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Issue #81  ·  October 17th, 2026
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The Brief

90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

Leading today: 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks. Also in this issue: Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin; Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June. 16 stories in total, selected automatically from 61 candidates across the day's feeds.

Headline News
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mercor.com
90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

Trending on Hacker News (391 points, 325 comments).

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openai.com
Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin

Two engineers shipped Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks with Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10× growth in agent creation.

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ft.com
Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June

Trending on Hacker News (208 points, 65 comments).

New Today
marktechpost.com
Liquid AI Releases d1-ultra: A Multimodal Decision Model That Scores 65 on the AA Decision Index

Liquid AI released d1-ultra, a text and image decision model that returns calibrated probabilities in 1 forward pass. It scores 65 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index and costs $0.042 per million input tokens.

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marktechpost.com
Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Open-Weight MoE With 1M Context

Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight MoE model with 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context. It leads open models on MCP-Atlas and runs on 2 M5 Ultra Mac Studios.

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news.google.com
Claude Mythos 5 مقابل Grok 4.7: ثلاثة أرقام، فراغ واحد

Claude Mythos 5 مقابل Grok 4.7: ثلاثة أرقام، فراغ واحد    OrcaRouter

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huggingface.co
Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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techcrunch.com
Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.

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Research & Engineering
openai.com
How Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base

With ia.i, a conversational interface, and the IARA governance platform, Itaú is applying its AI First strategy to customers and employees — in one of Brazil’s most regulated sectors.

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techcrunch.com
An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, an...

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the-decoder.com
OpenAI's new Rosalind Academic Plan gives research labs up to 30 free seats for a year

OpenAI is launching the Rosalind Academic Plan, a free offering that's currently open only to research labs at US universities without an enterprise contract.

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arxiv.org
LIBERO-PeRM: Benchmarking Personalized Robotic Manipulation

Personalization is essential for general-purpose robots to transition into household environments and achieve true practicality.

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arxiv.org
Discovering state-of-the-art quantum circuits with large language models

Significant efforts are currently being directed toward the implementation of large-scale quantum information processors, but realizing useful quantum advantage also requires the development of efficient quantum algorith...

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arxiv.org
T2-z: Test-Time Optimization of Environment Latents for Robotic World Models

Predicting how the world responds to an action requires more than what can be seen: robots must account for environmental factors that are neither directly observable nor explicitly specified, from physical properties su...

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Project Highlights
rstation.ai
Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents

Trending on Hacker News (50 points, 19 comments).

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