ThursdAI weekly: OpenAI drops 722 math manuscripts, 100k agents simulate Toronto, Haiku 5.5 hits 10 cents
altryne · x · 2026-10-12
Overview
ThursdAI's Oct 8 episode recaps a packed AI week — the host had 48 topics queued and even built a Claude-powered "Tinder for AI news" to stack-rank them.
Key items
- OpenAI quietly pushed 722 math manuscripts to GitHub (372 result families) from a model nobody can access yet, with a thin blog post — dubbed a "slop grenade"
- Meta, with Stripe, Shopify and Walmart, announced a new agent protocol
- OpenAI opened the Decisions API; Mistral released Mistral 4 ("Le Chonk"); Claude moved into Google Docs; CoreWeave shipped RL Rollouts
- Haiku 5.5 pricing hit 10 cents; open weights reached 1T params
- nisten demoed 100,000 agents simulating Toronto: a working economy where every light is a person you can talk to; his Muse named itself Blob the Builder and built a Denny's; plus Minecraft running inside GTA
- Guest Maxime Labonne (Liquid AI) on decision models; an agent leaked its owner's bank balance to Slack
Full show notes and links in the original post.
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