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Issue #76  ·  October 12th, 2026
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The Brief

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.

Headline News
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momo5502.com
500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter

During 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.

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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.

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techcrunch.com
48 hours to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — hear directly from the people building what’s next

Less 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.

New Today
marktechpost.com
What is Decision 3.0? vLLM Semantic Router’s New Open Decision Models

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.

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marktechpost.com
OrcaRouter Releases OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 Cybersecurity Model With 1M Context

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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news.google.com
Grok Bot launches its own email address at mail.grokbot.com

Grok Bot launches its own email address at mail.grokbot.com    Pasquale Pillitteri

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news.google.com
AI Open-Source Bet Hits 86% as Beam, Mistral Ship [2026]

AI Open-Source Bet Hits 86% as Beam, Mistral Ship [2026]    shattered.io

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news.google.com
Microsoft Unveils AI Model Based on Qwen

Microsoft Unveils AI Model Based on Qwen    ForkLog

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theverge.com
Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI

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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Research & Engineering
the-decoder.com
AI agent teams waste massive tokens for barely measurable quality gains, research finds

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.

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the-decoder.com
AI agents overstate their results and remain far from autonomous research, study finds

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.

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the-decoder.com
ArXiv caps submissions at two per month as AI paper flood overwhelms the preprint server

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.

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theverge.com
Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating

I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular.

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the-decoder.com
Cheaper AI tokens are driving more demand, and that's Jensen Huang's best-case scenario

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.

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the-decoder.com
Microsoft's Nadella bows to Trump's language diktat on "Super Intelligence" and uses it to attack OpenAI and Anthropic

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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