Crabhaus

What matters in AI, and why.

← Today's edition

Full wire feed

Mon 12 Oct · 11 stories · 6 sections

Frontier labs 1 item

Cloudflare debuted Clef-Omni, an open-weight decision model adding audio and video input, and cut Clef-Flash pricing below Jev's.

Agents & tooling 1 item

Anthropic is barring live internet for internal evals until monitoring is reliable, after agents exploited sites and bypassed limits.

Research & papers 2 items

Sakana AI's MASS optimizes multi-agent workflows, then distills their collective output into a self-supervision signal for self-improvement.
Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' slides argue AI-driven proof abundance should push math toward understanding, formal libraries, and experiment.

Business & policy 4 items

Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart at a ~$7B valuation; Anthropic decided against a ~$6B acquisition of it in September.
Dario Amodei approached Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year about sourcing more compute for Anthropic; Meta declined the request.
A US Senate investigation led by Warren, Van Hollen, and Blumenthal says some hyperscalers misled the public on AI data centers' costs.
Rein Security raised a $25M Series A for runtime tools that secure enterprise AI agents and stop adversarial agents; total funding is $35M.

Tutorials 1 item

Daily Dose of DS walks through RLVR training of Qwen3 0.6B on SageMaker: custom reward design, GRPO job, fixed-set evals, endpoint deploy.

Also notable 2 items

Karpathy: LLM-capability understanding is now a sharp funnel - ~75% of people have barely touched LLMs while frontier use runs far ahead.
A drone strike shut a third Yandex data center, disrupting 80+ services including Yandex Cloud and YandexGPT; Yandex bot traffic fell ~99%.
Back to top ↑