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500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter
Leading today: 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter. Also in this issue: Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?; 48 hours to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — hear directly from the people building what’s next. 15 stories in total, selected automatically from 35 candidates across the day's feeds.

| 1 | momo5502.com 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooterDuring the last 3 months, I spent some of my time and tokens decompiling a popular first-person shooter. The goal was not to reach a simple proof-of-concept state. |
| 2 | techcrunch.com Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date. |
| 3 | techcrunch.com 48 hours to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — hear directly from the people building what’s nextLess than 48 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in San Francisco’s Moscone West. Save up to $100 on your pass before prices increase at the door, plus get 50% on a second pass. Or score other deals. |

vLLM Semantic Router released Decision 3.0, 5 Apache-2.0 multimodal decision models from 0.8B to 27B. They answer choice, yes/no and score questions about text and images in one call, without generating text.
Read →OrcaRouter released OrcaCyber Zero 1.5, a gated cybersecurity model with a 1M-token context window. It reports 100% on Cybench and 95.8% on an evaluable CVE-Bench subset, priced at $3.00 / $7.50 per 1M tokens.
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Read →When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on.
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Teams of AI agents barely outperform solo agents but cost up to 5.1x more, according to Vals AI. Only one out of four tests with GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 showed a measurable gain.
Read →Epoch AI and Anthropic independently found the same thing: current AI models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 can run experiments but lack scientific self-criticism and genuine creative thinking.
Read →Starting October 2026, arXiv will cap submissions at two per person per month. Monthly submissions have doubled in two years, and in the cs.AI category they've grown more than sixfold.
Read →I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular.
Read →Data from a16z shows a Jevons paradox in the AI market: token prices keep falling, but H100 GPU rental prices hold steady or climb. Cheaper AI drives demand faster than costs drop.
Read →Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella now calls artificial intelligence "super intelligence" instead of artificial intelligence, falling in line with Trump's preferred language.
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