DeepSeek dominates the news cycle with the long-awaited V4 release — two models, 1M-token context, MIT license, and a technical report that researchers are calling one of the year's most important. Meanwhile, Qwen 3.6 27B quietly ties Sonnet 4.6 on agentic benchmarks at a fraction of the size, and Xiaomi's MiMo 2.5 Pro enters the open-weights race.
read briefing →A Newcomer review of 13 major polls — from Pew, Gallup, Quinnipiac, YouGov, and others — paints an unambiguous picture: American public opinion on AI has shifted hard negative, and it's not recovering. The Stanford AI Index finds that 73% of experts believe AI will have positive long-term effects on jobs. Only 23% of the public agrees. On the economy, the gap is 69% versus 21%. Gen Z, supposedly the generation that grew up comfortable with technology, has seen excitement about AI collapse from 36% to 22% in a…
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