M5B Daily Recap: 2026-09-25
Daily AI Recap: Sep 25, 2026
Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments.
🗞️ Top Stories
- Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centershttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/crusoe-abandons-1-25b-plan-to-use-boom-turbines-at-ai-data-centers/: Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said its new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans....
- Meta opens early access program for new Muse featureshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/meta-opens-early-access-program-for-new-muse-features/: Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list....
- MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahomahttps://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-students-gain-humanist-lens-technical-innovation-tulsa-oklahoma-0925: The PKG Center for Social Impact expands Code.Tulsa experiential learning program....
- Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the webhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/some-supabase-customers-are-publicly-exposing-reams-of-peoples-data-to-the-web/: The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users' data when not configured or secured properly....
- Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPOhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/anthropics-founders-seek-voting-control-ahead-of-ipo/: Anthropic is asking its shareholders to approve a structure that would give its seven co-founders a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters....
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardwarehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/techcrunch-disrupt-2026-ricursive-intelligences-anna-goldie-and-azalia-mirhoseini-on-when-ai-starts-designing-its-own-hardware/: At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will take the Disrupt Stage to discuss closing the loop between AI and chip development Save up to $200...
- Perplexity Trains Its Computer Agent on Real Mistakes With Hint-Guided Self-Distillationhttps://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/25/perplexity-trains-its-computer-agent-on-real-mistakes-with-hint-guided-self-distillation/: Perplexity Research published a new post-training study. It trains a model inside Perplexity Computer on real user sessions, including failed ones. The method pairs rejection sampling fine-tuning with...
- Batching by Length Instead of Looping Item by Item for SLM Optimizationhttps://www.kdnuggets.com/batching-by-length-instead-of-looping-item-by-item-for-slm-optimization: We finish off our short series on SLM optimization with the third entry, focused on batching by length instead of looping item by item....
- Quantum computing’s “dark horse” just proved it can go universalhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260924020403.htm: Researchers have shown that exotic quantum particles called non-Abelian anyons can perform the full range of operations needed for universal quantum computing. Using 54 qubits on Quantinuum’s H2 proce...
- Why compounding containment is the real test of your AI strategyhttps://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/why-compounding-containment-is-the-real-test-of-your-ai-strategy/: I've been working in the AI space for about six and a half years. And one thing I can tell you with certainty is that the hardest part of any AI journey isn't getting started. It's what happens after ...
- Tool Calling vs. Code Execution for AI Agents: Choosing the Right Action Primitivehttps://machinelearningmastery.com/tool-calling-vs-code-execution-for-ai-agents-choosing-the-right-action-primitive/: Theory is easier to trust once it's running against a real API, so both examples in this article use the same tool — a getweather function backed by <a href="https://open-meteo....
- 7 Advanced Python Tricks to Level Up Your Coding Skillshttps://www.kdnuggets.com/7-advanced-python-tricks-to-level-up-your-coding-skills: Leveling up rarely means new syntax. It means learning what the language already promised you....
- The prompt that separates AI leaders from AI hobbyistshttps://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/the-prompt-that-separates-ai-leaders-from-ai-hobbyists/: Three in four board members rate their AI knowledge highly, and their CEOs disagree. The gap shows up in a single prompt, and the fix takes about 30 seconds of extra typing......
- Jev vs. LLMs: When AI moves from Generation to Decision-makinghttps://towardsdatascience.com/jev-vs-llms-when-ai-moves-from-generation-to-decision-making/: I tested TypeSafe AI’s Jev on 3,080 classification tasks to see how its accuracy, latency, calibration, and confidence compare with LLMs — and whether it works as a practical decision layer for AI sys...
- Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AIhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/lightspeed-targets-250m-for-new-india-fund-focusing-on-early-stage-ai/: The Silicon Valley firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period....
- CFD Correction of Open Tip Clearance Flow in a Compressor Cascade Using VAE Latent Space Adaptationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28558: arXiv:2609.28558v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: CFD predictions of open tip clearance flow in compressor cascades are subject to discrepancies relative to experiments, while experimental observations...
- Pistis Technical Reporthttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28554: arXiv:2609.28554v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce the Pistis model family, comprising 27B- and 9B-parameter multimodal large language models built on Qwen3.6 and Qwen3.5, respectively, and...
- Sep 25, 2026ScienceYes, Claude can do Nine Loopshttps://www.anthropic.com/research/yes-claude-can-do-nine-loops: Sep 25, 2026ScienceYes, Claude can do Nine Loops...
🛠️ Featured Tools
- Stable and Faithful Explanations for Knowledge Tracinghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28502: arXiv:2609.28502v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Knowledge tracing KT models predict student performance opaquely, limiting pedagogical action. This...
- SMILESGNN: Interpretable Clinical Toxicity Prediction via SMILES-Graph Cross-Attention Fusionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28553: arXiv:2609.28553v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Drug toxicity prediction is critical for reducing late-stage attrition in drug discovery, yet remains...
- CARE: Condition-Aware Representation Regularization for Diffusion Modelshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28561: arXiv:2609.28561v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion models highlight the importance of representation regularization for imp...
- SpaFactor: Lightweight Spatial Context-Aware Gene Program Modeling for Histology-to-Transcriptomics Inferencehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28563: arXiv:2609.28563v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics ST profiles gene expression within tissue architecture, but its cost and ex...
- When Should Forecasting Agents Reason? Behavioral Stress Tests for Reliability Routinghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28475: arXiv:2609.28475v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Forecasting agents increasingly combine language-model reasoning, retrieval, ensembling, and calibrat...
- TW3Cast: A Frozen Router of Lightly Fine-Tuned Foundation Models for Time-Series Forecasting on GIFT-Eval, Selected Entirely on the Training Splithttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28506: arXiv:2609.28506v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: TW3Cast is a time-series forecasting system that reaches position 3 of 130 entries on the GIFT-Eval b...
- PAWS: Policy-driven Agentic World Simulationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28547: arXiv:2609.28547v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Policy interventions propagate through public communication, institutional decisions, and stakeholder...
- BaseCamp --- An Agentic AI Framework for Automating DNA Sequencing Data Pipelineshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28557: arXiv:2609.28557v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: DNA sequencing pipelines, spanning quality control, alignment, variant calling, and annotation, are n...
- Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3 Action: A 7B Open-Weights World Action Model That Tops RoboLab-120https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/24/black-forest-labs-releases-flux-3-action-a-7b-open-weights-world-action-model-that-tops-robolab-120/: Black Forest Labs BFL, the lab behind the FLUX image models, has released FLUX 3 Action. It is a 7B open-weights World Action Model WAM for robot ...
- Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5-Decide: A 340M Open-Weight Decision Model That Runs on CPUhttps://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/24/fastino-releases-gliner2-5-decide-a-340m-open-weight-decision-model-that-runs-on-cpu/: Fastino Labs has released GLiNER2.5-Decide, a 340M-parameter open-weight decision model. It takes text and a schema of typed questions and returns str...
- 10 Solved Generative AI Projects to Boost your Profilehttps://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2026/09/solved-generative-ai-projects/: Projects are the bridge between learning and becoming a professional. While theory builds fundamentals, recruiters value candidates who can solve real...
- The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detectorhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/25/1145144/pentagon-ai-lie-detector/: The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budg...
- RAG Isn't an Agent — I Built the Layer Between Retrieval and Actionhttps://towardsdatascience.com/rag-isnt-an-agent-i-built-the-layer-between-retrieval-and-action/: RAG retrieves. Agents act. I built both separately, connected them explicitly, and ran the same nine tasks through all three systems.
The post RAG Isn...
- Your Model's MSE Is Lying to You: Part IIhttps://towardsdatascience.com/your-models-mse-is-lying-to-you-part-ii/: Autoregressive rollout and uncertainty propagation. Second in a series on probabilistic forecasting for physical signals.
The post Your Model's MSE Is...
- Partition Finalization in Pinterest’s Next-Generation DB Ingestion Frameworkhttps://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/partition-finalization-in-pinterests-next-generation-db-ingestion-framework-4c7da6e4cc8f?source=rss-ef81ef829bcb------2: Qianrui Zhang | Sr Software Engineer, Logging PlatformKanchi Masalia | Software Engineer II, Stream Processing PlatformLiang Mou | Sr Staff Software E...
- Aikido Security Releases Altar-1: An Open-Weight Security Model Pruned From GLM-5.3 to 328 GBhttps://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/25/aikido-security-releases-altar-1-an-open-weight-security-model-pruned-from-glm-5-3-to-328-gb/: Aikido Security has released Altar-1, its first open-weight security model. It is a compressed version of Z.AI’s GLM-5.3, built to run inside infrastr...
- 10 Things I’m Learning Beyond AI to Become More Technologically Fluenthttps://towardsdatascience.com/10-things-im-learning-beyond-ai-to-become-more-technologically-fluent/: Part 1: Understanding the technologies shaping our future
The post 10 Things I’m Learning Beyond AI to Become More Technologically Fluent appeared fir...
- For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure factshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/for-months-openais-agent-swarms-have-been-attacking-online-databases-to-find-obscure-facts/: The latest unauthorized agent swarms were discovered by researchers....
- AI Quantum Intelligence - Pic of the week 2026-09-25https://aiquantumintelligence.com/ai-quantum-intelligence-pic-of-the-week-2026-09-25: A serene autumn late September morning in the Canadian suburbs, where mist and sunlight intertwine — a cinematic reflection of quiet transition....
- Human Judgment Doesn’t Leave the Software Factory, It Relocateshttps://www.oreilly.com/radar/human-judgment-doesnt-leave-the-software-factory-it-relocates/: The following article originally appeared on Elevate and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. A software factory is a repeatable loop ...
- Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codexhttps://openai.com/index/proaction: With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster....
- Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes offhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/meta-is-putting-its-muscle-behind-muse-as-the-ai-app-takes-off/: Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agents's promotion across its own apps and ...
- Trading a Cloud Identity for Your Own: Workload Attestation on Managed Computehttps://netflixtechblog.com/trading-a-cloud-identity-for-your-own-workload-attestation-on-managed-compute-516d5a29b252?source=rss----2615bd06b42e---4: By Dhruv PratapIntroductionOrganizations that have been around for a while usually run two identity systems side by side. One belongs to the cloud pro...
- Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other testhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/astra-and-opus-just-passed-turings-other-test/: Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work....
- Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropichttps://techcrunch.com/podcast/metas-muse-just-stole-the-ai-spotlight-from-openai-and-anthropic/: When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into ...
- Ahead of U.S. IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible finacinghttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/ahead-of-u-s-ipo-british-ai-neocloud-nscale-secures-3-36b-in-convertible-finacing/: The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout....
- The Tests That Grade AI May Be Getting It Wronghttps://hai.stanford.edu/news/the-tests-that-grade-ai-may-be-getting-it-wrong: Benchmarks — the standardized tests that rank AI models on safety, bias, and reasoning — drive markets and shape regulation. New Stanford research fin...
- Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledgehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/unsecured-openai-agents-posted-53-user-images-on-the-internet-without-the-labs-knowledge/: AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge....
- Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark: Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models With Up to 3.13x Faster Decodinghttps://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/25/liquid-ai-releases-lfm2-5-vl-3b-dspark-speculative-decoding-for-vision-language-models-with-up-to-3-13x-faster-decoding/: Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark, a 279.5M-parameter draft model that brings speculative decoding to its LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model....
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- Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud dealhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/anthropic-to-pay-akamai-11-6-billion-over-seven-years-in-cloud-deal/
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