The Brutalist Report

Venturebeat

• Nvidia’s new technique cuts LLM reasoning costs by 8x without losing accuracy [9d]
• MiniMax's new open M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning near state-of-the-art while costing 1/20th of Claude Opus 4.6 [9d]
• Most ransomware playbooks don't address machine credentials. Attackers know it. [9d]
• OpenAI deploys Cerebras chips for 15x faster code generation in first major move beyond Nvidia [9d]
• Google Chrome ships WebMCP in early preview, turning every website into a structured tool for AI agents [9d]
• AI inference costs dropped up to 10x on Nvidia's Blackwell — but hardware is only half the equation [9d]
• z.ai's open source GLM-5 achieves record low hallucination rate and leverages new RL 'slime' technique [10d]