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Mon 5 Oct · 11 stories · 4 sections

Frontier labs 2 items

Google will limit free Gemini users to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from Oct 9; AI Plus subscribers get 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash only.
Google posts DiarizationLM-Gemma-4-E4B on Hugging Face, an open-weights Gemma 4 finetune for speaker-diarization error correction.

Agents & tooling 3 items

Strata, an open-source runtime, runs Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) at a claimed ~100 tok/s on a single RTX 4090 consumer GPU.
WSJ profiles SwarmChasers, a 400-member forum including Transluce that combs the web for traces of rogue AI agents.
Brian Chesky outlines Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions and argues AI agents need an AI-native operating system.

Business & policy 4 items

Trump forms a federal Super Intelligence Force led by DNI Jay Clayton, with FTC, DoD, and OPM officials, to coordinate US AI policy.
Extracted system prompts show Meta's Muse compiles a page on every person in a user's life, with facts, history, and relationship tips.
OpenAI hardware VP Richard Ho details Jalapeno, its Broadcom co-designed inference chip, partly designed with OpenAI's own models.
Supabase raises $150M led by Singapore's GIC and acquires Turso, whose SQLite-based database is optimized for AI-agent workloads.

Also notable 2 items

Google freezes product-flaw submissions to its open-source bug bounty over a flood of invalid AI-written reports; update due by Q1 2027.
An improperly redacted filing reveals water and electricity usage at Google's Lincoln, Nebraska data center, local station 1011 reports.
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