That Actually Improve LLM Output
This article covers five prompt optimization strategies such as: prompt optimization, prompt engineering, LLM output quality, few-shot prompting, chain-of-thought, structured outputs.
The Gas Turbine Supply Chain
Look into how gas turbines work, the challenges, the manufacturing process, and the supply chain involved.
How Thermals Constrain Robots, Chips, and Space Datacenters
Two general principles to help understand and defeat overheating
Antimony
Three countries mine about 85% of the world's antimony: China, Russia and Tajikistan. The United States imports 91% of what it uses, more than half of it from China, which banned antimony exports to the US in December 2024. The metal goes into ammunition, lead-acid batteries and…
The Dark Year
EMPs, solar storms and the forces that could switch off civilization.
The Variety Trap
Why Margins Collapse Where Product Variety Explodes, And How Assembly Can Win Them Back
In much of the West, the importance of these close relationships was lost, with competitive bidding and more transactional relationships becoming the norm.
In this model, vertical integration is not about owning everything. It is about owning the layers of the stack where outsourcing would slow learning, limit final integration or affect product performance.
Barge capacity
One 15-barge tow on the lower Mississippi holds about 875,000 bushels of grain, the load of almost 216 rail cars or 1,000 trucks. Source: USDA Agricultural Marketing Service: https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/ReliableWaterwaySystem042025.pdf
Graphite Electrodes: The Six-Month Carbon Behind Electric Steel and Lithium Batteries
Electric furnaces make 30% of the world's steel, 46% of the EU's and 71% of the US's, every tonne burns through a graphite column that takes half a year to produce, and battery anodes are made from the same coke in the same furnaces.
The vacant building everyone complains about is cheaper to keep empty.
Have you talked about why?
My Descent Into Mah-Jongg
The game seems to be everywhere, all at once.