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Muon's fine-tuning lead runs out after a similar token count at every size tested
Across a CMU preprint's 30M-to-600M models, AdamW pretraining takes the lead between 2.4 and 19.2 billion tokens, and production models pretrained with Muon have seen trillions.
Marvell’s $115 billion for laser maker Lumentum works out to 23 times its revenue run rate
Priced at Marvell’s 28 October close, the deal comes to 18 times Lumentum’s annualized December guidance, just under Marvell’s own revenue multiple that day.
Tether and Circle froze Binance’s stolen stablecoins and had no reach over the rest
Elliptic counts 44% of the $6.43 billion as frozen or seized, almost all of it stablecoin, where Bybit’s 2025 haul held no stablecoin and saw 3% to 3.84% frozen.
Jepsen finds ParticleDB’s default mode losing committed writes among 96 issues
In versions 1.1.4 through 1.1.17 of ParticleDB, advertised as “Full ACID. 159K TPS.”, WHERE 4 = 5 returned the row with primary key 5.
October 2026Swapping the model moves AstaBench’s overall score twice as far on average as swapping the loop
On Ai2’s science-agent benchmark, a specialized agent takes most of its lead from one category, where its sub-agent Asta Panda adds 25.3 points to the same model at 15.9 times the reported cost.
Third Circuit rules against ROSS for copying headnotes it had no need to copy
The Third Circuit’s Sept. 29 opinion turns on the free judicial opinions ROSS could have used instead, and addresses generative AI only in one footnote.
Google's economy ATLAS measures how much people talk to Gemini about work
Its most-quoted figure, 30% of U.S. work-related AI use among computer and mathematical workers, is a share of Gemini request volume the released dataset reproduces only as 20.06%.
Federal Medicaid matching for non-pregnant adult refugees and asylees ended on 1 October
Each state now decides whether to pay for them itself, and North Carolina, New Mexico and California gave three different answers.
Micron earns more from each dollar of memory sales
Higher prices produce an 86.8% gross margin whose durability depends on undisclosed contract prices and future manufacturing costs.
September 2026Optical images show glacier motion; radar finds no progressive signal
The optical and radar analyses measure different signals, and neither establishes whether a live alert could have reached people before the flood.
Government weighs changes to Big Bend park work
Sept. 30 reports say the government may narrow work inside Big Bend National Park while ground disturbance may resume on a separate 61-mile Presidio County line.
The White House’s “Nearly $1 Billion” Rescission Proposal Itemizes $810 Million
Its posted proposal contains $809,501,022, while the legal clock depends on congressional receipt that the public record does not establish.
Polymarket’s federal status leaves New York a contract-by-contract fight
New York calls Polymarket’s event contracts unlicensed gambling; Polymarket says CFTC jurisdiction displaces the state, while two appellate courts have split on the questions beneath both claims.
AI incident reports need an audit trail to become comparable
The U.S. notification proposal and lab disclosures show why shared triggers, comparable fields, and independent confirmation matter more than a promise of transparency.