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Friday, October 2, 2026
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★ Must ReadGoogle thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground

Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.

“BREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face incident”
— Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus — BREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face ...

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“Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform”
— Hacker News

Trending on Hacker News with 446 points and 164 comments.

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★ Must Read[AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAU

Latent Space — [AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6. 1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decis...

Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week

Our DevDay coverage - the first pod on the DevDay lineup - dives in with the leaders of OpenAI’s CUA team and API platform.

[AINews] Gemini 4 Argon: GDM’s answer to Astra/Fable, with 1M output

... but you can’t try it yet unless you are “government users and trusted cyber defenders in the Fairwind Program”

Qwen3.8 Flash Next GGUF Benchmark: Q4 to Q1 Accuracy and Token Efficiency

Kaitchup — Qwen3. 8 Flash Next GGUF Benchmark: Q4 to Q1 Accuracy and Tok...

How AI Agents Evolved: From AutoGPT to Claude Code

The real shift from AutoGPT loops to coding agents you can review

Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data

It has been a bad month for federal government cybersecurity.

★ Must ReadAcademia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT

We catch up with RLM first author Alex Zhang, MIT PhD, on Jev, PhD masxing, and the future of harnesses.

“Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground”
— Tim Fernholz, TechCrunch AI
“Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT”
— Latent Space
“Google’s new Guided Vision feature can help you read the fine print”
— Stevie Bonifield, The Verge AI