Issue #032 — 2026-09-22

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL is a 1.02T open MoE with 42B active and 1M context; Xiaomi claims parity with Claude Opus 5 on agent tests. Open weights now reach the trillion scale US labs keep closed. Run its eval suite on your own tasks this week.

Hyundai opened a Georgia center to train Boston Dynamics Atlas for factory work and plans 25,000 Atlas robots, the Korea Times reports. The bottleneck moved from building robots to training them. Watch robot training sites, not robot launches.

Governor Abbott halted all state-issued data center permits until a grid and water audit finishes, CNBC and the Texas Tribune report. Power permits, not chips, now set the build schedule in Texas. Any Texas project? Recheck your permit timeline.

CEO Eddie Wu claims Alibaba's Zhenwu V900 is China's most powerful AI chip at 3x its predecessor; a 5-10T model is planned, AP reports. The launch is timed as leverage for this week's US-China talks. Track Qwen's next release for the 5T flag.

British Columbia sued OpenAI for not alerting authorities after staff flagged the shooter's account months before eight died, per the BBC. Courts are now writing the duty-to-warn rules labs never set. If you run a model, write your escalation rule now.