Diffusion LLMs hit 1,068 tokens/s as MiniMax claims 70% cheaper agents - AIskimIQ Daily Brief - 2026-10-20

AIskimIQ — Daily AI News Brief · Oct 20, 2026 · 8m

Inception's Mercury 3 diffusion LLM reaches 1,068 tokens per second, while MiniMax's M3.1 Flash claims to cut AI agent costs by 70%. Meanwhile, Canadian news publishers sued Anthropic over copyright in Ontario court, and Anthropic backs a safety bill capping release blocks at $1 billion in damages or 50 deaths. — Podcast voice is synthetic and episodes are produced with AI workflows.