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Signal · 4 days ago
2026-06-19
AMD’s GAIA 0.21.2 added a Bash‑coding agent, while two open‑weight coding models—Kimi K2.7 Code and GLM‑5.2—were released, each claiming roughly six‑fold efficiency over Anthropic’s Claude on coding benchmarks. [YouTube]
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all briefs →- Sanctuary AI released a new demo showing its Physical AI robot completing a high‑speed wire‑plug insertion task with a reported 99.5%+ success rate, marking the first public evidence of production‑grade reliability for a dexterous manipulation robot. [source]
- Genesis AI unveiled Eno, a humanoid‑style robot that drops its legs and folds onto a wheeled base, proving that future bots don’t need a human silhouette to move and manipulate in real environments. [The Verge]
- Anthropic was hit with a U.S. export‑control directive on June 12, forcing the company to suspend public access to its newly‑launched Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign users, effectively pulling the services offline after just three days online.
- Anthropic pulled public access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after a US government order, ending a three‑day window that let developers experiment with the frontier models.
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full log ↗- 066af20feat(lattice): migrate AA Intelligence Index v4.0.4 → v4.1 catalog-wide (#311)
- 8a94fa1feat(lattice): add GLM-5.2 + Kimi K2.7 Code; re-verify top-5 speed/price (#309)
- f570cb7perf(scenes): drop full catalogs from /space-race + /autonomy client bundles (#305)
- 3791ae6Wave-2 polish: a11y labels, focus trap, dup-key fix, R3F geometry leaks (#304)
- 25d75b8Site sweep: SiteNav coarse fix + canonical/sitemap/robots SEO hardening (#303)
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