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  number: 116
  headline: The Decision Stack Goes Corporate: Microsoft And Nace Pile In
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #116 — October 10, 2026"
  date: 2026-10-10
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  audio: /media/audio/2026/10/evy-show-116.mp3?v=20261010111614
  summary: "Microsoft ships a decision-scoring model, Nace open-sources one, Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B, and Cloudflare buys Deno — the agent stack shifts."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 25
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    Microsoft AI Releases Microsoft-Decision-1: A Qwen3.5-9B Decision-Scoring Model,marktechpost.com,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/09/microsoft-ai-releases-microsoft-decision-1-a-qwen3-5-9b-decision-scoring-model/
    "Nace AI Open-Sources Drex 1.5: A 9B Decision Model That Scores Options, Not Text",marktechpost.com,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/09/nace-ai-open-sources-drex-1-5-a-9b-decision-model-that-scores-options-not-text/
    nace-ai/drex-v1.5 (Hugging Face weights),huggingface.co,https://huggingface.co/nace-ai/drex-v1.5
    TypeSafe AI raises Series AI ($870M at $7.5B),typesafe.ai,https://typesafe.ai/blog/series-ai
    Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B (Hacker News discussion),news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023450
    "Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-Step 7B Image Model",marktechpost.com,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/09/alibaba-qwen-releases-qwen-image-2-1-turbo-an-8-step-7b-image-model/
    Deno is joining Cloudflare,deno.com,https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare
    Cloudflare acquires Deno (Hacker News discussion),news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019911
    REA — Reverse Engineer Anything,rea.tools,https://rea.tools/
    REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (Hacker News),news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50028275
    excalidraw/cli: Official Excalidraw CLI for humans and agents,github.com,https://github.com/excalidraw/cli
    franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen,github.com,https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen
    mrsarac/ff-tracking,github.com,https://github.com/mrsarac/ff-tracking
    Structure Tax: How Structured Output affects LLMs Performance,arxiv.org,https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12056
    OnTrack: Real-Time Monitoring and Intervention in LLM Agent Trajectories via Streaming Structure-Aware Optimal Transport,arxiv.org,https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12375
    Google Research RRSI Guide: Mastering Self-Improving AI Agents,marktechpost.com,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/08/google-research-rrsi-guide-mastering-self-improving-ai-agents/
    Recursive Self-Improvement through Multi-Agent Self-Supervision,arxiv.org,https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12176
    Memento 3: Model-Based Recursive Self-Improvement through Reflective Rulebooks,arxiv.org,https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11794
    I Pointed AI at 400 Years of Historical Archives,jessewaites.com,https://jessewaites.com/blog/post/i-pointed-ai-at-400-years-of-archives/
    Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite (Hacker News),news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019056
    "What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover (Tao's blog, by Thomas Hales)",terrytao.wordpress.com,https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/what-mathematicians-should-know-about-the-lean-theorem-proverquestions-of-reliability-and-ai/
    Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?,blog.janestreet.com,https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-use-autoregressive-diffusion-to-generate-market-data/
    Computers Cannot Make Decisions,wiki.cateat.fish,https://wiki.cateat.fish/art:computers_cannot_make_decisions
    Computers Cannot Make Decisions (Hacker News),news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029982
    MarkTechPost Open Source category (standing scout lane),marktechpost.com,https://www.marktechpost.com/category/technology/open-source/

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  > Microsoft ships a decision-scoring model, Nace open-sources one, Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B, and Cloudflare buys Deno — the agent stack shifts.

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