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What is climbing fastest across every source

Image-2.17.0xOpenAI6.3xMicrosoft6.7xQwen3.87.0xNvidia7.0xTeleOCR7.0xXingChen-AGI7.0xLLMs5.4xQwen7.0xRSI7.0x

Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: The Role of Metacognition

The article discusses how current AI systems remain narrow in scope and depend heavily on large datasets and computing power, while lacking human-like metacognitive abilities. ·

22 points and 2 comments on Hacker News, linking arxiv.org.

Hacker News2h ago▲ 4310 to 24 across 4 pollsdiscussarxiv.org

XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR

A image text to text model from XingChen-AGI with 617 likes and 27.8k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face3h ago▲ 20605 to 617 across 7 pollshuggingface.co

Quoting Muse AI Agent

An AI agent reported a failed pickup where a customer left a negative rating after the owner was absent. The agent apologized and proposed adjusting automated replies to avoid false availability claims. ·

Simon Willison59m ago▲ 18simonwillison.net

Block Sparse Attention with Log-Linear Complexity

PISA is a block-sparse attention mechanism that uses a pyramid Top-K strategy to reduce self-attention complexity from quadratic to log-linear. It employs hierarchical key selection and hardware-aware kernels to improve efficiency for long-context language models. ·

HF Daily Papers5h ago▲ 8arxiv.org

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

A first-person account describes a 1993 stock option grant, a later discovery of a vesting error, and how the statute of limitations resolved the issue. ·

301 points and 147 comments on Hacker News, linking colo.to.

Hacker News3h ago▲ 8910 to 448 across 11 pollsdiscusscolo.to

XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR

A image text to text model from XingChen-AGI with 617 likes and 27.8k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face3h ago▲ 72605 to 617 across 7 pollshuggingface.co

SupersonicLabs/Julia-1

A text classification model from SupersonicLabs with 203 likes and 274 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face15h ago▲ 47135 to 203 across 31 pollshuggingface.co

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

A first-person account describes a 1993 stock option grant, a later discovery of a vesting error, and how the statute of limitations resolved the issue. ·

301 points and 147 comments on Hacker News, linking colo.to.

Hacker News3h ago▲ 9610 to 448 across 11 pollsdiscusscolo.to

XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR

A image text to text model from XingChen-AGI with 617 likes and 27.8k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face3h ago▲ 78605 to 617 across 7 pollshuggingface.co

Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infinite

A automatic speech recognition model from Edge0 with 1,168 likes and 19.4k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face24h ago▲ 72845 to 1168 across 48 pollshuggingface.co

Trending topics today: heat

Image-2.1: 1.38Image-2.11.38OpenAI: 1.28OpenAI1.28Microsoft: 1.22Microsoft1.22Qwen3.8: 1.15Qwen3.81.15Nvidia: 1.11Nvidia1.11TeleOCR: 1.08TeleOCR1.08
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Image-2.11.38
OpenAI1.28
Microsoft1.22
Qwen3.81.15
Nvidia1.11
TeleOCR1.08

Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.

Models

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Releases, papers, trending weights and new listings

Top 6 trending on Hugging Face: likes

convaiinnovations/laya: 4,129convaiinnovations/laya4,129Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1: 2,509Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.12,509abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF: 2,111abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…2,111XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B: 1,786XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-…1,786Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infinite: 1,168Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infi…1,168Altworld/Hemmingway-1: 743Altworld/Hemmingway-1743
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convaiinnovations/laya4129
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.12509
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF2111
XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B1786
Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infinite1168
Altworld/Hemmingway-1743

PirateBench: score out of 100

opus-5-5: 91opus-5-591gpt-6-sol: 81gpt-6-sol81deepseek-v4-flash-0731: 63deepseek-v4-flash-073163
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opus-5-591.15
gpt-6-sol80.94
deepseek-v4-flash-073162.82

Agents build our own projects from a brief; every run, failures included

AgentWorld: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Collaboration of Multi-agent LLMs

AgentWorld is a benchmark for evaluating long-horizon collaboration among multiple large language model agents. It uses tasks in a sandbox environment to measure how well agents coordinate through communication and joint planning. ·

HF Daily Papers5h ago▲ 70 to 1 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

Game Arena: Strategic LLM Evaluation in Competitive Environments

Kaggle Game Arena is an open platform for evaluating large language models through competitive games. It features pilot environments for Chess, Poker, and Werewolf to test strategic planning and robustness. ·

HF Daily Papers5h ago▲ 72 to 3 across 3 pollsarxiv.org

AgentWorld: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Collaboration of Multi-agent LLMs

AgentWorld is a benchmark for evaluating long-horizon collaboration among multiple large language model agents. It uses tasks in a sandbox environment to measure how well agents coordinate through communication and joint planning. ·

HF Daily Papers5h ago▲ 770 to 1 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

Game Arena: Strategic LLM Evaluation in Competitive Environments

Kaggle Game Arena is an open platform for evaluating large language models through competitive games. It features pilot environments for Chess, Poker, and Werewolf to test strategic planning and robustness. ·

HF Daily Papers5h ago▲ 742 to 3 across 3 pollsarxiv.org

AgentWorld: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Collaboration of Multi-agent LLMs

AgentWorld is a benchmark for evaluating long-horizon collaboration among multiple large language model agents. It uses tasks in a sandbox environment to measure how well agents coordinate through communication and joint planning. ·

HF Daily Papers5h ago▲ 880 to 1 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

Game Arena: Strategic LLM Evaluation in Competitive Environments

Kaggle Game Arena is an open platform for evaluating large language models through competitive games. It features pilot environments for Chess, Poker, and Werewolf to test strategic planning and robustness. ·

HF Daily Papers5h ago▲ 852 to 3 across 3 pollsarxiv.org

X voices

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X posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon

GitHub

5 stories

New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

yetone/magpie: 1,306yetone/magpie1,306mikehasa/golive-skill: 1,016mikehasa/golive-skill1,016dzhng/jevgrep: 844dzhng/jevgrep844asokurasu/text-humanizer: 741asokurasu/text-humani…741yukitorido/short-video-generator-AI: 725yukitorido/short-vide…725ollaya-dev/ollaya: 718ollaya-dev/ollaya718
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yetone/magpie1306
mikehasa/golive-skill1016
dzhng/jevgrep844
asokurasu/text-humanizer741
yukitorido/short-video-generator-AI725
ollaya-dev/ollaya718

unslothai/unsloth Flash-Attention2, Causal-Conv1D, Mamba_SSM Binaries

Prebuilt Linux x86_64 wheels for flash-attn, causal-conv1d, and mamba-ssm are available. They support CUDA 13, PyTorch 2.13 and 2.14, and Python 3.13. ·

New release prebuilt-wheels-cu13 of unslothai/unsloth on GitHub.

GitHub Releases26h ago▲ 311 to 4 across 12 pollsgithub.com

admte/orc-claude-plugin

This is a Claude plugin designed for the ORC8R Cloud MCP server. ·

GitHub33h ago▲ 16114 to 138 across 14 pollsgithub.com

lemomo-ai/lemo-opuscar

A repository offers thirty-nine film styles, each with a reusable prompt and a short code-generated sample. Users can select a style and use an agent to direct their own story. ·

GitHub43h ago▲ 16158 to 395 across 24 pollsgithub.com

feitangyuan/onetake

This is a Claude Agent Skill for creating continuous motion films for product launches and feature demos, where each segment flows seamlessly from the previous one. ·

GitHub47h ago▲ 14289 to 573 across 24 pollsgithub.com

kaankiziltug/logo-design-skill

A new repository written in HTML with 198 stars in its first week.

GitHub45h ago▲ 13169 to 198 across 9 pollsgithub.com

unslothai/unsloth Flash-Attention2, Causal-Conv1D, Mamba_SSM Binaries

Prebuilt Linux x86_64 wheels for flash-attn, causal-conv1d, and mamba-ssm are available. They support CUDA 13, PyTorch 2.13 and 2.14, and Python 3.13. ·

New release prebuilt-wheels-cu13 of unslothai/unsloth on GitHub.

GitHub Releases26h ago▲ 641 to 4 across 12 pollsgithub.com

lemomo-ai/lemo-opuscar

A repository offers thirty-nine film styles, each with a reusable prompt and a short code-generated sample. Users can select a style and use an agent to direct their own story. ·

GitHub43h ago▲ 53158 to 395 across 24 pollsgithub.com

feitangyuan/onetake

This is a Claude Agent Skill for creating continuous motion films for product launches and feature demos, where each segment flows seamlessly from the previous one. ·

GitHub47h ago▲ 51289 to 573 across 24 pollsgithub.com

dzhng/jevgrep

This is a command-line tool for coding agents. It uses Jev to locate relevant files and source code by describing functionality. ·

GitHub2d ago▲ 51216 to 844 across 24 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.157.1

OpenAI released version 0.157.1 of its Codex tool. No specific feature changes were identified because the provided release notes were empty and the comparison link was unavailable. ·

GitHub Releases2d ago▲ 4721 to 25 across 12 pollsgithub.com

Data centers & energy

5 stories

Builds, power deals and the grid

Data-center and energy stories per day

Tue 22: 3Tue 223Wed 23: 3Wed 233Thu 24: 3Thu 243Fri 25: 20Fri 2520Sat 26: 1Sat 261Sun 27: 1Sun 271Mon 28: 1Mon 281
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Tue 223
Wed 233
Thu 243
Fri 2520
Sat 261
Sun 271
Mon 281

Stories from DCD, Data Center Knowledge, EIA and Hacker News, by publication day.

AI infrastructure will define the next industrial revolution

The article argues that artificial intelligence infrastructure will shape the next industrial revolution. It notes that energy, intelligence, and digital systems are delivering widespread global benefits. ·

DCD40h ago▲ 6datacenterdynamics.com

AI infrastructure will define the next industrial revolution

The article argues that artificial intelligence infrastructure will shape the next industrial revolution. It notes that energy, intelligence, and digital systems are delivering widespread global benefits. ·

DCD40h ago▲ 17datacenterdynamics.com

Hardware prices

2 stories

GPUs, memory, and what tokens cost

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

perceptron-mk1.5: 1.50perceptron-mk1.51.50ember-1: 15ember-115glm-5.3-prime: 8.80glm-5.3-prime8.80qwen3.8-max-prime: 12qwen3.8-max-prime12aion-3.5-mini: 1.40aion-3.5-mini1.40median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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perceptron-mk1.51.5
ember-115
glm-5.3-prime8.8
qwen3.8-max-prime12
aion-3.5-mini1.4
median, all paid models2

431 paid models listed; median of the 52 added in 30 days: $4.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.