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Polls close today on midterms that decide control of Congress. Early turnout is on pace to beat the last midterm and voting has gone largely smoothly; on Monday night the Supreme Court rejected the administration's bid to make California set aside thousands of ballots, and a federal judge ordered it to stop sending lists of alleged noncitizens to election officials.
MIT CSAIL researchers (including DSPy's Omar Khattab) report that GPT-6 Astra can read raw network weights and edit them directly, no gradients or training loop. It identified the game a 17K-weight policy was trained on from the weights alone, and by editing 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to fix a known reasoning-loop bug it lifted MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1%.
An updated IPO filing shows Anthropic lost $23.3 billion on $17 billion of Q3 revenue; nine-month revenue is up 13x to $33.2 billion. It also discloses $895.4 billion in committed compute and data-center spending, $70 billion of it due in the next 12 months, ahead of a Nasdaq listing as ANT expected later this month.
Ben Thompson on Apple's first quarter under CEO John Ternus: the hardware business is doing better than ever despite memory challenges, and the open question is whether the software story helps or hurts from here.
