

ANC candidate list issues hit three provinces before deadline
timeslive.co.zaThe ANC May Have Missed The Deadline In Several Eastern Cape Municipalities
Joburg Polling: DA 42%, ANC 18%, MK 13%, ActionSA 10% and EFF 8%
The SRF were quite accurate during the 2024 election.
Nationally their polls suggest that the ANC is at 34%, DA 27%, MK 15% and EFF at 7%.
Claude Will Soon Require Identity Verification
reddit.comNew Agentic Benchmark Out: Claude Fable and GLM 5.2 Top Their Cohorts
You can read about it here: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/aa-briefcase
This is a solid benchmark from Artificial Analysis. It basically tests an LLMs ability to plan and execute tasks. And more importantly, it is a new benchmark that is not saturated, so no one can claim 'benchmaxxing' on these results.
GLM-5.2 Is The Best Open Weight Creative Writing Model
As Per Sam Paech's Creative Writing Benchmark on EQ Bench: https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html
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MiniMax M3 Is Coming Up
Some noteworthy things:
It'll use a similar tech to Deepseek Attention
It'll be multimodal
They're going to Open Weight it AND Opensource their attention implementation
Interestingly enough, Mistral Small is written as Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603. Their medium model will have 128B paramters. Either it will be a dense model, or a less sparse MoE than Mistral Small