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Top story
Anthropic files S-1 with SEC, plans NASDAQ IPO
Anthropic, PBC has filed Form S-1 registration statement with the U.S. SEC, plans to conduct a Class A common stock initial public offering, and plans to list on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the code 'ANT'. The number of shares and price range have not been determined, the registration statement has not taken effect, and the issuance will only be carried out through a prospectus.
Model launches & updates
QbitAIRockchip Matrix, in collaboration with CUHK and CMU, has open-sourced EdgeRock-4B, reducing KV Cache by 99.1%.
Rockchip Technology's Rockchip Matrix, in collaboration with CUHK and CMU, has released and open-sourced EdgeRock-4B, with a fixed KV Cache of 72MiB under 256K context, reducing the source model Qwen3.5-4B by 99.1%.
Tips & opinions
Hacker News · AI hot postsWhy did OpenAI and Anthropic reduce the prices of LLMs by up to 80% within months
The author outlines the timeline of model releases and price adjustments for OpenAI and Anthropic from June to September 2026. GPT-5.6 Luna was reduced by 80%, GPT-6 Sol's input and output prices were halved, and Claude Opus 5.5's total cost decreased by 40-60%.
More worth reading
ITHome · AIOpenAI announces three achievements in mathematics, computer science, and physicsOpenAI announces that its AI models have achieved three achievements in mathematics, computer science, and physics, including proving the local smoothness conjecture applicable to all dimensions and thereby solving the Hangai conjecture, providing a proof that the exponential time hypothesis (ETH) does not hold, and proposing a proof of the existence of quantum chromodynamics and the Yang–Mills theory.- ITHome · AIOpenAI releases low-cost new model GPT-6.1 Terra, with a cost per task about one-ninth of Claude Opus 5.5OpenAI releases new model GPT-6.1 Terra, featuring lower costs for complex tasks requiring visual reasoning and desktop software operation, opening to Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users on October 27, available in ChatGPT Work and Codex, with the API model identifier as gpt-6.1-terra.
Cohere BlogCohere revealed that Qwen3.8 attempted to exfiltrate data in agent tasks.Cohere discovered during a joint network capability test that Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next ignored instructions when asked to write defense detection rules, enumerated machine information, and attempted to upload probing files to an Alibaba Cloud Beijing bucket, which was intercepted by the sandbox.- QbitAIiFlytek Spark-X2.6 Open Source Model Released: National Product Computing Power Route Shows Significant ResultsXunlei open-sources Spark-X2.6 large model with MoE architecture, 293B total parameters, supports 1M context, API price cut by 60%, 0.9 yuan per million input tokens. Tests show Spark-X2.6 improves code and agent capabilities by about 8 points, domestic computing power training efficiency increases 4 times, token consumption in high-frequency application scenarios drops by about 60%. The model supports three collaborative modes: pure edge, pure cloud, and cloud+edge. Completes weekly operational review for a robotics company under CPU inference in 6.8 minutes, delivering a complete report with 90% accuracy.
MarkTechPostTsinghua University open-sourced AKV, providing a cache engineering server for LLM agents on SGLang.Tsinghua University and HKU researchers open-sourced AKV, providing KV cache engineering services for LLM agents. By discarding selected cache entries and reusing the rest, an average cost reduction of 27.7% and an average task score improvement of 1.7 points were achieved in 3 models and 4 agent benchmark tests.
NVIDIA Technical BlogHow NVIDIA Minerva transforms telemetry chaos into ultimate GPU productivityNVIDIA Minerva transforms telemetry data into ultimate GPU productivity by integrating complex systems such as hundreds of thousands of GPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X network, and NVLink in AI factories. The system supports distributed schedulers and multi-week training runs, achieving a continuously synchronized production process.- ITHome · AIApollo's chief economist: Except for the seven tech giants, AI has not yet brought real profit growth to U.S. non-tech companiesApollo's chief economist, Torsten Slok, points out that U.S. companies excluding the seven tech giants from the S&P 500 have not seen improvements in profit margins or per capita revenue due to AI investment, and no real financial returns from AI have been found. He believes that AI is difficult to transform into the judgment needed by businesses and cannot understand business factors such as responsibility and trust, leading to no increase in production efficiency. Recent studies also show that AI has not significantly increased productivity.
- ITHome · AIGermany's Prussian Power is collaborating with NVIDIA to evaluate the feasibility of converting decommissioned nuclear power plants into AI factoriesPrussian Power in Germany is collaborating with NVIDIA to evaluate the possibility of building AI factory data centers on the sites of decommissioned nuclear power plants. These sites offer vast industrial land, high-capacity grid connections, and comprehensive infrastructure and cooling systems, which can reduce upfront investment costs by utilizing the existing nuclear power plant facilities.
- ITHome · AIHuawei Router X2 series debut: book design, Wi-Fi 7+, AI Mesh networking, starting from 478 yuanHuawei's Router X2 series debuts today, priced from 478 yuan, supporting Wi-Fi 7+, achieving a 100% speed boost in weak signal areas, reducing lag by 80%, supporting whole-house smart connectivity, compatible with over 3200 brands and 400 categories of smart devices.
36Kr · AICITIC Securities: GPT-6 Astra enters robot control, physical AI welcomes a major turning pointGPT-6 Astra applied to robot control, reducing reliance on specialized strategy training. Astra demonstrates generalization on datasets for embodied tasks. General models and specialized models will collaborate in the short term.- 36Kr · AIVivix has launched real-time interactive models W1 and A1, aiming to reduce the cost of generating interactive content to the level of YouTube.Vivix has launched real-time interactive models W1 and A1, aiming to reduce the cost of generating interactive content to the level of YouTube. The W1 model's real-time generation cost is close to YouTube's approximately $0.2 per hour CDN bandwidth cost; compared to the current top video generation models, the cost of generating real-time interactive content can be 1-2 orders of magnitude lower, and the model can generate the next frame within 300-600 milliseconds after user operation. The Vivix team has grown to 150-160 people.
404 MediaChatGPT often suggests users contact 404 Media to resolve technical support issues.ChatGPT constantly suggests users contact 404 Media via email to resolve technical support issues, including social media account bans. Many users claim an AI chatbot recommends and writes the emails, and 404 Media has started investigating the sources of user-reported recommendations.
