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What is climbing fastest across every source

OpenAI6.2xAnthropic7.2xGPT-6.17.0xMuse7.2xClaude7.1xLanguage6.7xDevDay7.1xGPT-6.1 Sol7.0xMeta7.2xCodex7.6x

openai/codex 0.159.1

OpenAI updated Codex version 0.159.1 to make GPT-6.1 Sol the default model in its bundled and Amazon Bedrock catalogs. ·

GitHub Releases3h ago▲ 180 to 2 across 2 pollsgithub.com

Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team

Anthropic's red team found that GLM-5.3 and Claude Mythos Preview achieved full control flow hijacks in 4% and 6% of 100 binary exploitation tasks, respectively, while earlier models succeeded in none. ·

Simon Willison2h ago▲ 13simonwillison.net

openai/codex 0.159.1

OpenAI updated Codex version 0.159.1 to make GPT-6.1 Sol the default model in its bundled and Amazon Bedrock catalogs. ·

GitHub Releases3h ago▲ 810 to 2 across 2 pollsgithub.com

Post-Training Leaves Behavioral Shadows on Unrelated Decisions

Researchers introduced Active Taskless Distillation, a method transferring capabilities using single-word prompts. In coding tests, this approach yielded a 5.34 percentage point gain on HumanEval+. ·

HF Daily Papers24h ago▲ 3711 to 250 across 17 pollsarxiv.org

PostHog/jeeves

220 points and 85 comments on Hacker News, linking github.com.

GitHub+ Hacker News14h ago▲ 171116 to 265 across 10 pollsgithub.com

JoasASantos/Offensive-Security-AI-Models

JoasASantos maintains a repository of AI models that are uncensored or fine-tuned for cybersecurity tasks. ·

GitHub+ Hacker News2d ago▲ 99110 to 414 across 33 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.159.1

OpenAI updated Codex version 0.159.1 to make GPT-6.1 Sol the default model in its bundled and Amazon Bedrock catalogs. ·

GitHub Releases3h ago▲ 910 to 2 across 2 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

OpenAI: 4.93OpenAI4.93Anthropic: 3.75Anthropic3.75GPT-6.1: 1.44GPT-6.11.44Muse: 1.36Muse1.36Claude: 1.35Claude1.35Language: 1.32Language1.32
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OpenAI4.93
Anthropic3.75
GPT-6.11.44
Muse1.36
Claude1.35
Language1.32

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: 4,505convaiinnovations/laya4,505Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1: 2,656Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.12,656abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF: 2,432abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…2,432Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infinite: 1,507Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infi…1,507XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR: 867XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR867Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0.1-8B: 527Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0…527
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convaiinnovations/laya4505
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.12656
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF2432
Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infinite1507
XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR867
Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0.1-8B527

PirateBench: score out of 100

opus-5-5: 91opus-5-591gpt-6-sol: 82gpt-6-sol82deepseek-v4-flash-0731: 63deepseek-v4-flash-073163
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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/

google-gemini/gemini-cli Release v0.62.0

Google released version 0.62.0 of the Gemini CLI. The update includes fixes for OAuth token handling, UI layout rendering, and MCP tool call formatting. ·

New release v0.62.0 of google-gemini/gemini-cli on GitHub.

GitHub Releases3h ago▲ 8github.com

New on OpenRouter: OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro

OpenRouter added GPT-6.1 Sol Pro, a variant of OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol model. It uses a pro reasoning mode for complex tasks but costs significantly more. ·

OpenRouter7h ago▲ 1openrouter.ai

GPT-6.1 Sol in GitHub Copilot

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol model is now generally available in GitHub Copilot for agentic coding and terminal workflows. ·

GitHub Changelog7h ago▲ 1github.blog

Claude partial outage

169 points and 143 comments on Hacker News, linking status.claude.com.

Hacker News10h ago▲ 6445 to 312 across 15 pollsdiscussstatus.claude.com

Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev

The source text lists titles for visual guides and experiments on recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and transformers, focusing on their accuracy and efficiency. ·

13 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking magazine.sebastianraschka.com.

Hacker News+ Ahead of AI13h ago▲ 1109 to 13 across 3 pollsdiscussmagazine.sebastianraschka.com

Claude Sonnet 5.5

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

Hacker News+ Simon Willison30h ago▲ 10265 to 329 across 4 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

JoasASantos/Offensive-Security-AI-Models

JoasASantos maintains a repository of AI models that are uncensored or fine-tuned for cybersecurity tasks. ·

GitHub+ Hacker News2d ago▲ 99110 to 414 across 33 pollsgithub.com

Claude partial outage

169 points and 143 comments on Hacker News, linking status.claude.com.

Hacker News10h ago▲ 7945 to 312 across 15 pollsdiscussstatus.claude.com

X voices

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

GitHub

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New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

KKKKhazix/AIHOT: 3,062KKKKhazix/AIHOT3,062yetone/magpie: 2,627yetone/magpie2,627dzhng/jevgrep: 1,770dzhng/jevgrep1,770mikehasa/golive-skill: 1,110mikehasa/golive-skill1,110feitangyuan/onetake: 979feitangyuan/onetake979ollaya-dev/ollaya: 974ollaya-dev/ollaya974
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KKKKhazix/AIHOT3062
yetone/magpie2627
dzhng/jevgrep1770
mikehasa/golive-skill1110
feitangyuan/onetake979
ollaya-dev/ollaya974

google-gemini/gemini-cli Release v0.62.0

Google released version 0.62.0 of the Gemini CLI. The update includes fixes for OAuth token handling, UI layout rendering, and MCP tool call formatting. ·

GitHub Releases3h ago▲ 8github.com

GPT-6.1 Sol in GitHub Copilot

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol model is now generally available in GitHub Copilot for agentic coding and terminal workflows. ·

GitHub Changelog7h ago▲ 1github.blog

openai/codex 0.159.0

OpenAI released version 0.159.0 of Codex, adding an opt-in feature that allows new input to steer the model during active responses or long-running code calls. ·

GitHub Releases16h ago▲ 5013 to 37 across 8 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. ·

GitHub24h ago▲ 36462 to 3062 across 23 pollsgithub.com

openai/mcp-extensions

OpenAI released a repository for building plugins that function as native features within ChatGPT. ·

GitHub23h ago▲ 36121 to 195 across 4 pollsgithub.com

PostHog/jeeves

220 points and 85 comments on Hacker News, linking github.com.

GitHub+ Hacker News14h ago▲ 171116 to 265 across 10 pollsgithub.com

JoasASantos/Offensive-Security-AI-Models

JoasASantos maintains a repository of AI models that are uncensored or fine-tuned for cybersecurity tasks. ·

GitHub+ Hacker News2d ago▲ 99110 to 414 across 33 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.159.0

OpenAI released version 0.159.0 of Codex, adding an opt-in feature that allows new input to steer the model during active responses or long-running code calls. ·

GitHub Releases16h ago▲ 7813 to 37 across 8 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. ·

GitHub24h ago▲ 71462 to 3062 across 23 pollsgithub.com

Data centers & energy

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Builds, power deals and the grid

Data-center and energy stories per day

Thu 24: 3Thu 243Fri 25: 20Fri 2520Sat 26: 1Sat 261Sun 27: 1Sun 271Mon 28: 20Mon 2820Tue 29: 33Tue 2933Wed 30: 0Wed 300
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Thu 243
Fri 2520
Sat 261
Sun 271
Mon 2820
Tue 2933
Wed 300

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

Free space optics: To the moon and back

Researchers are exploring optical communication for space applications. The technology's success depends on its ability to function reliably despite adverse weather conditions. ·

DCD8h ago▲ 1datacenterdynamics.com

Free space optics: To the moon and back

Researchers are exploring optical communication for space applications. The technology's success depends on its ability to function reliably despite adverse weather conditions. ·

DCD8h ago▲ 22datacenterdynamics.com

Hardware prices

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GPUs, memory, and what tokens cost

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

gpt-6.1-sol-pro: 10gpt-6.1-sol-pro10gpt-6.1-sol-pro:batch: 5gpt-6.1-sol-pro:batch5gpt-6.1-sol: 10gpt-6.1-sol10gpt-6.1-sol:batch: 5gpt-6.1-sol:batch5claude-sonnet-5.5: 10claude-sonnet-5.510median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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gpt-6.1-sol-pro10
gpt-6.1-sol-pro:batch5
gpt-6.1-sol10
gpt-6.1-sol:batch5
claude-sonnet-5.510
median, all paid models2

438 paid models listed; median of the 60 added in 30 days: $5.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.