October 6, 2026
Stories from this day
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Tech · 2 min readTrump's Super Intelligence Force: the spy chief now runs US AI policy
Who — DNI Jay Clayton chairs; vice chairs from the FTC, the Pentagon and OPM. Reports to Trump and Susie Wiles
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Tech · 2 min readGPT-6.1 Sol pricing: $2 per million tokens, a fifth of Astra
Price — $2 input / $10 output per million tokens, one fifth of Astra; cached input $0.10
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Tech · 2 min readDeepSeek V4.1 Flash scores 81.1 on LiveBench — US-China AI gap hits 3%
Scores — DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 81.1 vs Claude Fable 5.1 83.4 on LiveBench; a 2.3-point (~3%) gap
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Tech · 2 min readChatGPT image generation ads: a US test this month, 1.2 billion users
What — picture ads during image generation and beside results; US test later in October with first advertisers
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Economy · 2 min readKorea's September inflation 2.9% — why it fell as fuel jumped 14.8%
Numbers — CPI +2.9% (Aug 3.1%); petroleum +14.8% added 0.56 point; core 2.8%
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Tech · 2 min readApple tightens macOS Full Disk Access because AI agents read too much
What — new controls on Full Disk Access; 'very explicit user action' required; no ship date
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Economy · 2 min readSamsung Q3 2026 earnings date: October 8, with 108 trillion won expected
Schedule — preliminary results October 8 (two numbers only); division detail in late October
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Tech · 2 min readWhat CVSS is — why GitLab's critical flaw scored 9.9, not 10
Definition — a 0–10 severity scale run by FIRST; v3.1 dominant, v4.0 released 2023
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Tech · 3 min readWhat a sandbox is — AI agents escape through the one door left open
Definition — isolation that keeps damage inside the box; the basis of browsers and mobile apps
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Tech · 2 min readWhat mixture of experts (MoE) is — how a 125B model runs on a gaming GPU
Structure — many 'experts' plus a router that picks a few per token: big in total, small in compute