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What is climbing fastest across every source

Image-2.16.9xMicrosoft6.7xTeleOCR7.1xNvidia7.0xQwen3.87.1xXingChen-AGI6.9xLLMs5.4xOpenAI4.8xQwen6.8xRSI4.7x

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)

This 2021 article examines metacognition in AI. It notes that current systems are narrow, relying on specific tasks, large datasets, and significant computational resources. ·

75 points and 17 comments on Hacker News, linking arxiv.org.

Hacker News5h ago▲ 1010 to 92 across 16 pollsdiscussarxiv.org

XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR

A image text to text model from XingChen-AGI with 632 likes and 27.8k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face6h ago▲ 4605 to 632 across 13 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 Willison4h ago▲ 4simonwillison.net

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. ·

573 points and 243 comments on Hacker News, linking colo.to.

Hacker News6h ago▲ 7810 to 816 across 26 pollsdiscusscolo.to

XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR

A image text to text model from XingChen-AGI with 632 likes and 27.8k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face6h ago▲ 70605 to 632 across 13 pollshuggingface.co

SupersonicLabs/Julia-1

A text classification model from SupersonicLabs with 211 likes and 274 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face18h ago▲ 40135 to 211 across 37 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. ·

573 points and 243 comments on Hacker News, linking colo.to.

Hacker News6h ago▲ 9210 to 816 across 26 pollsdiscusscolo.to

XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR

A image text to text model from XingChen-AGI with 632 likes and 27.8k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face6h ago▲ 81605 to 632 across 13 pollshuggingface.co

Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infinite

A automatic speech recognition model from Edge0 with 1,253 likes and 19.4k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face27h ago▲ 69845 to 1253 across 54 pollshuggingface.co

Trending topics today: heat

Image-2.1: 1.18Image-2.11.18Microsoft: 1.09Microsoft1.09TeleOCR: 1.02TeleOCR1.02Nvidia: 0.99Nvidia0.99Qwen3.8: 0.98Qwen3.80.98XingChen-AGI: 0.91XingChen-AGI0.91
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Image-2.11.18
Microsoft1.09
TeleOCR1.02
Nvidia0.99
Qwen3.80.98
XingChen-AGI0.91

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: 4,169convaiinnovations/laya4,169Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1: 2,519Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.12,519abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF: 2,135abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…2,135XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B: 1,786XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-…1,786Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infinite: 1,253Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infi…1,253Altworld/Hemmingway-1: 748Altworld/Hemmingway-1748
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convaiinnovations/laya4169
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.12519
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF2135
XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B1786
Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infinite1253
Altworld/Hemmingway-1748

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 Papers8h ago▲ 20 to 4 across 5 pollsarxiv.org

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 Papers8h ago▲ 29 to 15 across 4 pollsarxiv.org

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 Papers8h ago▲ 689 to 15 across 4 pollsarxiv.org

ZooWork-ShopRanker: An Open, Preference-Aligned E-Commerce Reranker

ZooWork-ShopRanker is a family of open e-commerce rerankers aligned to shopping preferences using reasoning LLMs. The models are trained on judge-labeled pairs and evaluated on a new private-traffic benchmark. ·

HF Daily Papers8h ago▲ 662 to 3 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

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 Papers8h ago▲ 859 to 15 across 4 pollsarxiv.org

ZooWork-ShopRanker: An Open, Preference-Aligned E-Commerce Reranker

ZooWork-ShopRanker is a family of open e-commerce rerankers aligned to shopping preferences using reasoning LLMs. The models are trained on judge-labeled pairs and evaluated on a new private-traffic benchmark. ·

HF Daily Papers8h ago▲ 822 to 3 across 2 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: 1,376yetone/magpie1,376mikehasa/golive-skill: 1,022mikehasa/golive-skill1,022dzhng/jevgrep: 918dzhng/jevgrep918ollaya-dev/ollaya: 746ollaya-dev/ollaya746asokurasu/text-humanizer: 744asokurasu/text-humani…744yukitorido/short-video-generator-AI: 726yukitorido/short-vide…726
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yetone/magpie1376
mikehasa/golive-skill1022
dzhng/jevgrep918
ollaya-dev/ollaya746
asokurasu/text-humanizer744
yukitorido/short-video-generator-AI726

openai/codex 0.158.0

OpenAI released version 0.158.0 of Codex, adding features for terminal interaction, OAuth connections, and image handling. The update also includes fixes for sandbox issues on Windows, Linux, and macOS. ·

New release rust-v0.158.0 of openai/codex on GitHub.

GitHub Releases3h ago▲ 0github.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 Releases29h ago▲ 221 to 4 across 14 pollsgithub.com

admte/orc-claude-plugin

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

GitHub36h ago▲ 16114 to 153 across 17 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. ·

GitHub46h ago▲ 14158 to 430 across 27 pollsgithub.com

kaankiziltug/logo-design-skill

A new repository written in HTML with 232 stars in its first week.

GitHub48h ago▲ 12169 to 232 across 12 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.158.0

OpenAI released version 0.158.0 of Codex, adding features for terminal interaction, OAuth connections, and image handling. The update also includes fixes for sandbox issues on Windows, Linux, and macOS. ·

GitHub Releases3h ago▲ 0github.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 Releases29h ago▲ 621 to 4 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. ·

GitHub46h ago▲ 51158 to 430 across 27 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. ·

GitHub2d ago▲ 49289 to 597 across 27 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▲ 49216 to 918 across 27 pollsgithub.com

kaankiziltug/logo-design-skill

A new repository written in HTML with 232 stars in its first week.

GitHub48h ago▲ 46169 to 232 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: 3Mon 283
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Tue 223
Wed 233
Thu 243
Fri 2520
Sat 261
Sun 271
Mon 283

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. ·

DCD43h ago▲ 5datacenterdynamics.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. ·

DCD43h 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: $4.01. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.