Superintelligence Plots

According to W3Techs data captured October 22, 2026, 48.4% of PHP-powered websites run PHP 8.1 or older — versions php.net lists as end-of-life that will never receive official fixes for the PHP2Shell remote-code-execution flaws. The two largest stranded groups are PHP 7.4 at 19.7% of PHP sites (end-of-life since November 2022) and PHP 8.1 at 9.9%; only the 51.6% on PHP 8.2 through 8.5 can patch. With PHP running 69.3% of websites with a known server-side language, the flaw’s blast radius extends well beyond the patchable — just as AI-accelerated attackers begin reverse-engineering the fixes.

Sources & Notes

• Original story: AI Finds Critical PHP Flaw Threatening 70% of Websites | OpenAI Says Its Agents Weakened Internal Monitoring | China Tech Giants Order $35B of Nvidia Chips
• Data sources: W3Techs (2026). Usage statistics of PHP for websites (data captured 2026-10-22; per-version shares converted from W3Techs’ per-major-version percentages to % of PHP-using sites); PHP Group (2026). Supported Versions
• Notes: PHP 8.1 reached end-of-life 2025-12-31; only versions 8.2–8.5 receive security fixes per php.net. W3Techs surveys high-traffic websites; percentages are shares of PHP-using sites in its sample, not of the entire web. Version 4.x is plotted at PHP 4.0’s 2000-05-22 release date (no subversion breakdown published).

Among the 15 validated designs with paired surface-plasmon-resonance affinity estimates, 8 had dissociation constants below 100 nM in both labs, but only 7 estimates agreed within twofold and the widest gap was 50.6-fold. The cross-lab spread qualifies SI News’s report of 17 Claude-designed binders: the hits reproduced under the study’s criteria, while measured binding strength often differed materially and two LqhIII binders had no paired second-lab value.

Original SI News story: Mistral launches Voxtral 3 voice agent suite | Claude designs lab-validated scorpion toxin binders

Data sources

• Anthropic, scorpion toxin binder design dataset (design.csv)
• Anthropic, How Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins
• Claude Science et al., De novo design of protein binders against scorpion toxins with Claude

Of 605 deaths logged before victory, 351 (58.0%) came from ordinary monsters, versus 69 (11.4%) from the Ender Dragon; drowning (67), falls or the void (57), lava or fire (47), and other causes (14) made up the rest. The primary paper’s server-log breakdown shows that the dominant reliability burden in this 27-hour autonomous run was routine environmental hazards, not the final boss. This adds quantitative failure-mode detail to SI News’s report that four Gemini 4 Argon agents completed Minecraft without human help.

Original SI News story: Gemini 4 agents complete Minecraft autonomously

Data sources

• Faldor et al., A team of Gemini 4 Argon agents beats Minecraft (primary paper, Figure 13)
• Primary paper Figure 13 vector data

In the authors’ matched evaluation, estimated generation cost per million questions fell from $359 to $98 at 4B parameters, $439 to $121 at 8B, and $470 to $176 at 14B. That is a 62.6%–72.7% reduction, although the estimate assumes $2.50 per H100-hour and 10% utilization and excludes prompt prefill, context-dependent attention, and external tool execution. The result adds cost detail to SI News’s report on Hybrid Reasoning Agents, showing that their shorter decoded trajectories could materially reduce inference expense even after latent steps are charged as full backbone passes.

Original SI News story: 1. Anthropic 5% shares into public benefit fund. 2. MiniMax model M3.1 Flash with 1M context. 3. Stanford + UIUC + Together AI on "Hybrid Reasoning Agents".

Data sources

• Hybrid Reasoning Agents paper, Table 9 and Appendix G.2 (arXiv)