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Edition 032 — Open weights reach the frontier, robots grow hands, and the AI boom meets its monetization gap
Reflection's 501B Beam lands near the open-weight frontier, Claude Sonnet 5.5 hits 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, Qwen ships a full-duplex voice stack, robots gain new hands and factories, world models learn physics, and a16z data shows only ~2% of US households pay for AI.