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Meta finally joins the frontier-AI race with Muse Wonder as OpenAI ships GPT-6's Intelligent UI and Anthropic brings Claude into Google Docs. Plus Sean Goedecke on software's coming centaur decades, OpenAI's 372-proof math dump divides mathematicians, Ray Dalio says the AI bubble is nearing its pop, Denver advances affordable housing and censures a school board VP, and a wildcard: MIT finds a star slowly devouring its brown-dwarf companion.

Ten items on frontier-model launches, AI's economics and engineering effects, Denver civic news, and a slow-motion stellar meal.

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Russell Brandom, TechCrunch · Oct 12

Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder

Meta's Superintelligence Lab shipped Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier-class AI models for agents.

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OpenAI · Oct 7

GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

OpenAI rolled GPT-6 out to all ChatGPT tiers with Intelligent UI, embedding interactive charts and tools in replies.

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Anthropic · Oct 6

Claude now works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Anthropic launched a public beta letting Claude edit and create Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files directly.

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Matthias Bastian, The Decoder · Oct 7

OpenAI dumps 372 AI-generated math proofs on GitHub, telling the academic world to keep up

OpenAI posted 372 AI-generated math results on GitHub, drawing mixed reactions from mathematicians over rigor and understanding.

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Sean Goedecke · Oct 10

Software's centaur age may last decades

Argues human-AI pairing in software engineering could persist for a decade or two, as in chess's centaur era.

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Latent Space · Oct 10

Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub

Podcast with DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub's Sal Candido on why protein structure prediction remains unsolved after AlphaFold.

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David Jagielski, The Motley Fool · Oct 12

Ray Dalio Says This Is When the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Bubble Could Pop

Ray Dalio warns rising debt and interest rates could burst the AI spending bubble as leverage builds.

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Priya Choudhury, Hoodline · Oct 6

Denver Taps $6.3M State Grant To Build 82 Condos Near Denver Health

Denver will pass a $6.3 million state grant to build 82 affordable for-sale condos in the Baker neighborhood.

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Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat · Oct 9

Denver school board censures Monica Hunter after investigation into alleged antisemitic language

Denver's school board censured Vice President Monica Hunter after an investigation into alleged antisemitic remarks about a colleague.

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Wildcard · Jennifer Chu, MIT News / ScienceDaily · Oct 10

MIT astronomers catch a star in a feast that could last billions of years

MIT astronomers found a star slowly consuming a brown dwarf companion in a process that could last billions of years.