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GGUF is a file format, GPTQ and AWQ are algorithms. At 4 bits, each attacks the outlier problem differently. Anatomy of three constructions, from GPTQ's Hessian to GGUF's k-quants, and of what the choice of format decides for you.
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10 gigawatts 'secured years ahead of schedule', 0.3 gigawatt plugged in at Abilene. Behind OpenAI's comeback in AI coding, a compute bet that must be read in three states: the secured, the built, the plugged-in. And a subscription economics that agents cracked open.
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On July 8, 2026, OpenAI disavowed SWE-Bench Pro: ~30% broken tasks. It is the third reference instrument declared dead in three generations. Anatomy of a metrology crisis: noise ceiling, contamination, and a harness effect worth a whole model generation.
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On July 8, 2026, OpenAI disavowed the reference benchmark for agentic coding. On the 9th, it merged Codex into the ChatGPT app and launched GPT-5.6. Behind the sequence, a comeback that turns less on intelligence than on prices, subscriptions and the harness.
