October 8, 2026
Stories from this day
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Tech · 3 min readMistral Large 4: a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight model, weights due late October
Scale — ~1T total, ~49B active parameters per token; trained on ~4,000 Grace Blackwell GPUs over two months
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Tech · 3 min readAnthropic's Cyber Verification Program now has 3 tiers — and Mythos for open-source maintainers
Structure — Defense, Red Team, Specialized; all three include Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Mythos 5.1
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Tech · 2 min readPersonal Agent Protocol: Meta, Sierra and Walmart set sign-in rules for your AI agent
What — rules for a personal AI agent to sign in and act at a business; OAuth sessions, guest → read → write
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Economy · 3 min readWhy the KOSPI fell again — a strong won, chip bonuses and 2.6T won of foreign selling
Result — KOSPI 6,803.90 (−1.98%), KOSDAQ 898.43 (−2.34%) on Oct 7; foreigners sold ~2.6T won
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Economy · 2 min readGoogle's 3.6 GW Constellation deal — only a quarter is new nuclear
Size — 3,590 MW total: 890 MW of nuclear uprates (20 years) plus 2,700 MW of source-agnostic supply
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Tech · 3 min readLisa Su meets 14 Korean AI chip firms — AMD bets on mixing GPUs with Korean NPUs
Meeting — Lisa Su met Korea's science ministry and 14 local firms, incl. Rebellions and FuriosaAI, Oct 7
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Tech · 3 min readWhat is an NPU — how it differs from a GPU, and why it wins at inference
Definition — a chip for neural-network math only; it trades generality for efficiency
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Tech · 3 min readWhat is an npm supply-chain attack — one package ran 14 months without a warning
How — malware hides in a dependency; install scripts run automatically, so one npm install is enough
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Tech · 3 min readWhat is an open-weight AI model — and why you can't run a trillion parameters at home
Definition — downloadable trained weights you can run yourself; data and code are separate questions
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Tech · 3 min readWhat is OAuth — letting an AI agent into your account without your password
Definition — delegation by scoped, expiring tokens instead of passwords; RFC 6749 (2012)