weights, seeds, and hell chickens

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

My father locked me in a tower and it did not help.

1. GPT-6 can rewrite a rival model’s weights — and triple its math score
2. AI wrote the bugs that broke Postgres 19’s release schedule
3. The ‘hell chicken’ whose fruit-mashing jaws may have shaped flowering plant evolution
4. Firms claw back 23–33 cents of every tipping dollar through lower base wages
5. Kew’s new seed database tries to fix the bottleneck in ecological restoration
6. An executive order called ‘Super Intelligence’ has hobbled U.S. Census AI data