The AI BriefOctober 2, 2026

@@thsottiaux: "Global reset landing tomorrow 10am PST for all paid ChatGPT accounts. Apologies for the slow start with GPT-6.1 Sol, it's now back to running at expected speeds after the massive load spike in the first two days."

@@bcherny: "Mods are absolutely insane. You can now customize Claude to work and look the way you want by just prompting it. Each person works differently, so there's no reason why everyone should have an identical Claude experience. Make Claude your own, and share mods as plugins so others"

@@karpathy: "We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks: Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for"

"Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM)."

@@mustafasuleyman: "We're launching the most accurate real time transcription model in the world... #1!!! 55% faster and 60% cheaper than ElevenLabs. Come build agents on our platform!"

@@GoogleDeepMind: "With a 1M token output limit, Argon adds a deeper level of reasoning to tackle long, multi-step problems in one go. Feedback from early testers will help us strengthen our systems before we roll out more broadly to developers, enterprises, and consumers soon. Find out more →"

@@hwchase17: "decision model season indeed said there'd be more entrants before long - now open weights too, nice work @ritakozlov + the cloudflare team your harness should be able to swap its decision model as easily as its main model"

@@ArmadinSecurity: "Armadin raises $255.5M in Series B funding co-led by @a16z and @accel to bring proof, not assumptions, to the organizations that need it most. Read more:"

"Introducing the Perplexity Decisions API. It's powered by pplx-decider-v1-27b, our multimodal decision model trained to output a probability distribution over a fixed set of answers instead of text. It costs $0.04/million input tokens and scores 85.71% across benchmarks."

@@emollick: "“We find that on medium-length, well-defined accounting tasks, frontier AI models are now faster and more accurate than junior accountants, even the best one in our study.” Eighteen months ago they scored well below human accountants Good discussion here:"