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Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
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Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index That's the same score as GPT-5.6 Luna (max), and just one point behind GLM-5.2 (max) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) - that GLM is 753B and that DeepSeek is 1.6B parameters, and Luna is size unknown but presumably a whole lot bigger than 27B. Qwen 3.8 27B is a truly astonishing model. Via Hacker News Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, qwen, ai-in-china, artificial-analysis

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What’s an Orchestrator—and Why Does Software Need One?
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What’s an Orchestrator—and Why Does Software Need One?

The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Everybody’s talking about the death of developers. I get it. The developer whose job was to write boilerplate or scaffold CRUD apps is done—a model can do that in seconds, and that developer is not coming back. But the […]

O'Reilly Radar — AI/ML
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders for large volumes of books from apparently price-insensitive anonymous customers, widely suspected to be companies looking to scan them for AI training (see my previous coverage of Anthropic's book scanning from June 2025.) 404 Media investigated with an AirTag! In July, one bookseller told me they…

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When AI Writes the Code, Specifications Need an Exit Strategy
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When AI Writes the Code, Specifications Need an Exit Strategy

The following article has been extended and rewritten by Markus Eisele from The Main Thread and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Open a repository after six months of spec-driven agent work and you may find a second system sitting next to the code. Requirements, research notes, high-level designs, low-level designs, implementation plans, […]

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NIST Proposes AI-Enabled NVD Overhaul After Cutting Routine CVE Enrichment
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NIST Proposes AI-Enabled NVD Overhaul After Cutting Routine CVE Enrichment

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking the cybersecurity community how artificial intelligence should reshape the National Vulnerability Database, more than two years after the agency began publicly pointing to automation as a solution for its growing vulnerability processing problems. The Request for Information seeks input on improving the NVD's "scalability, automation, interoperability, transparency, and utility." A separate NIST blog post accompanying the RFI…

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How to Contribute to PHP
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How to Contribute to PHP

PHP has powered a huge portion of the web for a long time now. It's launched untold numbers of careers and businesses, and many developers attribute their entire careers to the language. But when we find ourselves wanting to give back, it's not always clear how; sure, PHP is open source, but where do we contribute? How? I've run into that wall before. My immediate issue was that I didn't write C, followed pretty immediately by how overwhelming it felt to learn the entire…

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Markdown SVG upgrades
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Markdown SVG upgrades

I started building my markdown-svg-renderer tool in May, but I've since added enough features to it that it's worth talking about here again. It's evolved into my ideal tool for sharing Markdown transcripts that include SVG documents. Given my proclivity for drawing pelicans riding bicycles this is a problem that I needed to solve! The tool is very simple. Navigate to markdown-svg-renderer in your browser and paste in some Markdown to see it rendered... or save that Markdown to a CORS-friendly…

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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to this one: 27B is an excellent size for running a model on a reasonably specced laptop, and its predecessor Qwen 3.6 27B was impressive. Qwen's self-reported benchmarks for this model are eye-opening. They show a boost from both Qwen 3.6 27B and the closed-weight Qwen 3.7-Plus, which was one of Qwen's strongest models of any size as recently…

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How AI Agents Expand the Software Supply Chain Attack Surface
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How AI Agents Expand the Software Supply Chain Attack Surface

At AI Council 2026, Socket founder and CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh examined how coding agents are changing the software supply chain threat model. Agents can select dependencies, connect to MCP servers, install skills, and execute code with developer credentials, often without a human reviewing those decisions. The talk highlights three important developments: AI agents increasingly choose, install, and run third-party code. Existing security infrastructure assumes humans make those trust…

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Quoting Dario Amodei
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Quoting Dario Amodei

I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks. I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust. I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over. The causes of this go back decades and AI is just the latest iteration of it. I don’t think that a glitzy…

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