The Neural Daily 2026-09-28: Super Intelligence & Digital Avatars
From White House dinners with "Super Intelligence" to the "uncanny valley" of Gemini 3.8's 3D avatars, we dive into the high-stakes intersection of AI, geopolitics, and corporate land grabs. Plus, we break down the "Trust Paradox" of GPT-6 Astra in the legal field and get gritty in Hackers' Corner with VRAM scarcity and the rise of "basement compute." Topics covered: GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic, Gemini 3.8, Gemini 3.8 Live, Astra for Law, MentalHealthBench, Ollama, DeepSeek-R1, Qwen-Coder, vLLM, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, OpenShell, NVIDIA Sentry
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