Xiami mimo-v2.5 pro MIT license surpasses Opus 4.5 on arena Amazing achievement.
MARKET TRENDS
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AIE Now Run by Agents Says Unreleased Talk
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AIE is run by agents at this point. full unreleased talk here
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Liquid AI showcases at ICLR Rio with Mercedes partnership
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Rio was amazing, I had such a fun time at @iclr_conf @liquidai presented many papers, managed a busy booth, announced a partnership with Mercedes, and organized a (delicious) dinner event 10/10 would do it again!
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Top Tech Executives Embrace Demotions to Return to Engineering
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We are witnessing a fascinating talent migration in Silicon Valley. Top-tier executives are voluntarily taking "demotions" to get closer to the code. Rather than founding new startups or taking larger executive roles, CTOs from major tech giants are stepping down to become
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Startup Investment Misalignment: Building for Demo Days, Not Workers
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41% of startup investment going into areas workers don't want automated is a market signal that founders are building for demo day, not for the person doing the job.
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Timing Compression: The Real Shift in AI Development
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The seismic shift framing has been used enough times in the last three years that it's lost some signal. What's different here is the timing compression, not any single capability.
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USA China AGI Progress vs Europe Regulation Disparities
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USA and China: "Here is our new proto AGI model, that can cure cancer and automate reserach at never seen scale!" Europe: "eMojIs cAn bE bAd, tOO! (so we detect misusage of emojis )"
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MIT study questions AI automation ROI amid massive capex spending
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MIT finding AI automation only economically viable in 23% of vision-primary roles sits in direct tension with $740B in capex and 92,000 layoffs. Those two things cannot both be rational at the same time.
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GPT-5.5 Spud shipped, monthly LLM cadence prediction confirmed
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Already happened. Spud shipped as GPT-5.5 six days ago, one week after Opus 4.7. The monthly cadence prediction was right, the timeline was just tighter than expected.
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Usage-Based Billing Transition Impact on Infrastructure Decisions
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The transition to usage billing isn't inherently bad. It's just painful for the people who made infrastructure decisions based on pricing that no longer exists.