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What is climbing fastest across every source

OpenAI6.0xWorld Labs7.6xAnthropic6.9xClaude Sonnet 5.57.0xLong-Horizon Agents6.9xOpus 5.57.0xAMD7.5xNvidia7.0xLearning6.9xLLM4.7x

Claude Sonnet 5.5

191 points and 138 comments on Hacker News, linking anthropic.com.

Hacker News+ Simon Willison10h ago▲ 10265 to 329 across 4 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

Diffusion Reward Models

Researchers introduced DRM, a diffusion-based reward model that estimates reward distributions without fixed parametric assumptions. It matches or surpasses baselines across five benchmarks despite modest training scale. ·

HF Daily Papers4h ago▲ 842 to 11 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

KKKKhazix/AIHOT

A website framework automatically identifies trending topics and generates daily reports. Users can customize its sources and selection criteria to create industry-specific news sites. ·

GitHub4h ago▲ 83462 to 1096 across 3 pollsgithub.com

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.284

Anthropic released Claude Code v2.1.284, making Claude Sonnet 5.5 the default model with a 1M token context window. ·

GitHub Releases10h ago▲ 6630 to 43 across 5 pollsgithub.com

Claude Sonnet 5.5

191 points and 138 comments on Hacker News, linking anthropic.com.

Hacker News+ Simon Willison10h ago▲ 13565 to 329 across 4 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

KKKKhazix/AIHOT

A website framework automatically identifies trending topics and generates daily reports. Users can customize its sources and selection criteria to create industry-specific news sites. ·

GitHub4h ago▲ 94462 to 1096 across 3 pollsgithub.com

Diffusion Reward Models

Researchers introduced DRM, a diffusion-based reward model that estimates reward distributions without fixed parametric assumptions. It matches or surpasses baselines across five benchmarks despite modest training scale. ·

HF Daily Papers4h ago▲ 942 to 11 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.284

Anthropic released Claude Code v2.1.284, making Claude Sonnet 5.5 the default model with a 1M token context window. ·

GitHub Releases10h ago▲ 8730 to 43 across 5 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

OpenAI: 2.41OpenAI2.41World Labs: 1.88World Labs1.88Anthropic: 1.44Anthropic1.44Claude Sonnet 5.5: 1.42Claude Sonnet 5.51.42Long-Horizon Agents: 1.32Long-Horizon Agents1.32Opus 5.5: 1.30Opus 5.51.30
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OpenAI2.41
World Labs1.88
Anthropic1.44
Claude Sonnet 5.51.42
Long-Horizon Agents1.32
Opus 5.51.3

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: 4,336convaiinnovations/laya4,336Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1: 2,600Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.12,600abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF: 2,292abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…2,292XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B: 1,801XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-…1,801Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infinite: 1,424Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infi…1,424XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR: 816XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR816
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convaiinnovations/laya4336
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.12600
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF2292
XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B1801
Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infinite1424
XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR816

PirateBench: score out of 100

opus-5-5: 91opus-5-591gpt-6-sol: 82gpt-6-sol82deepseek-v4-flash-0731: 63deepseek-v4-flash-073163
Table
opus-5-591.15
gpt-6-sol81.78
deepseek-v4-flash-073162.82

Agents build our own projects from a brief; every run, failures included: https://cowerx.dev/daily/piratebench/

YuE2: Unifying Symbolic and Audio Music Generation at Frontier Quality

YuE2 unifies symbolic and audio music generation by first writing a readable score before producing full-song audio. Experts preferred its output over versions without symbolic planning. ·

20 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.

HF Daily Papers4h ago▲ 133 to 23 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

Diffusion Reward Models

Researchers introduced DRM, a diffusion-based reward model that estimates reward distributions without fixed parametric assumptions. It matches or surpasses baselines across five benchmarks despite modest training scale. ·

HF Daily Papers4h ago▲ 132 to 11 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

Claude Sonnet 5.5

191 points and 138 comments on Hacker News, linking anthropic.com.

Hacker News+ Simon Willison10h ago▲ 10265 to 329 across 4 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

Diffusion Reward Models

Researchers introduced DRM, a diffusion-based reward model that estimates reward distributions without fixed parametric assumptions. It matches or surpasses baselines across five benchmarks despite modest training scale. ·

HF Daily Papers4h ago▲ 842 to 11 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

Claude Sonnet 5.5

191 points and 138 comments on Hacker News, linking anthropic.com.

Hacker News+ Simon Willison10h ago▲ 13565 to 329 across 4 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

Diffusion Reward Models

Researchers introduced DRM, a diffusion-based reward model that estimates reward distributions without fixed parametric assumptions. It matches or surpasses baselines across five benchmarks despite modest training scale. ·

HF Daily Papers4h ago▲ 942 to 11 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

X voices

5 stories

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: 1,658yetone/magpie1,658dzhng/jevgrep: 1,473dzhng/jevgrep1,473KKKKhazix/AIHOT: 1,096KKKKhazix/AIHOT1,096mikehasa/golive-skill: 1,052mikehasa/golive-skill1,052ollaya-dev/ollaya: 894ollaya-dev/ollaya894feitangyuan/onetake: 865feitangyuan/onetake865
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yetone/magpie1658
dzhng/jevgrep1473
KKKKhazix/AIHOT1096
mikehasa/golive-skill1052
ollaya-dev/ollaya894
feitangyuan/onetake865

KKKKhazix/AIHOT

A website framework automatically identifies trending topics and generates daily reports. Users can customize its sources and selection criteria to create industry-specific news sites. ·

A new repository written in TypeScript with 1,096 stars in its first week.

GitHub4h ago▲ 11462 to 1096 across 3 pollsgithub.com

langchain-fireworks==1.7.0

LangChain released version 1.7.0 of its Fireworks integration. The update adds prompt caching middleware and fixes mid-stream read timeout classification. ·

GitHub Releases7h ago▲ 1github.com

langchain==1.4.3

LangChain released version 1.4.3, adding support for Bedrock Mantle chat models and fixing cache settings for fallback models. ·

GitHub Releases8h ago▲ 1github.com

KKKKhazix/AIHOT

A website framework automatically identifies trending topics and generates daily reports. Users can customize its sources and selection criteria to create industry-specific news sites. ·

A new repository written in TypeScript with 1,096 stars in its first week.

GitHub4h ago▲ 83462 to 1096 across 3 pollsgithub.com

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.284

Anthropic released Claude Code v2.1.284, making Claude Sonnet 5.5 the default model with a 1M token context window. ·

GitHub Releases10h ago▲ 6630 to 43 across 5 pollsgithub.com

unslothai/unsloth Laya Decision Models + Library

Unsloth added decision model support, a document library, and Apple Silicon optimizations. The update also enables local Laya execution and accelerates image and video generation by up to 4.5 times. ·

GitHub Releases13h ago▲ 553 to 14 across 7 pollsgithub.com

KKKKhazix/AIHOT

A website framework automatically identifies trending topics and generates daily reports. Users can customize its sources and selection criteria to create industry-specific news sites. ·

A new repository written in TypeScript with 1,096 stars in its first week.

GitHub4h ago▲ 94462 to 1096 across 3 pollsgithub.com

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.284

Anthropic released Claude Code v2.1.284, making Claude Sonnet 5.5 the default model with a 1M token context window. ·

GitHub Releases10h ago▲ 8730 to 43 across 5 pollsgithub.com

unslothai/unsloth Laya Decision Models + Library

Unsloth added decision model support, a document library, and Apple Silicon optimizations. The update also enables local Laya execution and accelerates image and video generation by up to 4.5 times. ·

GitHub Releases13h ago▲ 803 to 14 across 7 pollsgithub.com

Data centers & energy

5 stories

Builds, power deals and the grid

Data-center and energy stories per day

Wed 23: 3Wed 233Thu 24: 3Thu 243Fri 25: 20Fri 2520Sat 26: 1Sat 261Sun 27: 1Sun 271Mon 28: 20Mon 2820Tue 29: 0Tue 290
Table
Wed 233
Thu 243
Fri 2520
Sat 261
Sun 271
Mon 2820
Tue 290

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

Can Supercapacitors Smooth AI’s Power Swings?

Supercapacitors offer millisecond response to AI power fluctuations. Experts view them as complements to existing battery and UPS systems rather than replacements. ·

Data Center Knowledge13h ago▲ 0datacenterknowledge.com

Can Supercapacitors Smooth AI’s Power Swings?

Supercapacitors offer millisecond response to AI power fluctuations. Experts view them as complements to existing battery and UPS systems rather than replacements. ·

Data Center Knowledge13h ago▲ 18datacenterknowledge.com

Hardware prices

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GPUs, memory, and what tokens cost

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

claude-sonnet-5.5: 10claude-sonnet-5.510claude-sonnet-5.5:batch: 5claude-sonnet-5.5:bat…5perceptron-mk1.5: 1.50perceptron-mk1.51.50ember-1: 15ember-115glm-5.3-prime: 8.80glm-5.3-prime8.80median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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claude-sonnet-5.510
claude-sonnet-5.5:batch5
perceptron-mk1.51.5
ember-115
glm-5.3-prime8.8
median, all paid models2

434 paid models listed; median of the 56 added in 30 days: $4.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.